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stercus accidit

If you can decipher stercus accidit, you'll know the meaning of life.
stercus accidit by ShinkuEX June 18, 2009

Stercus caput 

Latin for shithead. Used when trying to insult a more intelligent person than you, hoping they do not understand what you have just called them, making them feel less intelligent.
Man1- Excuse me, do you know who you're talking to?
Man2- Stercus Caput.
Man1- (looks puzzled)
Man2- (walks off)
Stercus caput by JMUK July 17, 2012

stercus nullum 

"No shit" in latin. This term fulfills the extreme need in academic discourse for a less noxious alternative to No shit No shit Sherlock Captain Obvious Thank you Captain Obvious. Since academic discourse often favors stilted, unclear, and symbolically embellished phrasing, latinates -- correct or incorrect -- really do the trick. So stercus nullum fulfills both roles -- viz., provides appropriately pompous and stilted way to say no shit on occasions where the precise meaning and impact of no shit Sherlock is called for.
It is impolite and too informal to say "no shit Sherlock," or "thank you Captain Obvious," in formal academic writing, and thus, one should opt for the appropriately stilted-but-false latinate "stercus nullum" instead.

Bulbus Stercum 

a Latin word where the English word
bullshit come from
Bulbus Stercum by ~I`D`K`~ October 21, 2008

Sterculius 

Butthead : "It's Sterculius, the Roman god of Feces."
Sterculius by BrewGuy85 April 24, 2005