Getting a Bad Vibe Here...
April 16, 2010 Attn Parents: This post is not appropriate for young children. Or adults, really, but I won't tell if you won't.
Since I know you're curious about the behind-the-scenes workings here at Cake Wrecks, I thought I'd provide you with the actual dialogue between me and John while discussing a cake.
This cake:
Ready? Here goes.Me: [calling to other room] "Hey, you don't know any vibrator puns, do you?"
John: [crossing the distance in approximately .7 seconds] "What are you working on?"
Me: "Oh, it's this one. I've got the 'bad vibe' thing going for the title, but now I'm at a loss. What else do you call these things? Do you know any euphemisms?"
John: [staring] "What's it supposed to be?"
Me: "Beats me. It just looks like a giant pink finger."
[both of us pause]
Me: "Hey, I bet that's one."
John: [unable to speak due to laughter]
John: [getting his breath back] "You HAVE to write this down."
Annnnd that's about it. By the way, I feel this is an excellent time to mention that, yes indeedy, we actually get paid now to do this. Living' the dream, people. We're livin' the dream.
Oh, and neither Lis B. nor I have any idea what that cake is supposed to be. However, since it was in the "kids cakes" gallery on the bakery's website I'm guessing it's probably some perfectly innocent character from a cartoon or something. No doubt many of you are preparing to point this out in the comments, too, so that the rest of us look like pervy malcontents. So, you know, I've got that to look forward to.
Livin' the dream, man. Livin'. The. Dream.
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Reader Comments (345)
My first thought was a decorated tongue depressor LOL but I love your "pink finger" brain!
Bwahahahahaha...thank you for giving me a chance to totally gross out my 13 yr old.
@Karate Mom....that is a great approach to "womanhood" - do you think it is a red velvet cake inside?
It's GOTTA be Numberjack 1. Look! Here's another one: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4263384026_45deb91908.jpg
Whatt'ya think?
I hope it has raspberry filling.
It's either a Hattifattener (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollyannsibley/3953532686/)
a smiling spring-fresh tampon, or a happy maggot. Yay!! dig in folks!
Well, the person who made the cake obviously has some talent. They just failed miserably at making it look like a particular item...
Thank you @ Wolvie Girl for the nice coffee au lait sinus rinse this morning..."Pinkbob Nopants"...I'll be laughing all day.
My first thought was that it was Mailbox from Blue's Clues. But, this (http://www.amazon.com/blues-clues-talking-mailbox/dp/B001X9KE3K) looks nothing like that.
WV: kingfula - the king's fula thought he was buying the perfect celebration cake.
You have GOT to share the website where you found this!
My hubby just said that this looks like something out of PeeWee Herman's worst LSD Hallucination. You know like what Charry the chair would have as a toy.
I thought it looked like the stick from the Lik-m-Ade stuff.
Perhaps it was supposed to be a glow worm?
looks like a happy "tampon applicator-shaped" cake. I never thought about getting a cake to celebrate a daughter's menses.
Because it's a well-intended, but bad idea.
@Trevor - you mean you could've "finger" it out?
and just wanted to mention that I shouldn't be answering phones at work while reading your blog - but at least I have a smile on my face!
My initial reaction was, "WTF!" That is still my reaction. Seriously. WTF is it supposed to be?
My word verification, btw, is 'insight.'
Whatever she is, she appears to be blushing.....
My first thought was it's a very happy Tounge Depressor! Saw AAAHHHH!!!
That's it, Damn tampons coming with faces on them. Theres environmentally "friendly" and ....well there are just no words...
It looks like a menstrual pad, if lady gaga designed it.
I just love you. You have to know that.... because now I'm singing "Good Vibrations" and wondering why my mom never had cake to talk about "life".
Sigh.
My WV is imniti. Which i read as "I'm naughty" - because I want a vibrator....because obviously - this one is happy.
I have a 4 year old and I have no idea, either. Personally, I saw a pregnancy stick.
It may be a blersha. It's my wv today and I think it fits.
My Five year old = The girl
Me = Me
Me: Hey honey, what do you think this is?
The Girl: I don't know... what is it?
Me: I have no idea.
The girl: It looks like a Popsicle stick that is smiling and is decorated for spring.... Oh maybe its one of those spring sticks.
Me: Spring sticks?
The Girl: with the ribbons that you run in circles around?
Me: A may pole?
The Girl: Yeah! but it has no ribbons... I don't know.
