Greetings.
Here's a challenge for people with clear memories (and ideally, 
documentary evidence) of the eighties. The Christmas edition of Radio 
Times had an article about recently invented words such as "minger", 
"mullet" and "bouncy castle" which the Oxford English Dictionary people 
are researching the origins of.

Here's the article:
http://www.west.co.tt/matt/bits/lost_for_words_rt.jpg
And a longer list on the accompanying website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/wordhunt/word_appeal.shtml

Some of the dates identified are unbelievably late, and will have you 
exclaiming "They didn't have bouncy castles before 1986? No way! And 
1994 for mullets? Come on!" The question is, can you come up with any 
earlier evidence of any of the words? (Be aware that it's not enough to 
prove that bouncy castles existed before then - you also have to prove 
that they were called bouncy castles at the time.)

I thought I'd made a breakthrough re "Doing a moony", because I 
remembered some 1980s toys called Moonies, dolls of fat blokes you put 
in the back of your car that would pull their pants down when you pulled 
a string. This post was going to be an appeal to Lister to search his 
vast library of Argos catalogues for Moonies on sale, but then I took a 
closer look at the website and found that the dictionary people had 
already discovered them.
http://www.oed.com/bbcwordhunt/moony.html
Basts.