If everyone who usually spends their days watching The Big Bang Theory was forced out to vote by a lack of anything else to do, we'll be plunged into the nightmarish reality of a socialist government come 8 May.
It is because those three systems did not work that Britain was plunged into crisis on such a scale, with a vast overhang of private debt and too little productive capacity.
"Now we've all been plunged into this new world.
So you'll understand that I was feeling pretty pleased with myself when I plunged down the other side and crossed the busy A628 to take the quieter B6015 to Glossop.
An estimated €20bn is believed to have fled local lenders since December, when Athens was plunged into political turmoil with parliament's failure to elect a new head of state automatically triggering snap polls.
In the late 60s, when he was a young French teacher in his home city of Derry, he plunged into the nascent civil rights campaign.
Years ago, Roy Jenkins asked me if I recalled that, in The Great Crash, Kenneth Galbraith had identified the beginning of the interwar slump as the day when the value of shares in Union Carbide plunged from several dollars to a few cents.
Just before the interval, Irish won a lineout and a driving maul took them into the Northampton 22. Ian Humphreys and Ojo gave O'Connor the chance the draw his man and slip a perfect pass to the wing Sailosi Tagicakibau, who plunged down for a try in the corner.
The exchange rate of the national currency of Belarus plunged by 30% this week after the government completed its devaluation.
He sniffed, and sneezed, and plunged into dithering grass.
Many have not made it on to the ladder, and many of those who succeeded bought at the peak of the market and risk being plunged into negative equity.
