There is no better way to kill a big idea than to push a smaller, dumber version.
Now, in front of me, sits Dapper 2.0, and Dapper 2.0 is trying to move towards the "aren't lads dumb?" version of himself and away from the "take your bra off or I'll stab you with a knife" incarnation, which I think we can all agree is progress.
The second season hit a few rough spots, but it still did a nice job of battering the solid marriage of two seemingly sane adults — Beverly and Sean Lincoln (Greig and Stephen Mangan), celebrated British TV producers now grinding out a dirt-dumb version of their hit show in Hollywood.
(A dumb-blonde version of the goddess Aphrodite appears on "Xena". Caption: "The actress graduated from Brown University").
The phone can be considered a "dumbed down" version of the Hermes, thanks to its lack of camera, and lowered CPU speed (200MHz instead of 400MHz).
There's been some chat about how Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family represents a dumbed down version of history programming, but that's elitist bullshit.
One prevailing idea among this audience is that Oblivion's ambition to be accessible resulted in a "dumbed down" version of Morrowind – and, frankly, that's something that rings true with a direct comparison.
It seemed like any other Starbucks store, but it gave away "dumb" versions of items sold by the Seattle-based coffee giant: Dumb Iced Vanilla Latte and Dumb Blonde Roast.
His settings for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (1915), a version by the French satirist Anatole France of an old French folk drama, employed an austere, gray-and-black, poster-like street facade and brilliant costumes.
More often than not, this is because the site you were trying to visit implemented its "mobile-friendly" version in a dumb way.
