" Ringworld ", or more formally, " Niven ring ", has become a generic term for such a structure, which is an example of what science fiction fans call a " Big Dumb Object ", or more formally a megastructure.

Cosmic themes, metaphysics, sense of wonder, exotic settings, technobabble, so-called Big Dumb Objects, psychedelic imagery, and " two fisted action " have been mostly phased out in favor of human content, contemporary themes, and strong focus on character relationships.

* Ska / punk band Big D and the Kids Table released their song " It's Raining Zombies On Wall Street " on their new album For the Damned, the Dumb & the Delirious.

Comedy films such as Dumb & Dumber and Big Momma's House that contain action-laden sub-plots are not considered part of the genre as the action scenes have a more integral role in action comedies.

" Humor in grunge often satirized glam metal — for example, Soundgarden's " Big Dumb Sex "— and other forms of popular rock music during the 1980s ..

* Big Dumb Object

In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object ( BDO ) is any mysterious object ( usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power ) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there ; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.

Big Dumb Objects often exhibit extreme or unusual properties, or a total absence of expected properties:

is a parody of the Big Dumb Object, " a very mysterious and powerful device ", alternately described as an object whose " mystery is only exceeded by its power " and whose " power is only exceeded by its mystery ".

* Big Dumb Objects at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition

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The BDB ( Big Dumb Booster ) plays a significant role in Stephen Baxter's Manifold series.

Alien doomsday machines are common in science fiction as " Big Dumb Objects ", McGuffins around which the plot can be constructed.

In 1998, Borland formed a side project, Big Dumb Face, with whom he released one whole album.

In 1998, Borland formed a side project, Big Dumb Face, influenced by Ween and Mr. Bungle.

In March 2001, Big Dumb Face released its début album, Duke Lion Fights the Terror !!

Rocket recovered from this early-career setback and worked steadily in film, with roles in such movies as Earth Girls Are Easy, It's Pat, Steal Big Steal Little, How I Got into College, Dances with Wolves and Dumb and Dumber, often playing comedic foils.

* Big Dumb Object, a term used in science fiction

Big Dumb Face is a band formed by Wes and Scott Borland.

Wes Borland set the project to the side once he quit Limp Bizkit in 2001 to start up progressive metal outfit Eat the Day, but once Eat the Day fell through and Borland briefly rejoined Limp Bizkit in late 2004, Borland recorded and wrote a new Big Dumb Face thrash / death metal song called " Darkness Becomes ", which was available on Borland's website, but now is available on the Big Dumb Face website.

All athletics teams are supported by the Athletic Boosters, which holds the annual Big Bear Run, a five kilometer race through the surrounding neighborhood.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

* 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

Big O notation, omega notation and theta notation are used to this end.

Big band arrangements are informally called charts.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

The core ideas of the Big Bang — the expansion, the early hot state, the formation of helium, and the formation of galaxies — are derived from many observations that are independent from any cosmological model ; these include the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the Hubble diagram for Type Ia supernovae.

The earliest phases of the Big Bang are subject to much speculation.

The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and today also the large scale distribution and apparent evolution of galaxies predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard theory.

These are sometimes called " the four pillars of the Big Bang theory ".

The following commercial products are indicative of the style: Ayinger Maibock, Mahr ’ s Bock, Hacker-Pschorr Hubertus Bock, Capital Maibock, Einbecker Mai-Urbock, Hofbräu Maibock, Victory St. Boisterous, Gordon Biersch Blonde Bock, Smuttynose Maibock, Old Dominion Brewing Company Big Thaw Bock, and, despite the name, Rogue Ales Dead Guy Ale.

There are several sub-bays off the Bay of Quinte, including Hay Bay, Big Bay, and Muscote Bay.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase " Big Brother is watching you ", which is the core " truth " of the propaganda system in this state.

It has been reported that " hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt water are pumped out monthly " in the Big Dig, and a map has been prepared showing " hot spots " where water leakage is especially serious.

In all the countries that have produced Big Brother, they have referred to the contestants as " housemates "; however in the American version of the format they are referred to as " houseguests ".

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

The contestants are required to do housework, and are set tasks by the producers of the show, who communicate with the housemates via the omnipresent authority figure known to them only as " Big Brother ".

The Big Brother contestants are isolated within the house.

During Celebrity Big Brother 6, LaToya Jackson was first to enter and walked straight into the bedrooms-which are usually locked until everyone has arrived-and entered a private bedroom.

However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.