Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Kate P wrote:

At least we can rest assured that while there may be occasional mutations among the general population, there's no danger of the economist population breeding itself into perpetuity.

Which is your favourite line?

1 and 3 are rather self-absorbed and conditional, aren't they?

So it must be 2; it's the most flattering.

Having said that, I had a funny experience outside Tesco this morning. I was wide awake and happy and feeling good to be alive in that Easter, rejuvenation way and was having a brief walk-by conversation with a complete stranger - male - about the weather when he said completely sincerely "you look great".

That, A-T, is the way to do it.

(Objectively, by the way I am no oil painting and was rather scruffy looking with peculiar slept-on hair but feeling happy obviously compensates for all of those deficiencies)

Poor old economists, turned out they had the last laugh.

"Economics has given mathematics rigor, but alas, also mortis."