So we are also ignorant in this home, But The Husband also agrees with the vibe idea, though it say its a "freaky" one.
Another commenter mentioned a latex gloved finger, and now I am thinking maybe it is Patty Prostate Checker, friend to all men over 50.
all I could think, when I saw the cake, was "Have a Happy Period".
Looks way more like the NumberJack 1 than a Barbapapas character.
I had totally forgotten about Barbapapas, though, until this post! I LOVED those books as a kid!
Dee - After looking at this a looooonnnggg time, I finally asked my 4 yr. old her thoughts on this. She first told me she thought it was an angel (she still has that sweet innocence)then she said she thought it was a baby. Yes, I could see this in an odd demented way, a baby shower cake. Ok, so you would have to be really odd and demented to get that but I get it!
I'm pretty sure that's Humpty Dumpty's (nude and floral decorated) wife.
~Abbey
I think it is supposed to be Mrs. Puff from Spongebob OR a Thomas the Train character.
That is totally a finger cot cake for a proctologist convention.
I really, really, really need to see the bottom of the cake. Is it pointed, like the cardboard shape underneath or is it all rounded and oval-ly like the "head" of the thing.....
Soooo much to mull over!
I know!!! Kotex commissioned this cake, right? All it's missing is: "Have a happy period!" written on it to be complete.
I'd agree with the Barbapapa/Barbabelle guess. Especially once you see http://peluche.1001peluches.com/public/.barba_m.jpg" rel="nofollow">this pic
However, just to further complicate the issues there's also this http://www.sexapotheek.com/product/1290/Vibrator_Barbabelle_Spring_Crocus.html" rel="nofollow">Vibrator Barbabelle
which came up on the same image search. Hmmm. You're both right!
It needs a plus sign on it (perhaps that's just not in the screen shot) to announce a happy pregnancy. It looks a bit like a home pregnancy test - albeit a happy one - to me.
My first thought when you said it was in the kid's cakes section was "Tongue Depressor" for a kid who's getting over having their tonsils taken out.
It's uh...really weird, though. I think I'd rather go with a cake that looks like a bowl of ice cream...and some real ice cream, of course.
This has GOT to be a maxi-pad. It looks distinctly the shape of one, might have slightly ruffled edges?, and appears to exude that lovely, fresh scented-feeling... LOL!
However, the "pink finger" had me rolling. Great find.
- Layla
Underneath the icing, I bet it's one big spongy ladyfinger soaked in...espresso...uh, yeah.
I think it's a pregnancy test stick. So, the kid's category is totally appropriate, LOL.
Though it may seem boring after all the much more interesting and exciting responses, I looked up some images of Numberjacks 1 and am 99% sure that is what the cake is supposed to be. Good news though is that if you Google image 'numberjacks 1' you will get to see another cake someone made of the same character.
I still much prefer the idea of it being a giant vibrator though!)
To correct..
Hattifatteners do not smile. They freaked me as kid, because all they did was hunted thunderstorms and got zapped. :P
If it is Barbabelle, it should be deeper purple: http://www.naughtykitty.org/barbapapa/barbameet.html (His father being roundy and looking nothing like stick.)
Doesn't anyone else find this one a little creepy, in a VC Andrews/Stephen King way? Like something hidden for years in the lake is rising covered in purple ooze and is going to terrorize the unsuspecting family that recently moved in nearby without knowing the sinister events of that terrible spring day long ago when the cute birthday cake poisoned the whole party.
Oh wait. I haven't had my coffee yet.
WV: drogents -- Police officer: "What was the name of those people that lived here? They moved away after the investigation. Um, Drummond? No, Drogent! The Drogents! Nobody knows what happened to them..."
That's the prototype for the iPad. Duh.
Especially given the flowers and such, I thought it was one of the females from the "Changes" animation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7gwPasYKQ
Hmm..I also thought pregnancy test.
I thought your own comments were funny enough, but many of the comments from your readers were just as funny today. Wolvie Girl's comment about "Pinkbob Nopants" made me laugh out loud.
I really have no idea what it is. It looks like many things, but hey, at least it's smiling!!
At first I thought it may have been a cheerful pregnancy test. Hmmm. I can see it being an index finger for a one for a first birthday. *tilts head* at least I HOPE that's an INDEX finger.
This worries me.
-MJ
I think it's Epcot.
Ooh! It's definitely Abby Stance, the new character on Sesame Street who teaches young girls ways to "last" while holding out til marriage.