Roger's Profanisaurus
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Roger's 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 Roget's Thesaurus. 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".
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[edit] Influences
The Profanisaurus sowed the seed of vulgarity and double entendre across the whole of Britain, culminating in celebrated websites such as Fnirk.
The book has had a profound influence on the humour of the Grand Theft Auto series of computer console games, with terms such as 'The Clown's Pocket' coming directly from the Profanisaurus.[citation needed]
[edit] Publication
The Profanisaurus was originally published as a supplement stapled into the middle of the comic. Contributions from readers have been published in the comic and then editted into later editions. The first book was released in 1998 (ISBN 1-902212-05-3) with 2,250 definitions and this was followed in the second edition in 2002 with the number of terms covered growing to 4,000 (ISBN 0-7522-1507-8). An updated version, the Profanisaurus Rex, containing over 8,000 words and phrases, was released in 2005:
- Roger's Profanisaurus Rex: The Ultimate Swearing Dictionary (third edition, Viz, 2005, ISBN 0-7522-2812-9)
