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  • Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

    John Mortimer's remarks in defense of record shop proprietor Christopher Seale against obscenity charges for displaying advertisements for Sex Pistols' LP "Never Mind the Bollocks" at Nottingham Magistrates Court, November 14, 1977.