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…

Ask your average 12-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

With a spot of time to kill before the excitement of July’s movie month gathers pace, we here at Adult Swim have spent the past few days thumbing through our well-used copy of the Oxford Dictionary searching for words that may feel underused - overwhelmed even - in today’s fast-changing society. Words that don’t get much of an airing, that sit latently on the page, sandwiched between lately and lateral, thinking that they may never see the light of day beyond the odd Physics textbook. While some people give money to charity, help out in a soup kitchen or buy a copy of the Big Issue we’ve taken it upon ourselves to champion the cause of the downtrodden word for the betterment of society.

So, all this week we’ll be introducing the world to our forgotten word of the day, doing our bit to aid the process whereby the meek really do inherit the earth. And as the sharper among you may have guessed, today’s word is latent, meaning existing but not active, developed, or visible. Like a volcano perhaps. Try and use it today if you can. Not only will you appear cleverer than you really are but you’ll be doing your bit to make the world a better place.

Latent, Adult Swim’s forgotten word of the day.