The World According To Suz » I really disgrace my country…with zits?

10:00 pmI really disgrace my country…with zits?

Several years ago I bought a funny book for my husband, more for a gag than anything else. And guess what, I’ve flipped through it a few times, giggling, while I don’t believe he’s actually ever opened it. I suppose he and I really do have different ideas of what is funny… Anyhoo, this book is entitled : How to Insult, Abuse, and Insinuate in Classical Latin. I never took Latin during my school days and have always, in my mind, held those educated in the dead language to be of superior intelligence to myself. So all the while I get my giggles, I also hope that some of that smartness from the Latin is absorbing into my brain on a subconscious level. If not, oh well, it’s still funny.

This will be my first post in my new series dedicated solely to saying rude, sarcastic, funny, obnoxious, and sometimes self deprecating things in Latin. And I suppose since today is Saturday, I’ll just start doing it every Saturday and call it “Saturday Latin Insults”. The one I have chosen for today is appropriate because my face (heck, my whole body) is broken out in acne like that of a 14 year old. Seriously. I’m not sure what my problem is–normally my skin is rather radiant and lovely. But right now it’s pretty hideous. So with this first Latin quote, I take a stab at myself. But watch out, next week the stab may be at you!

“Colore ipso patriam aspernaris”

– “You disgrace your country, merely with your complexion.” (Cicero, In Pisonem)