Any Occasion Will Do
September 24, 2008 I'm the type who thinks cakes are good for any occasion. Apparently, so are the people who ordered these:
After all, how often do you get to congratulate someone on "completeing" their jail sentence?
Wow, that often? Ok, never mind.
(Say, are those orange things supposed to be flowers or carrots? Either way, I'd be sorely tempted to stick some plastic babies on them.)
Alright, for those of you who are being congratulated: make sure you always thank the ones with the fat checkbooks.
Yay appropriate quotation marks! And thank goodness the decorator didn't choose to take a more literal approach to a cake celebrating potty-training.
Pete and Pete's lady, this one's for you:
So Ladies, here's a tip:
Be sure to buy your man a cake
When he gets the ol' snip-snip!
Yeah, I know: I missed my calling as a traveling troubadour.
Thanks to Wreckporters Monique R., Kyla S., and Stephanie P.!
Also, in the interests of full disclosure: the Bail cake was a gag. The others are legit, as far as I know.
Reader Comments (105)
First off wow! People will celebrate just about anything just for the sake of eating cake. I thought about getting a potty cake for my son when he was potty trained but figured it would have been a waste of money since I figured he would have a relapse. Which yes he did LOL.
As for the calenders I have the perfect place to have them made and sold plus the owners of this site (if they make them) gets to keep some of the profits from those who buy them. I highly encourage them to check it out:
http://www.zazzle.com/create
What a great idea a cake wrecks calendar would be!! A great gift for that person who has everything!!!
Vicki
LOVED the vasectomy cake. I think physicians everywhere who perform vasectomies should provide the vasectomized with a gift certificate for such a cake. Or at least provide a smaller version at discharge from a surgi-center (Along with the obligatory bag of frozen peas!).
However, the decor should consist of dying or trapped spermies instead of roses. Much more symbolic and meaningful!
A vasectomy cake! I wish I had thought about that when hubby had the snip earlier this year! I'm notorious for cake occasions at our house (the 6 month old got a half-circle cake for his half birthday, get it?), so a vasectomy cake would have been perfect! I'm with the other poster who got her kids new undies when potty trained, but a cake would have been fun! I'll remember that for next time!
OMG...one of my dearest online friends is named Pete! But he and his wife have grandkids, so it probably wasn't for him...but I wouldn't put it past his wife to get this for him ;)
Too funny!
My mother bought a cake when I got my period. I was mortified. It said "welcome to womanhood."
OK. You CRACK me up every DAY with these cakes.
hahahaha
I was thinking the same thing about the orange carrots and the babies.
heeheehee
I love this blog!
AND there's ALWAYS a good reason for CAKE!!!
I requested the calendars --
and I'd like to add to my order with a dozen or so Wrecks on greeting cards.
I'd like to give the nakedmohawkbabyjockeys to all my expectant friends. And hey, with today's batch, I've truly got a card for every occasion.
*sobbing* ...please, please, pretty please!?!
I, too, want to jump on the calendar bandwagon. Let us know if you decide to do one. I would buy about 10 for my friends.
I am going to get one of those vasectomy cakes for my husband. What better reason to celebrate.
Jen ~ I am a graphic designer ... I certainly can design a "Cake Wrecks" calendar for you ...
No wonder Americans are obsese!
Get out of jail?
Celebrate with cake!
Used the toilet?
Celebrate with a cake!
Voluntarily give up your fertility?
Celebrate with a cake!
When do we get so see
"Congratulations Jenny on Becoming a Woman" With all red roses and borders, of course...
I also thought of "Back to the Future" upon seeing the first cake. At least that one had an amusing illustration on it ...
Hmmm - I think my hubby would agree - the chicken wings and bottle of scotch he got post-vasectomy trump the cake any day of the week! LMAO!
I love how the vasectomy cake has a nice "pairing" of *ahem* round (some might say, "ball-shaped")blue (blue!) roses, dangling from severed little green vas deferens--I mean, rosebud--stems.
I am totally behind the potty training cake, as well. After finally getting little Aiden on the toilet, I am sure this mom wanted some cake for herself!! (It's a long process!)
As to the vasectomy cake...We won't go there! ;-)
holy cow.
Can't......stop.......laughing......
Hmmmm.. a potty training cake.. what a GOOD IDEA!! why didn't I think of this sooner?!
"Okay son... once you start using the potty.. you get CAKE to celebrate!" ...
maybe that will work? hmmmm..
I loved your blog. I can't read it during the day though because I don't want to burst out laughing in court (I am the clerk) - that would be bad!
a cake for going potty?! are you kidding me? is there a special one for going poo-poo?? LOL
My husband recently got snipped. I feel very sad that this idea didn't come to me sooner! I guess I could say, "Congratulations on your successful vasectomy!!" HAHA! That cracked me up!
I feel like I've been potty training my middle child forever and I'd be more than happy to make a congrats cake for him once we're finally done :)
- Julie
(http://www.cakesandkids.com)
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http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
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Huh. Vasectomies, jail and potties. I'm thinking of some cake occasions I could do in my house for teen boys-
I love you! You put the seat down!
