What is acceptable, nay encouraged, at a Gay Pride rally might still be judged obscene at a Sunday School.
You call someone up on the phone, a lawyer charges obscene fees, a couple of days later they tell you what the trademark status is.
Before the advent of personal technology, Hollywood enjoyed a monopoly on access and the obscene profits that came as a result of total control.
The BBC came under fire last year after Brand and Ross left a series of obscene messages on Mr Sachs's answering machine during a recording of Brand's radio show.
Apparently, a very stiff pay-for-performance relationship, paying people a near obscene amount of money if they succeed, actually makes them less likely to perform well.
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While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, who has studied the gesture's place in criminal jurisprudence.
Next is the primary tradition of Super Bowl Sunday: sitting on a couch eating obscene amounts of crappy food.
No American court since has banned a book for being obscene.
Somebody hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo.
Does this school district have an actual policy outlining the appropriate steps for suspending a teacher merely accused of reading obscene material without any proof whatsoever that this is the case?
He said the former was "over an allegation or allegations relating to indecent obscene publications" and the latter "over a claim or claims relating to the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889".
Steve-O, best known for his work on the MTV show Jackass, has a history of doing stunts bordering on the obscene or inappropriate in front of the camera.
In the film aptly named Wall Street, Michael Douglas played a ruthless buyout kingpoin who traded his way to obscene wealth using inside information.
To be found obscene, and therefore not protected by the First Amendment, a work must appeal to prurient interests according to community standards, depict sexual activity in an offensive way, and be wholly lacking in scientific, artistic, political or literary value.
This did include an obscene number of self-timer shots, long exposures and also a few 1080p video clips totaling around two and a half minutes, and absorbing around 3.3GB of data on a single charge should be sufficient for most users.
Facebook may have its European headquarters in Dublin but the social networking site has wiped a small Irish village off the map because its name is deemed obscene.
We get a lot of requests that may be grotesque in nature or they may be obscene.
In one particular extract, it says the paper omitted a punctuation mark, so that it appeared that the Koran was described with an obscene word, when this was not, in fact, the case.
True, he went back to prison for a year in 1983, as atonement, it seems, for making what for the times were obscene amounts of money.
That was when Microsoft forced its myriad Websites to adopt a system that analyzes content according to the degree to which it contains sex, nudity, violence or obscene language.
It was reported at the time that the singer had to move into a hotel as the intruders had sprinkled milk and Ribena over much of her flat as well as daubing obscene graffiti on the walls.
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