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)
Yeah. Definitely getting the maxi-pad vibe from that one.
OMG :O
I think I just came up with a new invention! **flees to the Drawing Board**
I had a friend who called hers BOB, short for "battery operated boyfriend".
Is it Barba Papa's wife?
HEY! That's pervey with a capital P! ; )
I don't know what the cake is, but "Pervy Malcontents" needs to be the name of an Alternative Rock band.
HA HA HA Karate Mom that is awesome!
Loved the post, and I just scared my dad with my roar of laughter at Karate Mom's comment ... Poor Dad, he should be used to it by now, right ?
- Naomi
WV : rente > "Pay your rrrente, mademoiselle, orrr else ..."
Following up on Karate Moms idea...
Better than a talk. Its a cake for her 'becoming a Woman' Surprise Party. "Surprise!" What young teen wouldn't love having all her friends share in this momentous occasion? The Wreckor Should have written on it, "Happy 1st Maxi Pad Day!"
This is Barbabelle: http://www.barbapapa.fr/gb/presentation/barbabelle.html
Only a sorta-kinda resemblance. I don't think that was what the decorator was going for. Given the abundance of butterflies, I give a vote for generic girly caterpillar...
I actually didn't think of anything dirty until all the options were pointed out to me. Thanks, guys, thanks a lot.
I think its a pregnancy test.
I asked my 3 year old neice what it was. She said, "That girl thing is a... uh... uh...uh... I don't know what that thing is!" I'm with her!
To follow up on Karate Mom's comment...
Better than a private talk. Have a party to celebrate this milestone. What young teen girl wouldn't love having all her friends around to celebrate? "Surprise!"
The Wreckor forgot to write, "Happy 1st Maxi Pad Day"
Why the long face?
It looks like a neck-less head to me.
I must have a G rated brain... it looks like the face of a deco dame.
Re: Barbepapa
Quit making me learn stuff, Ariea! I come here for a laugh, not smarts! LOL
WV: serche. The serche for intelligent life is going to be sadly disappointed by THIS planet.
I'm thinking it's a weirdly distorted Barbabelle, or even a very feminized Barbapapa? (or it's just the work of a baker who vaguely knew what Barbapapa is, and just made something up)
I think it looks like a huge birth control Pill, though with the flowers, I'm getting the bad '70's "walk on the beach in soft focus/not so fresh feeling" vibe.
-Pamlin
On the plus side, it appears to be a prettily decorated vibrator!
Now I want a tee-shirt that says "Pervy Malcontent" on it. :D
Jen, John, thanks for letting us in on what's "shaking" in your lives. Errr...yeah something like that.
My purely innocent comment is surely this is supposed to be a baby shower cake and that's supposed to be a sweet baby and the swaddling blanket got left off of it on accident? (But in all honesty, I totally agree with Karate Mom, too!) :D
See, I thought that it might be a pink cell phone - flipped closed, of course.
Now, that's kind of a stretch, I know. Considering that the thing has eyes and stuff.
Still, you know how you can BeDazzle your cell phone. You know...if you wanna.
A textured tongue depressor?
It looks like a cheapo vibrator that would come as the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks....if there were adult versions of Cracker Jacks, that is...lol ;)
~Jaime
I thought it looked like a pregnancy test stick..
Okay, it doesn't really look like any of the things people have come up with (not your fault, people!), but here's my theory: The face, at least, looks kind of like Numberjack 1. So maybe it was a little girl's first birthday, and the customer said, "Like Numberjack 1. But pink. And with brown eyes, because our little girl has brown eyes. And more girly stuff like flowers and butterflies. Cool. Thanks!"
Jessie -
I thought it was a sock puppet ... until you turned it into a vibrator for me and now a vibrator it will always be.
I can't put my FINGER on it... but something about it makes me think of Dora the Explorer (I want to meet the writer who thought that rhymed). Perhaps in the original sketch for the show instead of Dora having a map, she had a pad, this being a way to ease girls into puberty. "I'm the pad, I'm the pad, I'm the pad, I'M THE PAD!!!"
Or, perhaps the little girl to whom this cake was given had just come from the doctor and this was the cake decorator's idea of a "cute" tongue suppressant.
-Hilary
Well I have to completely disagree with it being a barbapapa unless the decorator had never seen one and had only had it poorly described for them.
My 3 year old actually said it was numberjack one before I had asked her so I'd go with that.
On another note, her name for my parents aren't grandma and grandpa, she calls them barbamama and barbapapa.
It reminds me of some old characters on Sesame Street. Does anyone remember the little bugs who lived in Ernie's window box and made a little sketch about how they were going to go to the zoo? "We'll take the car to the zoo!" and they go off pushing the car to the zoo.
My first thought: " Little Miss Happy Tongue"
My second thought: eeeeuuww!!
my wv: bewde; many interpretations
are both baudy and lewd, therefore
bewde
Big Pink Happy Pill!?
As someone who had a brief stint selling sex toys, this does in fact look like a vibrator. What's worse is that it's not the creepiest vibrator-with-a-face I've seen...
Totally looks like a "personal massage device". Probably meant to be a catepillar, given the sheer number of butterflies.
I too think it look far more like a Maxi Pad...without wings obviously! :)
I wanted to point out that if you put the flowers upright then the smiling pink finger is tilted sideways. Maybe it's a surfboard.
I'm voting tampon, clearly to celebrate that most precious day in a young girls life when she realizes that her life is going to suck for one week out of every four for the next several decades.
I actually think it looks like it's from Miss Spider's Sunny Patch. It kinda has Spiderus' creepy marionettesque expression.
Oh my. Oh my oh my oh my. And you two just keep me going during school.:D
If you really want to get that vibe from a children's show, you should watch Yo Gabba Gabba. Muno will give you that vibe with texture! Heh.
It's glittery. GLITTERY.
*shudder*
(it's too bad because that is a lovely shade of lilac and the butterflies are cute. why couldn't they have gone for a bear or a bunny or something?)
WV:Surliqu--the spit curl on the forehead of a sulky child (who was the recipient of this cake!)
It looks like a maxi pad
Weeeell, there's only one person that it could be...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_%28Doctor_Who%29" rel="nofollow">Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 before her (or by then still his?) 530th surgery to prolong her life.
Well, I don't think it's cute AT all!
It has that doll-/ mannequin-like, Stepford Wives-y, totally -glazed/stoned stare, for one (many) thing(s).
I've SEEN that look in museums... *shudder*... which has always creeped me out , be it on a person or on a food item. I don't want to eat something while it's STARING at me, for crying out loud. Okay--so it isn't really *staring* at anything. BESIDE the point!
Why is she/it bald??
Hey---say "she/it" really fast~~
THAT'S IT!!
=^~.-^=
Ask the bakery anonymously. Please? I have to know what they were thinking now!
Looks to me like it's that most cherished of children's characters, Buzzy the Pocket Rocket.
No cartoon character I've ever seen.... Frankly those blank eyes are a little "Boys from Brazil", so I wasn't going in the vibe direction.
wv: expeci "We expeci more of these cakes!"
It's Polly Pocket Rocket!
Susan is totally right! Cassandra, from Doctor Who, was the first thing that came to mind when I saw it too.
Didn't read all the comments so don't know if anyone gave you this euphamism yet. BOB = Battery Operated Buddy!
Suddenly I have the urge to check if we have any AA's in the house...