OED Asks for Public Assistance

From the Guardian:

You might want to get your diaries from the loft, but did you by any chance go dogging before 1993? If the answer is yes then the Oxford English Dictionary would like to hear from you.
Or are you called Gordon Bennett and your name was being used exasperatingly before 1967? Did you call someone a plonker before 1966, a prat before 1968, a wally before 1969, a tosser before 1977 or a wazzock before 1984?
Were you the dog's bollocks long before 1989?
The OED is today enlisting the public to help them trace 40 well-known words and phrases. All of them are in the dictionary with a date of the earliest evidence of usage, but researchers want to know if the British people can do better.

So if you were the dog's bollocks before 1989, head here to assert your claim: bbc.co.uk/balderdash. Otherwise, you can just read the rest of the article from the Guardian here.