Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff makes frequent reference to both Big Brother and other Orwellian traits in his Russian Reversal jokes.

This is apparently a reference to Sutcliffe, who left the Beatles in Hamburg and later died there, combined with a rhyming reference to Zeppo Marx, who was the " fifth " Marx Brother.

Critics often dub CCTV as " Big Brother surveillance ", a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which featured a two-way telescreen in every home through which The Party would monitor the populace.

Gil Scott-Heron makes reference to Fanon in his poem " Brother ".

It is said that George Washington often uttered the words: " We must consult Brother Jonathan " when faced with a difficult question ; however, that origin is doubtful, as neither man made reference to the story during their lifetimes and the first appearance of the story has been traced to the mid-19th century, long after their deaths.

In it is a reference to the Land of Nod otherwise called East of Eden: " Brother John, have you seen the homeless daughters standing here with broken wings.

George often refers to this calling himself " God's Bungler ", in reference to Brother Andrew, " God's Smuggler ".

Joyner has invested and appeared in movies marketed to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS church ), including playing " Brother Angel " ( a reference to the California Angels ) in " The Single's Ward ," and " Brother Jensen " in the 2003 movie, The R. M.

The title of the episode and the plot, to a certain extent, is a reference to the common expression " Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

When Brother Blood congratulates " Stone for his performance, he also scolds Mammoth, Gizmo, and Jinx with a reference on them being sent back to the H. I. V. E.

The title of the episode is a reference the name of the fictional book " Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

The latter is partly a reference to the soundtrack of the original " Brother ", which consists entirely of Nautilus Pompilius ' songs.

Morrissey famously quipped of the last, " One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England " (" torture " being a reference to the music that resulted from the project ).

Due to concern over its potential effects, the redaction of the preamble of the proposed European Constitution, in 2002, has caused much controversy because of the possible inclusion of a reference to the Christian heritage of Europe.

The TCP / IP reference model does not concern itself with the OSI model's details of application or transport protocol semantics and therefore does not consider a session layer.

Some association members of Central American Real Estate Associations who are practicing agents and are involved in real life transactions on a daily basis have expressed their concern in the sense that at the moment of ethical conflicts with foreign colleagues, they have not had at hand any practical instrument that can serve to resolve ethical conflicts ( even though agreements that make reference to code of ethics do exist ).

The lack of such international cooperation is also a big concern for the replacement of US Dollar in this role of reference currency in foreign exchange reserves.

This effect is of greater concern for in-line holographic systems because the reference beam is propagated through the volume along with the scattered object beam.

The UN committee expressed its concern " about the length of judicial procedures and made reference to reports that indicated that five years had sometimes passed between crime and sentence.

From the point of view of its opponents, however, one of the main causes of concern is that the Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization as an international reference standard for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection.

Simpson also had to change the lyrics to " La La " because of concern that they were too sexual for the show ; for instance, a reference to " lemonade " replaced " French maid ".

A more pressing concern for Washington, which he makes reference to in this portion of the address, was the Democratic-Republican efforts to align with France and the Federalist efforts to ally the nation with Great Britain in an ongoing conflict between the two European nations brought about by the French Revolution.

Art `` makings '' or pseudo-anthropological myths did not meet all of Patchen's requirements for a poetic frame of reference.

My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink, scented stationery and the unsloped, almost printed configurations of her neat, studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer, so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when ; ;

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

Replies to requests for character reference are notorious for their evasive double-entendre.

The total volume of the system above the reference height is Af, and H can be eliminated to obtain an equation for the total potential energy of the system in terms of H.

Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.

During the assignment pass, each instruction is examined for reference to the symbolic name of an index word or electronic switch.

When such a reference is found, an actual address is assigned and the availability table is changed so that the assigned index word or switch is no longer available for later assignment.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

The need is for reference works of a more specialized nature than individual libraries, adequate to satisfy everyday needs, could afford.

Couperin and Rameau gave titles to nearly everything they wrote, not in the later sense of `` program music '' but as a kind of nonmusical reference for the close, clear musical forms filled with keen wit and precise utterance.

But, from our reading of the Western Talmud, we Urielites believe that the Forerunner, knowing this situation would arise, made reference to and provision for divorce.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

As for the term " Compositae ", more ancient but still valid, it obviously makes reference to the fact that the family is one of the few angiosperms that have composite flowers.

A reference to the " Mad Arab " in Cthulhu Mythos fiction is invariably a synonym for Abdul Alhazred.

The history of astrometry is linked to the history of star catalogues, which gave astronomers reference points for objects in the sky so they could track their movements.

Apart from the fundamental function of providing astronomers with a reference frame to report their observations in, astrometry is also fundamental for fields like celestial mechanics, stellar dynamics and galactic astronomy.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to mutilation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, or irreverent, " outrageous treatment ", in general.

In the church " the purple " is a euphemism for blood and therefore " wearing the purple " may be a reference to martyrdom or a bishop's robe.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

The enzyme responsible for degrading ampicillin is called beta-lactamase, in reference to the beta-lactam structure of ampicillin and related drugs.