Thank you for using the same glass more than once!
You took the trash out, way to go!
Congrats! That is the laundry hamper!
We could do cake morning, noon and night here....
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Your blog frequently makes me laugh out loud! I just made a spectacle of myself while doing this in the Barnes and Noble cafe (where I am availing myself of the free WiFi because I still have no phone or electricity thanks to Hurricane Ike).
Been reading the wrecks for a couple months now. Awesomely terrible wrecks. (Criticism ahead)
I'm sorry, but those quotation marks ARE appropriate because "go" is being used ironically. Remember class, what is irony? "The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention" Thank you, Mr. Bender, now finish watching Fry's Opera.
See, go being used as a euphemism for bodily evacuation and go used in the nebulous, encouraging sense. (/criticism)
Love the blog, though! :-)
@braingaius: [scratching head] Er, I was actually celebrating the correct usage of those quotation marks when I said "Yay appropriate quotation marks!"
See, for once I WASN'T being sarcastic. ;)
These are truly truly fantastic..great wreckporting.
On the first one I read
"Congradulations
on completing
you fail sentence"
Which would also have been funny lol
wow... that's so appropriate to have a cake with pretty flowers on it after a vasectomy... Bet Pete feels like a REAL man now.
A friend of mine is active in AA. At the end of each month, his group has a birthday cake for those who celebrated "sobriety birthdays" that month. When it was his turn to buy the cake, he had it read: "Happy Birthday Drunks"
I made my son a red velvet cake when he potty trained (It was an Elmo thing)...I should have realized that one was for "Welcome to Womanhood."
My bad.
I'm going back to see if the fireman cake might have been a better decorative background to use to bare, er, bear the vasectomy message. And does anyone think that "hose" being held by Happy Harriot on the fireman cake represents the common denominator between the jail sentence, the commode and the vasectomy? Lois
I'm thinking these are all thematically related. See, Pete should be congratulated on the vasectomy, because now he won't have any more no-good kids who are destined to be imprisoned. Hm. Not sure how the potty fits into this, though. A little help?
Niamh, maybe if you'd gotten your kid a cake, he wouldn't have relapsed...;)
Mine just started making it through the night without accidents. I'm thinking definitely cake worthy. =D
i seriously think this is the best blog of all time.
Surely there are enough bad cakes out there for some sort of 'cake a week' desk calendar?
I'd buy it for sure - as long as you ship to the UK!
OK then.........LOL. And "completing" is spelled wrong too. All the lovely people out there decorating cakes with words who don't know how to spell.........it just cracks me up
I've just discovered your blog site and can I just say that I've appreciated every laugh and giggle you help to provide.
But, really, a vasectomy cake? Isn't anything sacred anymore?
Truly...let them ALL eat cake has new meaning!
My husband and I got a cake to celebrate his vasectomy, but I never thought to get it personalized. Darn! Missed opportunity.
The jail cakes remind me of the one from Back to the Future for Uncle Jailbird Joey. ~ Evil Jim
Ah, bruised blue roses. The perfect decoration for a vasectomy cake. especially if attached to a pair of blue blobs of icing that look like dubiously like more organs.
The first one: Was it carrot cake?
oh, yvonne and amy! your comments had me cracking up!
i am having trouble getting my little boy potty trained, but when we DO get there..i'm buying a cake for ME!!
this site cracks me up! i am about to go into labor (37 weeks!)!
I love the calendar idea. But there are so many random cake occasions! You need a page a day calendar so you can include all the new cake-worthy holidays and occasions (with witty verses and banter)!
(No, really, PLEASE? I would send them to SO many people.)
(I fully realize this takes the Cake Wreck Calendar idea out of the realistic possibility range but figured I'd run with it.)
Cakes are great as usual!
O.k ditto on the whole calendar thing. You Jen, gurl, would be making money hand over fist!
Give me a heads up when you make them. (I say when because there is no "if" about that hon! You should make one.) Jen your blog rocks!
To Pam: Keep your head up babe, we're praying for you here at Riverside Chruch in New York and will be sending you guys down there some supplies and such.
Good luck!
(Free Wi-fi rules, don't it Pam!)
I sent in the vasectomy pic and yes, the woman at the Stop & Shop bakery was amused at the personalization.
Ok...so the bail cake was mine for my 19th birthday. I feel like I need to share the story.
As was disclosed, it WAS a gag (I was not in jail.)
I was throwing myself a birthday party and thought it would be totally egotistic to order myself a cake that said "Happy Birthday Kyla!" I couldn't possibly dream of going cakeless, so my friends and I brainstormed for the most bizarre cake wish we could think of...we finally picked after going through Dairy Queen's list of images they could ice onto the cake.
We spent much of the party taking pictures and posing behind some prison-bar chairs that I had. It definitely the highlight of the party!
As a side note, I feel like this blog inspires me to go out and purposely try to find wrecks, rather than waste my time with awesome cakes...wrecks are much more fun!