![]() 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). (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. ![]() One recent edition of the Profanisaurus is titled "Hail Sweary" which is probably a nod to her heritage.Ĭontributions from readers were originally published in the comic, and then edited into later editions. ![]() ![]() It was labelled "Sweary Mary's Dictionary", which was a foul-mouthed character from Viz. 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'.
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