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24th Mar 2022

Shallow Hal (2001)

Question: Near the start of the film, Mauricio said he didn't like his girl Lindy's big second toe. Hal suggests what if she could have her toe filed down and Mauricio says "Then I'm dating a nub?" What exactly is a nub?

Answer: "Nub" is another word for "lump." Mauricio is so shallow that he's defining Lindy entirely by her toe, so if she had the toe filed down to a nub, then he would see her as that much in the same way he only views her as an elongated toe.

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