Isn't it funny that "Shrek" has become a form of insult for people who are deemed fat and ugly? I say that it's funny because the film Shrek overturns fairytale conventions about beauty and yet the name Shrek has been appropriated by some people as a term of abuse for those whom they deem ugly.
shareShrek is yiddish for "terror"(from the German for "fear")
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That's interesting, I've never heard that before, but it doesn't surprise me. It reminds me of the way a burger chain was opened called Wimpy, in reference to the Popeye cartoons, even though the cartoons were trying to make burger-eating seem unattractive by calling the burger-eating character "Wimpy."
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