Stuart Campbell

I didn't notice, but apparently my habit of absent-mindedly constructing new swearwords by cutting-and-pasting existing ones together was picked up by several people (well, Tim Norris), and some passing publisher's children.

It was an unconscious act, born of the desire to fit more rudeness into fewer syllables (time was tight on AP), and usually happened at random, resulting in irrational examples like "Tossflaps!" or "Wanking piss!"

Advanced use would see these being combined to whatever length was required to correctly convey the appropriate level of dissent ("Pissing shagfuck bastardflaps CUNTWANK!", say, when Colin The Publisher came in 20 minutes from cover deadline and made us totally rearrange the cover in order to have the word "Exclusive!" on it three more times).

I still maintain this is a great deal effective both as expression and stress release than Jonathan's equivalent, "Bother!"

(No, really, that's what he says. Except I'm taking a bit of artistic licence over the exclamation mark.)