Clean-Up on Aisle 12
February 26, 2010 Parental Note: Today's Wreck may expand your child's vocabulary in some unsavory ways.
When Steve S.'s coworker received a transfer to a different branch, the store decided to get the coworker a going-away cake. The inscription was your typical "You make our store better!" kind of thing.
Now, normally this wouldn't be a problem, no matter how badly the Wreckerator mangles the inscription.
But then, normally the company in question is NOT BJ's Wholesale Club.
Which, naturally, someone chose to abbreviate.
Lunch break just got awkward.I would like to point out that Steve submitted this Wreck because "better" looks like "bitter" - and he thought that was funnily appropriate. And it is, but clearly Steve's mind did not go to the gutter where the rest of ours are. (More's the pity.)
- Related Wreckage: Marcus and the New Job
Reader Comments (100)
Damn, sometimes I wish to be a native english speaker. It took me a 10 Minutes of endless browsing through the comment section to figure it out.
I feel like a fool but have laughed about it anyway.
Love it ;)
Hahahahaha! I LOVE this! Poor Steve sure is naive though, isn't he?
Oh where's my darn tissues when I need them?
word veri: deturier.
If you work at BJ's and transfer to another store, let this be a deturier to you too!
XD I love it c:
A "BJ" cake?
I wouldn't touch the icing on that cake with a 10-foot pole.
(insert additional dirty jokes here)
Melissbaker1 - I'm with you. I had no idea.
Maybe BJ's IS better with you?
My mind goes into the gutter just as easily as anyone else's, but thinking this one is a gutter-wreck is way off the mark. "BJ's" is the name of the place they work. If you keep that in mind then this is obviously not a mistake or a poor abbreviation or even close to a "dirty word". The only questionable thing on this cake is the "are" vs. "is" quandry. BJ is NOT all that common an abbreviation for the gutter thing. As far as I'm concerned the cakes are usually bad enough or funny enough on their own. I don't think every wreck is just one step away from X-rated!! I have been noticing more and more lately that sometimes you push things a bit too far in a search for the snide or titillating joke. That's a label this cake does not deserve. After all, as someone once said (it might even have been Freud),
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Are you sure this wasn't an intentional pun?
I'm sure people who work at a place called "BJ's" know lots of jokes about the name of the store.
Of course, the real problem is that the wreckorator wrote "are" instead of "Epcot."
I did not get it and had to read the comments to ge the joke....
My visa check card number was recently stolen. The first fraudulent charge was for $130 in BJs...gift cards...
Oh man.. cannot stop the hysterical laughter. My husband was reading over my shoulder and nearly choked on a cookie he was eating. Serves us right for looking while eating lol.
It's only 2:06 AM, and this just made my day.
@ Mellodee--
I have to disagree that this is not a common abbreviation. I have known of this term for over 20 years, which would put the first time I knew of it back in junior high, if not before, and for the record, I am not even the most fast-living of people. It was ruled out as consideration for my children's initials, in fact, for their own sakes in junior high one day. It's the same reason that no one names their child Richard anymore, either. That's just being proactive. ;)
Maybe the one who ordered the cake was an ex-girlfriend or "buddy"--"better" if the cake ordered and cake recipient were on good terms, "bitter" if not. The cake is either a secret message if they're on good terms, or an insult if not, considering most of us are going to read it the way we read it.
Terry-Lee, you are totally right. That's what I thought. the fact they screwed up the verb is what makes this so much funnier and suggestive.
That is funny as heck! I wonder what the other epople seeing this cake thought....lol
It actually took me a few minutes to figure out what you were talking about! I guess that the joke whooshed over my head.
For the record, I just thought that you were making fun of the grammar or something.
Thank goodness for Gary.
I can't believe there is so much conversation about grammar.
It is cake. And it is funny.
Holy smokes, that's too funny!
What's the big deal - it's the name of the store ;)
I think all of the talk about grammar makes it that much funnier.
Heather's post, at 2/26 11:02 a.m.: "My mind immediately went into the gutter, came back out, and then crashed into it again," describes this cake wreck perfectly.
My mind went where everyone else's did. Love this site.
I just didn't get it at first!
I thought about it for a while.
Then started laughing.
