It contained more swear words than the most devoted practitioner would ever remember.It's the time of year when one might wonder what happened to that avuncular family figure whose existence was so reliably dull they passed into history almost forgotten - a little like Db2, IBM's flagship relational database that has faded from users' collective memory.īig Blue's system of choice for its mainframes and big Unix/Linux boxes is still very much alive and kicking and has even delivered a smattering of news in recent weeks, with a high profile attendee at the early December International Db2 Users Group European Conference telling us that select users were told of the new "Db2u", a set of containers for Db2 aimed at users exploring or working with the database in the cloud.Ĭonference speaker, Db2 DBA, and commentator Ember Crooks had posted earlier this year that "db2u sounds amazing to me" and that "db2u, conceptually, is a nearly cloud-native way of doing a relational database management system." But she also pointed out that "the problem I run into is that db2u is only available on RedHat OpenShift. īecky Barrow wrote that Profanisaurus "became a bestseller. Rogers Profanisaurus: Cooch, Danger Wank, Dew On The Lily Rogers Profanisaurus poke holes in a cheap door Letterbocks profanisaurus entry Rogers. A much-used technique for sexual phrases is to include them in a quoted passage from a non-existent Barbara Cartland novel.ĭavid Stubbs wrote that Profanisaurus "represents what you might call the maximalist tendency in obscenity". 4th) funniest magazine with regular features including Rogers Profanisaurus, Letterbocks, Viz Top Tips and more. The authors often take delight in lampooning political or media figures of the day, or illustrating terms with fictional dialogue between notionally respectable historical figures. Those familiar with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary might recognise some parallels with Bierce's style, though his lacked the overt obscenity.
Unlike a traditional dictionary or thesaurus, the content is enlivened by often pungent or politically incorrect observations and asides, intended to provide further comic effect. The Profanisaurus sowed the seed of vulgarity and double entendre across the. The book is published in the United Kingdom by Viz, and described as 'the foulest-mouthed book ever to stalk the face of the earth'. Urban Dictionary Plagiarist 1: Yeah but this is the internet and were faceless. Rogers Profanisaurus is a compendium of profanity, featuring the foulmouthed Viz character Roger Mellie, the man on the telly.The title is a word play on Rogets Thesaurus. Subsequent versions have been Das Krapital (2010, a play on Karl Marx's Das Kapital), Hail Sweary (2013, featuring on the cover Roger in a monk's outfit kneeling as if in prayer, and the title in Olde Englishe above an obvious and obscene reference to the Catholic ' Hail Mary'), and War and Piss (2018, a play on Tolstoy's War and Peace, with "over 20,000" definitions). Concept created by the writers of UK comic Viz which was stolen by Urban.
(Perhaps coincidentally, Oliver Cromwell is said to have referred to Magna Carta as "Magna Farta". The first actual book was released less than a year later, in 1998 ( ISBN 1-90), but the content had tripled with now 2,250 definitions this was followed in the second edition in 2002 with the number of terms covered growing to 4,000 ( ISBN 0-7522-1507-8).Īn updated version, the Profanisaurus Rex, containing over 8,000 words and phrases, was released in 2005, and a further-expanded version, the "Magna Farta" (a play on Magna Carta) at the end of 2007. It is a spin-off publication from the popular British adult comic Viz and features one of the comic's characters, the foul-mouthed Roger Mellie 'the Man on the Telly'. The Profanisaurus was originally published as a supplement stapled into the middle of the December 1997 edition of the Viz comic ( Viz 87), with 'over 700 rude words and phrases'.Ĭontributions from readers were originally published in the comic, and then edited into later editions. Roger's Profanisaurus is a humorous book published in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing which is written in the style of a lexicon of profane words and expressions.