These pages are a tribute to Bob Rial, one of the North's finest user of a swear word.

He can use only one swear word all night and it can pack more venom than a swearing match between all the commuters in a traffic jam and all the building-site workers in Manchester. He can even achieve the swearing effect by leaving rude words out of what would normally be a rude expression: for example "Come in mothers"

He didn't like his last job much ( computer operator for AtosOrigin in Runcorn ) and left when he got the chance. Nobody knows what he's doing now. He could be in the bar at the cricket club, making cutting remarks about teenagers' dress sense. He's unlikely to be shopping for clothes, driving a flash car or getting a tattoo. Or watching cricket.

Here in short then is the brilliant Bob Rial.

For mild swearing click here Ant and Dec

For medium strength swearing click here Saunders and Lumley

For strong swearing click here Bernard Manning and Chubby Brown