Quote Originally Posted by Namdnas View Post
OK, I'm not shy (you may already know that from my n00b shaving video), I didn't know what ceteris paribus meant, and had, in fact never seen the phrase. Now I do. You are a better man than I am, Gunga Din, er... Jimbo.
No Namdnas, I just had a misspent youth studying an economics degree. But I do find that phrase an excellent way to cover my ass (as do economists, I imagine) in areas where I know little or nothing The beauty of it is, of course, that people think you must know something, because you've used latin. "All else being equal" or whatever sounds so mundane...

Here's another one I learned from economics: sumptus censum ne superet

Vade in pace (my son...)

James.