And for the lady boycotting this site .....come on,,,,,you'll be back and you know it!
this is one cake...and it wasn't meant to be nasty on purpose....isn't this the whole idea of cake wrecks anyway???
Ten bucks says the decorator was giggling so much that it's why the word "better" looks like "bitter" I know I would be.
fake. good idea though.
Ha Ha. I thought the same thing as Anonymous. The cake was made in the BJ's bakery.
I used to shop at BJ's for Gas, where they had extra long hoses at the pump.
Sarah
those insulted have dirty minds....
i just didn't get it for the longest time...i never would have thot that till i saw people getting mad
Yeah, that it a VERY common term for a specific "act." And I'm a total prude, so get with it people!
Funny, funny cake.
One of the best! Definitely worth a LOL!
I can't even imagine when or where Mellodee went to Jr. High School if BJ is not a common abbreviation (for something other than a store)for her.
I am not proud to admit it, but I think that cake is funny whether it says "better" or "bitter." The subject-verb agreement is just the icing on the cake.
@ Mellodee:
...until it's a cigar at BJ's.
whoever wrote this:
I Figured I'd Say It First... Sarcastically said...
Okay, I'll go first...
"""How dare you corrupt everyone's minds! This is disgusting and vulgar and MY KIDS READ THIS WITH ME! I am boycotting this site now! And you think for one minute that Blah Blah Blah!"""
I'm shocked! how does your KIDS even know what BJ stands for??? other then names, which it didn't for you information.. Get your kids and your mind out of the gutter....ugh!
I guess congratulations are in order for Steve. Now everyone know. ;) HAHA!
I feel sorry for the people who don't get it. Well, really, I feel sorry for their husbands : ) Awesome cake...
Anonymous @ 2:18,
that comment was written by "I figured I'd say it first... Sarcastically". Hopefully you were being sarcastic too, because she definitely was.
btw, I totally took forever to figure this cake out :P.
I'm not sure what's funnier ... the wreck itself ... or all the comments after!!
Yes, my mind went "there" ... And laughed!!!
Um, I think Steve's mind DID go to the gutter. I mean, have you ever had experience with a BJ? Bitter indeed. *shudder* Unless your man's been eating a lotta fresh fruit. That does seem to help...
@ Anonymous
February 27, 2010 3:49 PM
Dude they were being Sarcastic. Because they knew SOMEONE was going to get all prudish about it.
btw: it was soooo funny.
Alexia
WV: conshes. I can't do it. lol too funny.
HEY JEN!
Check out this cake wreck/fail:
http://failblog.org/2009/10/21/cake-fail-3/#comments
Spelling fail!
-Madison
Growing up behind a BJ's store, I thought I had heard all the jokes.
This one takes the cake.
Er, no pun intended.
As a public school teacher in suburban America, I'm sorry to tell all you parents out there that if your child is in the 6th grade or above, they probably know what this term implies. Your denial of this is where the trouble really starts. Talk to your children, please!
My husband's first response (following his hysterical laughter) was "I hope it's not Bavarian cream-filled!"
Actually, if you re-read Jen's post she says that the company in question is NOT BJ's Wholesale. The baker took it upon themselves to abbreviate the company's name...whatever that was.
In all honesty...I don't get it... Could someone please explain...
Oh wait...I just read the comments...now I get it...ew...
This was the funniest thing ever! Thanks for posting. I still can't stop laughing! HA, HA, HA!!!!
A real hummer-dinger of a cake.
Wow, Joseph Pentangelo, your penchant for grammatical perfection must make you the life of every party! While you are absolutely correct in your assessment, you apparently fail to appreciate the humor of it. Correct papers some other time...lighten up and LAUGH a little, it was funny!
Yeah, I think Steve's mind *did* go to the gutter on this one...anyone that's ever been a "giver" (so to speak) can attest that they are indeed quite (ahem) bitter. Now, if they ARE better with Steve, well, YAY Steve! What's your secret? I need to tell my hubby asap! (I really am a giver at heart, but if we can fix that bitter problem, I'll be a much happier wife!):P
The baker must have done this on purpose. First, BJs is not possessive. Second, if they were thinking clean, then they would have at least said IS instead of ARE...
At first I missed the gutter where everyone's minds landed in until I found out by reading previous post that 'BJs' can be an abbreviation for 'BlowJobs' oopsie!