Big Stink

Big Stink may refer to:

  • Big Stink (B-29) was the name of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber (Victor number 90) that participated in the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945
  • The Great Stink, or the Big Stink, was a time in the summer of 1858 during which the smell of untreated human waste was very strong in central London.

Famous quotes containing the words big and/or stink:

    “Under the Big Top, only two days count—today and tomorrow.”
    —Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)

    “You sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)