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  • Old School in Spetember

    Current mood:geeky

    All month on adultswim.co.uk it's Old School.

    Right you lot - fingers on lips and listen carefully. For your homework this month we want you to watch cartoons, play computer games and study the random folderol contained within the pages of this here website website. Pay attention; there will be a test later.
    9:58 AM

  • Summer Stuffin' all this month on Adult Swim.

    It's getting hot in here, let's take off all our clothes, apart from the barbeque apron. Grease-splash burns are no joke. Actually, leave them on. People are trying to eat around here.
    9:10 AM

  • Big Screen, Little Screen, Sticky Cardboard Cup

    It’s July and we’re getting a hankering for cold dark rooms, sticky floors, tooth-melting sugary snacks and carbonated corn-syrup-based drinks.


    Movie theatres are just super aren’t they? Especially if you’re supposed to working/studying/doing something productive


    Here at the swim’s London HQ we thought we’d trawl through all our shows – the good, the bad and the ugly and dish up the best movie clips, episodes and all things film related – because that way it looks like we’re working


    Ever wondered what happened to E.T. when he returned home? ....


    Wanted to see what Whoopsie (sic) Goldberg’s like when the cameras stop rolling?


    Can’t get enough of everybody’s favourite boy wizard (he-who-does-not-need-to-be-named)


    Think that there’s something about Cameron Diaz?


    Want to see George Lucas fleeing his adoring fans on the back of a Tauntan or what happens when chief Squidbillie Early Cuyler mistakes a legless fat man for Patrick Swayze?


    Do you?


    Then get your eyeballs peeled coz it’s free and all you have to do is go to adultswm.co.uk all throughout July to enjoy it!


    Adult Swim, in the 7th month of 2009 at the Movies –  or all through July in case you’re struggling

    1:04 PM

  • Word of the day - Obtuse

    Ask your average 15-year old to stick the word obtuse into a sentence and the chances are that he or she will go down the geometric path by making reference to
    obtuse angles - angles of more than 90 but less than 180 degrees - favoured by the likes of the Greek mathematician Euclid (who invented angles), the British all-round brainbox Sir Isaac Newton (who took them to the next level) and the mercurial potting sensation and 3-time world snooker champion Ronnie ‘the Rocket’ O’Sullivan (who uses them in his job).
    Obtuse does have a couple of other, less frequently used but nevertheless accepted meanings:
     
    a) stupid or slow at understanding
     
    This renders it perfect to use on that mate everyone’s got who’s a bit sluggish on the uptake, the one who at the end of a Scooby Doo episode pipes up with ‘So it was the guy who owns the motel, I thought it really was a swamp monster,’ who wouldn’t in a million years have twigged that Verbal Kint and Keyser Soze were the same person (or Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker for that matter) and who hasn’t got a 3rd, 4th or 5th Sense, let alone a 6th. 
     
    b) insensitive or difficult
     
    The word famously raises its infrequently-seen head in the film The Shawshank Redemption when Tim Robbins’ character Andy Dufresne has the temerity to refer to the Warden as being obtuse because of his (the Warden’s) refusal to reopen Andy’s case in the light of new evidence. If our memory serves us right Andy got a month in the hole to think about what he’d said. Don’t let that put you off using it though, it’s only a story.
     
    Which application of obtuse, Adult Swim’s forgotten word of the day, do you prefer? We’d like to know because:
     
    1) We like words
    2) We respect your opinion 
    3) We haven’t done a poll in a while
    8:47 AM

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