Ideas seldom referenced in Top 40 songs

Well, scat certainly doesn’t appear in many of my album liners.

And no, I don’t mean Ella Fitzgerald type scat.

Sudetenland Annexation
Stoichiometry
Marshall Plan
Offsides
Multidimensional Scaling

High school yells/cheers that don’t name the high school http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=166329

Poll: How much spam do you delete daily
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=165963

Co-ed contact sport touching etiquette
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=166343

What is the worst strip club you’ve been to?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=165816

delini8r writes:

“Volatile Organic Compounds”

How about “Margaritaville”?

The Duckworth/Lewis method

Model theory
Non-euclidean geometry
Dilworth’s lemma
Lagrange’s theorem (and why the hell not?)
Triconnectivity
Kolmogorov complexity
Functors
The axiom of choice

Oh man…I never realized pop music was so shallow!

The band I am in is named The Combovers.

More things not often mentioned:

Photosynthesis
Reduction/Oxidation reactions
Kickplates for your front door
Inconvenient CD-burning software
The Straight Dope

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But that doesn’t really address the issue of whether there’s a song about it, now does it? :wink:

“Hey hey we’re the combovers! And people say we comb over our hair!”

good point twick.

We may just have to write a song about that shoddy facade. I mean, why not just buy a hat?

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Pre-Cretaceous Fossils
The Heartbreak of Psoriasis

Proto-Indo-European

The Dvorak simplified keyboard

The prisoner’s dilemma

The necessity of refilling the stapler with staples made by the stapler’s manufacturer

Completeness (in the mathematical sense of that term)

Denying the antecedent

The great chain of being

The problem of losing a sock in the washer each time you do a load of laundry.

Why not just buy a hat?
Why not just buy a hat?
You really wanna look like that?
Suck it up and buy a hat.

“Say it loud! I’m bald and I’m proud!”

Friedel-Krafts Reaction
Hobson’s Choice
Exact Multicollinearity
Type II error
Carter Doctrine

There may just be a Top 40 hit in all this.

Fully vested retirement plans
Family and Medical Leave Act
Long-term Disability Insurance
HMOs, PPOs and Traditional Major Medical
Employee Assistance Programs
401ks and 403bs

And beyond the world of Human Resources :smiley:

Giardiasis
germ theory
DVD region encoding
Okra
Soapmaking for fun and profit
Female genital mutilation

Clementsian succession

State and transition models

Logistic regression

Hyporheic flow

Soil morphology

Denitrification

Coffee roasting

Osmotic gradients

Vacuoles

cheese curds
disembowelment
whey
lactose intoleration
laser designation
TOW missiles
Israeli Defense Force military strategy
radar absorbent material
global positioning units
Squad Automatic Weapons
leaky bowel syndrome
Deep Clean Tide with Bleach Alternative
poison warning labels

The New Democratic Party

The Test act

The Bélanger-Campeau commission

The Krever inquiry

CBC president Robert Rabinovich

Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec

Eggplants