This morning CP sent some scans of 70s MRNs featuring Laurie; here after the old Central Hall exhibition. He pointed out that this para was sobering for all of us who exhibit, which the first part is. However the second sentence is... well we've been there too.
So true.
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether the veiled suggestion of amputating parts of obnoxious small children would be edited out of this article nowadays if it were submitted for publication?
ReplyDeleteThinking back to mags from the seventies and eighties I seem to remember rather more razor-edged wit than seems permissible now; do we blame political correctness, 'elf and safety, or both?
There's no way this would get it now. To incorrect. Shame. All the articles are starting to look the same.
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