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For my mates 40th birthday we are going to butlins for a weekend.

unfortunately it is an 80's weekend, and he wants to go in the theme...

Any ideas.. remember I am not a skinny guy!!

Miami Vice, obv.

dear god!! I am not blacking up nor do I own a white suit...

Or


Or the best of the lot:

Seems like you are just looking for excuses not to go.

Mr T would be a giggle... lol


I want to go... will be a laugh... might have to have a look round a few charity shops...

Go as DLT and Noel Edmonds, looking slightly different.

I was thinking spandex and a long permed wig, but my mates said no..

Ghostbuster?

Ha... what a great idea...

I went off Noel when I found out he maintains his tidybeard by eating small puppies.

Ifg I turn up in a silly jumper, and no-one gets it, I will look a right re-tard... lol

My mate did that. In great detail.

the beastie boys were mentioned...

This would be easy to research. As a man, makeup is essential, voluminous clothing - puffy dress shirts, big hair, pleated trousers, big linen jackets in bright colours with shoulder pads and the sleeves rolled up, shiny pointy shoes, clip on earrings.

An 80s theme fancy dress party? At a Butlins encampment? I can't imagine anything more horrific and soul destroying, honestly.


Will there be a Daisy Duke?

Go as JR:

Go as a Tetris block.

Four cardboard boxes taped together, then covered in coloured paper.

Go as an Eighties Guy with terminal boneitis.

Boss Hog

Think you'll find that Tetris was more the 90's. This is the 80's for those who missed it:

For a larger gentleman you say?

meatloaf

Frank Bough

Yeah, 1989 was SO the 90's.

Are you now recounting when Tetris first became popular in this country or are you just quoting the copyright screen on the game which relates to Japan?

If you are recounting the copyright screen then fair enough it says 1989. However none of us clapped eyes on a Gameboy until late 1990/early 1991 and the Tetris craze didn't start taking off until then. Remember when Mean Machines launched at the tail end of 1990 they didn't cover the Gameboy opting instead for the GX4000. But when the Gameboy came onstream properly they dropped the GX4000 and covered the Gameboy instead. The Gameboys first proper Christmas was 1991.

I'm recounting when it was the start of the new school year in September 1989 and EVERYONE had a Gameboy, and was playing Tetris and Super Mario Land.

That none of "you" clapped eyes on one until later (indeed, I went to visit the UK and both a British kid boarding the flight, and my own cousin in Scotland were amazed by it) doesn't matter one fucking jot.

One of my top 5 R&M moments that. "Oh no! This is terrible! I look slightly different!"

Especially funny when Noel tries to nick the photo off DLT and Travis subjects him to a savagely characteristic kicking.

So what you are saying is that because something was available in 1989 outside of the UK it is culturally relevant to the UK in 1989. That's like saying the PC Engine was a popular UK console when it was never released in the UK!

Don't try and out pedant a pedant.

Unless you're going to this party I doubt he'd have anyone complaining that a Tetris block costume wasn't '80s' enough.

Go as chinnyhill10

And I'll go as Dudley. I feel I've earned his pedant crown.

go as a transformer.

See!? See how you suck up Nintendo's revisionism!

Tetris was reviewed by Your Sinclair in 1988.

I am not that camp!!!

And the title screen says 1987.

This is what Tetris was like in the 90s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH5OrYPhgNY

Chinnyhill in "wrong about something from the 80's" shocka.

Also - go as the General Belgrano.

And really, Tetris was just another obscure puzzle game at that time. Would never have taken off without the Gameboy.

Go as Mark Thatcher and don't turn up.

I know...

go as Mick Quinn and spend all night explaining who you're supposed to be.

I don't know who he is..

I have two words for you.

Truffle.
Shuffle.