Funny phrases in Latin...

[Holly in FL]

My sister sent this to me and told me someone in her office sent it out to everyone.

~Holly

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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Noli me vocate, ego te vocabo.
Don't call me, I'll call you.

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business!

Canis meus id comedit.
My dog ate it.

Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[Amy in Orlando]

I love these. Here's one I just put up on our wall:

Stultus est sicut stultus facit. -- Stupid is as Stupid Does.

[Sharon H in IL]

Just catching up on the boards and saw this, Holly. Hilarious! Thank you!