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Square
A square is a quadrilateral with 4 right angles and all sides the same length.
It can also refer to a person who is just not hip. Old-fashioned and unappreciative of the latest fads and fashions.
A square number is a number that can be written as
x
Tue Apr 03 2001 at 20:04:54
The quality of being un-hip, or a person exhibiting that quality. The word was originally used in this sense by beats in the 1950s, but became widely used by the 1960s to pick on the wallflowers or others not up to the minute on the latest styles and trends. The glyphL7 forms a near-square, and came to be used as a synonym.
Ryan Gosling is the theme for
Round 2, seeing as it s the 10th anniversary of the cult classic, Drive. A movie in which Gosling says about seven words, but is still completely mesmerising all the same.
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And because the internet collectively lost its mind about someBODY slagging Shrek on its 20th anniversary this week,
Round 3 is all about the animated movies of 2001.
On your movies. get set. GO!
ROUND 1 – MOVIE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Which legendary director made the Vietnam war movie, Full Metal Jacket?
Francis Ford Coppola
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Flatulent icon: Shrek in Shrek, as voiced by Mike Myers (Dreamworks Llc/Kobal/Shutterstoc)
Shrek has always occupied a strange position in the cultural conversation. The groundbreaking animation from upstart studio DreamWorks, which turned 20 this week, certainly has its fans – its ubiquitous place at the heart of online meme-dom is testament to that – but it’s also long had its detractors. To some, the movie was ground zero for an uninspired wave of snarky animated blockbusters , from DreamWorks’ follow-up
Shark Tale to Disney’s own
Chicken Little and the inescapable Minions franchise. While there’s truth to that claim,
Love, Death & Robots Volume 2
Executive producers Tim Miller and Jennifer Yuh Nelson fill us in on the second season of Netflix s animated-shorts anthology series, which conjures lovingly-crafted sci-fi and fantasy worlds, features incredible life-like animation, and is not for kids.
(Photo by Netflix)
When Netflix’s eclectic animated sci-fi anthology series
Love Death & Robots returns on Friday, it will unleash a new set of eight startling visions that recall anthology magazines like
Heavy Metal in terms of well-rendered worlds and intense short subjects. It is a different style of series for the service, which tends to support serialized storytelling, so if you happen upon the program while browsing Netflix this weekend, you may wonder what the program is all about.