IT'S NOT FOR US TO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO WITH THESE AWKWARDLY POSED PHOTOS OF SIR CLIVE SINCLAIR... BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO SHOW THEM TO YOUR DENTIST

If it wasn't for Sir Clive Sinclair, the gaming landscape would be very different. His ZX Spectrum was the biggest-selling home British computer of the 1980s.

However, the Spectrum isn't the only thing that Sir Clive done (not to be confused with Clive "Grandad" Dunn): he was also a pioneer in the field of calculators, digital watches, and ill-considered electric vehicles.

Here's a gallery of classic photos of Sir Clive, which you're free to do anything with - including showing them to your dentist, if you want.

Here's Sir Clive with his ground-breaking ZX-81 home computer. Can you imagine going in for your dental check-up and pulling this out? That would be sweet. It might even spark up some conversation between you and your dentist. You've been going to him for years. Time to break the ice.

Now we see Sir Clive riding his Sinclair C5 - the ill-fated electric vehicle, which is best remembered as his greatest folly.

​Perhaps you could stop your dentist just as he (or she - it's not the 1980s anymore, LOL!) tells you to open wide, and then produce this from under your shirt. You don't have to say anything: just show it, yeah?

Here's Sir Clive with a digital calculator what he invented. Perhaps you could print out this picture and leave it with the receptionist at your dental surgery. "Tell my dentist it's for him," you could say. Or just don't say anything. Your dentist is bound to see it eventually, once word gets round.

This picture again shows Sir Clive as most of us remember him: staring terrified into the camera, while holding some bits of electronic tat.

​Mid dental check-up you could play a trick on your dentist by bellowing suddenly, and then showing him this picture. He might be startled at first, but he's sure to see the funny side!

Here we have a more recent picture of Sir Clive, sat on a wall with two of his folding electric bicycles. You could have a lot of fun by scrunching up this picture, and putting it your mouth right before your appointment. Your dentist would find it there when he went in to have a look. Brilliant!

Here's Sir Clive with another 1980s mega-dude: Lord Alan Sugar, founder of Amstrad. There's no way your dentist wouldn't have something to say about this if you enter his surgery while holding it over your face and muttering wordlessly in a high-pitched squeal.

Here's Sir Clive with a golden calculator, or something. Perhaps you could show this to your dentist and ask him what would happen to your teeth if you chewed on it. When he's giving his reply, you could start shouting "SIR CLIVE!" over and over.

Now we see Sir Clive once again in his default pose: holding a computer or word processor or whatever that is, while looking deeply uncomfortable.

Actually, that isn't entirely fair: he looks almost happy in this one. Perhaps you could get your dentist's opinion on Sir Clive's emotional state. The best time to ask about it is right when he's started drilling.

Or maybe you could linger outside your dentist's surgery, and follow him home after he finishes work. Knock on his door late at night, and show it to him then.

Here's another fantastic prank you could play on your dentist, using this photo of Sir Clive with his miniature television. Blow the photo up to life size, and make an all-over bodysuit out of it.

Imagine the look on your dentist's face when Sir Clive Sinclair himself turns up at his surgery, rudely demanding to have a root canal, and knocking banging his cupboard doors!

This is the earliest known photograph of Sir Clive, back when he was rocking the combover look. What's nice about this picture, and of particular interest to your dentist, is that you can just see some of his teeth, as he attempts to peel back his lips into some vague facsimile of a smile.

​It's not his fault. It's all he can manage. Don't judge him for it. These are all things you can take issue with when your dentist looks at the picture, whether he remarks upon Sir Clive's teeth or not.

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