So we have the bollocks, how's about the Sex Pistols??
The album of that name became a court action, not based on incitments to violence, drug abuse or home wrecking, but for the use of that very word on the cover of an album.
Quote:The case, heard in the central city of Nottingham later that month, revolved around the alleged indecency of the word bollocks - British slang for testicles.
The decisive evidence came from James Kingsley, a professor of English at Nottingham University and a former priest, who successfully argued that the word was accepted slang and had been in use for centuries.
He explained that a bollock was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "small ball". Bollocks was also 18th century slang for clergymen, owing to their reputation for talking nonsense, or, in common parlance, a load of old balls.
Kingsley won the day, the shop manager was acquitted and the Pistols' notoriety was assured.
As rude as the word 'bugger' may seem to other English-speaking peoples it's a very mild expression here in Australia. A whole series of media advertisments have been crafted with it featuring prominantly.
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