Once there had been big glittering rooms where Ulanys bowed and kissed the ladies' hands as they flirted from behind their fans.

Arthur Mathews has described Seinfeld as a major influence on the comedy of Father Ted, with himself and Linehan being " big fans " of the show.

Gaming fans have also recently made a big impact on content developers, namely BioWare Corp.

This rulebook is so big ( 592 pages ) that some fans speculated that it might be bulletproof, and it did indeed stop some bullets when tested by Hero Games staffers.

Many complaints ( all radio stations are required by the FCC to maintain, in their public files, copies of all correspondence from the public relating to station operations – for a period of three years from receipt ) have been received from fans of this musical genre ( Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, big band music ," etc.

Another important field of collecting that is also big business is memorabilia, which includes collectables related to a person, organization, event or media, including t-shirts, posters, and numerous other collectables marketed to fans ; but also includes ephemera from historical, media, or entertainment events, items that were meant to be thrown away but were saved by fans and accumulated by collectors.

Episode 14 of the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico causes a rather confusing link between the world of the show itself and that of Gekigangar III, a popular anime that exists within its universe and that many characters are fans of ; the episode is essentially a clip show, but has several newly animated segments based on Gekigangar that involves the characters of that show watching Nadesico ( many of them being big fans of it themselves ).

The most coincidental thing is both Farrell and Morgan were big fans of the M * A * S * H series during its early seasons before they both joined the cast, with Morgan having also appeared as " General Bartford Hamilton Steele " in the season-three episode " The General Flipped at Dawn " ( for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Guest Role in a Primetime Comedy Series ).

One of the big areas of debate within the community of fans is what makes a given setting historical.

San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson, who claims not to have shaved since the 2010 All-Star Game, has grown a big beard that has become popular in MLB and with its fans.

It has become a big part of the Jerky Boys career, becoming somewhat of a cult following for Jerky Boys fans.

GamesRadar editor Brett Elston noted that while Charizard and Bulbasaur get “ big props ” from Pokémon players, Squirtle appears to be more popular from people who are not fans of the series, suggesting that its appearance may be a part of it.

The Allmusic review by Alex Henderson awarded the album 4. 5 stars stating " Those who aren't big dancehall fans may find the hip-hop-influenced CD hard to get into ; those who are heavily into it will find a lot to admire on My Xperience, which contains major dancehall hits like " Living Dangerously " and " Virgin Island.

This popularity also fueled successful concert tours throughout the 1980s and 1990s, often with large numbers of younger people being present at the concerts, many of whom were fans of the big hits and inevitably purchased the greatest hits album.

Two Sevens Clash meanwhile had become a big seller in the United Kingdom, popular with punk rock fans as well as reggae fans and boosted by the support of John Peel on his BBC Radio 1 show, and reached number 60 on the UK Albums Chart in April 1978.

Building on the shot-blocking power of Mutombo and teammate Alonzo Mourning, Georgetown fans created a " Rejection Row " section under the basket, adding a big silhouette of an outstretched hand to a banner for each shot blocked during the game.

That caused a big uproar among fans, James Blake, and commentators, as they felt James Blake deserved to advance.

One night he opened up all the windows, put on ten big fans and an air conditioner and dropped the temperature to 38 degrees.

In 1960, Blassie returned to Strongbow's promotion in Los Angeles where he was a big star for the World Wrestling Association of southern California, drawing many fans to the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

For wrestling fans the Budokan means professional wrestling's big shows.

With a less talented team and no big names to excite the fans, Chicago's season ticket sales predictably flatlined, in spite of Hoffman sinking a lot of money into advertising.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

The curtains were of the same material, and there were some big oil paintings -- portraits in the style of Lancret and Boucher.

Though, taken individually, the big rooms were, or seemed to be, square, the apartment as a whole formed a triangle.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

`` All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight '', the old man told them.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.

The big tanks were at the site but still sunning themselves.

Films were used, as with all sections, but with one big difference.

His face was ruddy and heavy and unlined, and when he laughed he showed his teeth, which were big and white and strong and unquestionably home-grown.

At each angle of its pitch a big skylight had been fitted into the roof and all these skylights were fitted with systems of multiple screens and shades.

When I had my big job with the double headlights and yards of chrome, the gas people were happy to see me.

The liberals, smelling blood, were faced with the necessity of winning three big votes -- in the Democratic Committee on Committees, in the full party caucus, and on the floor of the House -- before they could oust Colmer.

Even if the atom were big enough to hold a football field, this nucleus is still only about the size of a pinhead.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

The first meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, a great big place where we were able to meet members from all the other states.

She was not alone for there were three other such children in the big city's special nursery.

When they were forced to, Central Worlds shrugged its shoulders, arranged a tour of the Laboratory Schools and set the tour off to a big start by showing the members case histories, complete with photographs.

The railroads were the first big businesses in America, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest of them all.