Tuesday
Dec162008
But Where are the Blue Birds?
December 16, 2008 So Dawn W. was throwing a Wizard of Oz cast party, and she knew better than to order anything as complicated as a Yellow Brick Road cake. So instead, she simply asked for a cake with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on it.
Now, if you've read this blog for any time at all, then you're probably expecting the same thing I was - an inscription that looks like this:
"Some Wear"
The Rainbow
The Rainbow
I'm pleased to report that's NOT what happened. No, Dawn received something far more...colorful.
At first I thought the decorator was just being clever, but then I noticed the "Somewheres". Yeah. Well, there went that theory.
Reader Comments (87)
I agree with arcOH. I am most concerned with the failed connection of w to h.
Wow. That rainbow.
U-G-L-Y YOU AIN'T GOT NO ALIBI YOU UGLY!
How hard is it people.
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet.
I thought it said "somewhores". A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste!
~Sara
It looked like "Somewhered" to me. Maybe it's a new verb meaning "I went somewhere." Just, "I somewhered."
And to the decorator's credit, the colors are sort of in reverse order... violet, pink, yellow and green go in that order... it just doesn't start with violet. And there are like four other colors missing.
... ok so it's not in order :D
I tried.
It's even more funny when you realize that the 'e' in somewheres looks kind of like an 'o'. yeah...
This is completely ridiculous. As usual I'm torn between staring in horror and laughing my pants off.
wow...that's cute.
I mean, if a 3 year old did it, it'd be cute.
I agree with Sara and Randy!
I see "SOMEWHORES" too!
Hilarious!
I feel like there are times when an incorrect rainbow can be excused. Really, if someone sort of combines blue and indigo, I'm not going to get all worked up about it. Or if a child's birthday cake is deliberately done in a cartoony style and the rainbow only has red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, it's fine.
But they could at least get it kind of in order.
I just like to think of alternatives. If you've ever seen a double rainbow, you will have noticed that the colors reverse on the outside one, so this could be the outside (reverse order) of a double rainbow. The area between the two rainbows is sort of purply-black (I like to think of it as ultraviolet).
But I doubt that this decorator ever bothered to look at a rainbow.
I'm guessing the words "Somewhere's over the rainbow" featured somewhere in that conversation...
Fred from somewhere over Australia
sooommmmeWHEEERESSS over the raiinbowww!
I'm assuming that the decorator hadn't been introduced to Roy G. Biv as a child, hm?
If they only had a brain!!!!!
That's the worst looking rainbow I've ever seen. Hasn't he ever heard of ROY G BIV?
Amy.mangos said...
"I think "somewheres" comes from the increasingly popular txting spelling and grammar rules. I have seen high school papers using such language, and it makes me very, very sad for the fate of the English language."
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Or not.
I've heard ADULTS talk this way-plenty of times. "Somewheres," "anyways," and many others. It's not new at all.
That fate is sealed, I'm afraid.
Wow. At least it was over, not under the rainbow!
haha... that is AWESOME!
I would have been expecting "Some Where Over the Rainbow," but I guess people "Wear" things over the rainbow too?
So simple, but so wrecky.
Maybe the "decorator" was Gollum: "Somewheres over the rainbowsess, precioussssssssssssss!"
Such potential for utter hilarity...wasted by lack of adequate culture AND grammar
WOO-HOO! I was THRILLED to see this on Cake Wrecks today! I'm the submitter and yes - it's totally real. This happened to me a couple of years ago...and I'm SO happy I snapped a photo before it was gone. The "decorator" was a 45ish year-old woman at Sobeys. I almost refused to take the cake when I saw it, but on second thought, it was just too funny. I'm glad you all thought so too!
And yes, we sang "Somewheressss, over the rainbow" all night.
Classic!
As to the Blue Birds - they must be over the White Cliffs of Dover. (And I dread to think what a wreckorater would make of that!
These just keep getting better!
possibly a miss-translation of an idea.
call-taker: "hey I have a sweet idea, they want a somewhere over the rainbow cake so we do a cake with a rainbow on it, and get this the somewhere's over the rainbow right?
cake decorating chimp slave: ook?
I love it... Sadly, as much as the "S" annoys me the reverse order of the rainbow colors is WORSE to me, somehow. ROYGBIV people! ROY G BIV! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRG
I've lost my faith in cake decorators now. I've gotten past the missed marks and the fugly before but that....that's just sad.
Oh my word verification is "whine" Ha ha ha ha
I think you mean "udjumakashun sistum"
sendingtheclowns: Talk like that? Yes, we've all done it. Write it out? No, because we understand that spelling is important when you're getting paid for it!
I think it would have been a bit cute of it said, "Somewhere...", wasn't so close to the rainbow, and maybe...okay, I give up. But it could have been cute.
oh my goodness, that is......clever? this makes me laugh even more, because I am actually making a Wizard of Oz cake in Jaunary for a little girl. It's going to have an emerald city, fondant yellow brick road, poppy field and a rock candy rainbow! The cake in this post is just....disappointing.
New England cake?
Everyone knows that the order of rainbow colors go turquoise, yellow, pink... purple. er..
It doesn't say "somewheres" because the cursive "w" wouldn't look that way...it's more like a jacked up cursive "u". I think.
I don't know... I think it might say "Somewhereo," like "Somewhereo over the rainbow!"
It looks like the decorator/wreckorator aborted the phrase, like (s)he intended to write SomewhereovertheRainbow without spacing the words, and then for some unforeseen reason (i.e.was distracted ) stopped. Then forgot to finish it?