Ideas seldom referenced in Top 40 songs

Pareto Optimality
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Hertzberg Two-Factor Theorem
Manifest Destiny
The Domino Theory
Planck’s Constant
The Invisible Hand
Capital Asset Pricing Model
Arbitrage
Ohm’s Law
Bayesian Statistics
Disorderly Markets
Abstract Algebra
Fractals
Boyle’s Law
Conservation of Matter
Occam’s Razor
Existentialism

Please, do join in :smiley:

Hubble’s Constant
The Golden Ratio
Animal Husbandry (if you exclude “Closer” :wink: )
In Vitro Fertilization
Warcraft III strategies
Brownian Motion
The Monroe Doctrine
Vatican II
Calvinism

… this list is kinda tough, until you remember that The Pixies and They Might Be Giants aren’t really Top 40 bands.

Trotskyism
Ataris
Wahabbi Islam
Dewey Decimal System
Albanian Communism
Wrestling Bears
French Victory

The Anti-Comintern Pact

Oh, how wrong you are:smiley:

The extraordinary physics of dried pine needles

indifference to somebody you’re dating
fear of being discovered stealing company staplers
combovers
those new flavors of pizza, fire smoked turkey and corn, etc.
uncolas
Subarus (not quite a GTO or T-Bird, is it?)

With regards to Dave Barry …

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff!

small pox
gangrene
lice
tapeworms
toe/bellybutton lint
mad cow disease
fatwahs
suppositories
varicose veins
those two lines between your nose and upper lip
nail clippings
yard clippings
mulch
Yogi Berra
Yogi the Bear
Boo Boo Bear

I could go on…

Turkish tap dancers

I thought that was the meaning of Alanis Morissette.

the Riemann zeta function
colonoscopies
square dancing
circumcision
flying buttresses
washing your hands after using the rest room
Dante’s Purgatorio

Root Beer
Voting
Romanesque archetecture
Jaywalking
Cupolas
Mowing the Lawn
Democratic Peace Theory
Rwanda
Hockey

gingivitis
webbed toes

The heartbreak of psoriasis

Avogadro’s number
Relative Positivism
mulch
fixed-rate mortgages
The Sword of Damocles
the pancreas
Goose-pulling
forensic pathology
The Magna Carta
The Cattle Raid of Cooley
Tammy-Faye Baker
Cheez-whiz

Wonderful idea for a thread, BTW.

Subject matter jurisdiction
Orders nunc pro tunc
Motions to compel further written discovery responses
Judgment debtor examinations
Lis Pendens
Partnership entity theory
Non-hearsay vs. Hearsay exceptions
Gerrymandering
White flight
Subpoenas duces tecum
Rex Talionis
Strict scrutiny standard
Pleading fraud with specificty
Speculative damages
Preliminary injunctions
Smart growth
Califronia Coastal Commission term limits
Bureau of Barbering and Cosmetology
Governor’s budget on child support enforcement

Oh, my lord, I can’t believe Boyo Jim beat me to “mulch”… I should read more carefully. I’d never have guessed it had already been used.

Our world will indeed be a better place when this guy breaks into the Top 40. God bless him. :smiley:

Thanks.

The Divine Right of Kings
Imaginary Numbers
Roosevelt Corrolary
Dividend Theory
Keynesian Macroeconomics
Price Inelasticity of Demand
Law of Large Numbers
Non-continuous Dependent Variables
Randomly Distributed Residuals