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(Un)official Shakespeare Audio InsulterCurrent Version: 1.0

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This (un)official insulter is based on the original Shakespeare Insulter from the days of old. This modern day insulter uses the original dictionary, but offers up AUDIO as well, speaking the insulting phrase to whomever you are directing your insults at. Issue a new insult with a tap or a shake.

According to some critics, this is NOT the real thing because it does not use a British accent. I'm sorry to disappoint, but I was not born with one, nor have I acquired one. So I have dubbed this an Unofficial insulter so as to not insult. This uses an American voice, purposely stilted for effect ;-)

That said, this is very funny. AND, it uses a purposely stilted delivery as a part of the tongue in cheek humor that this represents. So please enjoy and...

INSULT THE FOLLOWING GROUPS OF PEOPLE:

• your teacher
• your principle
• your boss
• the person who was your boss until you got fired for insulting them
• your friends
• people who are not your friends
• your colleagues
• people who are not your colleagues
• people who will no longer be your friend once insulted
• your children
• your parents
• your dog or your cat
• a policeman writing you a ticket
• and all others not falling into the above categories

FEATURES

• the ability to insult within seconds of needing to do so
• spoken insults
• animated visual insult, in sentence format
• you don't have the time to listen to all of the possible insults

ATTENTION:

Those with 1st generation iPod will need earphones to be insulted aurally.

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(Un)official Shakespeare Audio Insulter Review

Insult your friends the Shakespeare way

by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com

William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays containing 20,000 to 30,000 words, depending on who’s doing the counting. Some of the words are evocative, some form turns of phrase still in use today, and many, many others can be strung together into a series of vile insults—at least if the voluminous torrent of abuse in Official Shakespearean Audio Insulter is anything to go by.

The $1 app from CHS Systems is a mobile version of the Shakespearean insult generators you’ll find on the Web. (This version was inspired by high school teacher Jerry Maguire.) CHS’s take employs audio—tap or shake the picture of Shakespeare, and the Bard will rattle off a randomly-generated insult, calling you a “bootless, rude-growing mumble-news,” for example or a “lumpish, tickle-brained dewberry.”

CHS’s Insulter is an amusing enough diversion, especially if you get a kick out of having your iPhone or iPod touch berate friends and associates for being mangled, sheep-biting lewdsters. But the amusement can grow pretty thin quickly—it’d be better if the insults were delivered with more of a vocal flourish than with the relatively flat intonation that the app uses. (This is Shakespeare, guys.) And while the Insulter mixes and matches words from different plays, it would definitely add to the app’s value if you knew from which plays insults like “canker-blossom” and “puttock” originated.

Still, Official Shakespearean Audio Insulter is an entertaining little app. Only a spleeny, fly-bitten minnow would claim otherwise.

Official Shakespearean Audio Insulter is compatible with any iPhone or second-generation iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2 software update.

[Macworld.com executive editor Philip Michaels is a jarring, earth-vexing branacle, apparently.]

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