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Thsrs: it's a thesaurus, but shorter
Do you type a lot of SMS or Twitter messages? Watching your character count closely? Maybe you should check out the Thsrs, a new thesaurus from Ironic Sans. Put in the grandiloquent word you were planning to use, and it will give you a shorter synonym to help you save characters while still making sense. What inspired Thsrs? Well, David at Ironic Sans thought people needed a little help composing understandable messages "w/o needing 2 use ugly abbrev's." Seems like a fine idea to us! There might still be a few kinks to work out -- one commenter noted that 'awesome' humorously returned 'awful' as a synonym -- but Thsrs worked pretty well when we tested it. Try it yourself, and let your messages be understood!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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k_S said 4:14PM on 7-09-2008
lol omg wth? ths is rly kl. ppl wnt ths!
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dBlade said 1:59PM on 7-09-2008
lol omg wth? ths is kl. ppl wnt ths! sweet!
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Chris Huang said 6:18PM on 7-10-2008
"awful" originally meant "to fill with awe" before its meaning changed, so that may be why it's listed as a synonym for "awesome"
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Chris Huang said 7:35AM on 7-10-2008
"awful" originally meant "to fill with awe" before its meaning
changed, so that may be why it's listed as a synonym for "awesome". See:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=define:awful&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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