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.
- Related Wreckage: Funny Business
Reader Comments (345)
I am laughing too hard :D
Jaime said...
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
Huh. And I thought it was a pantyliner.....without the wings of course. Maybe its a first period cake? Birds and Bees? Eeeerrr...butterflies? Oh, thats where the wings are!
Kira B.
i think its ment 2 b number 1 from numberjacks
Does it have a pink cross or minus sign at one end? It looks an awful lot like a pregnancy test to me.
Maxi pad, pregnancy test, tongue depressor, take your pick. but why it has a female face and is in a garden of flowers is beyond me. feminine issues, I presume.
Duhh... its a dancing tampon.
Can't you TELL?
Every 11 year old girl wants one at her birthday party. Look how HAPPY she is. Have a happy period!
LOL..pervy malcontents. Y'all are funny
Well, perhaps this reveals my macabre sense of humor... but I thought it was a pastel casket, at first. It does look like it's about to be lowered into the ground - as it should be.
I mean, really, someone bury this thing, quick.
Looks like the cap end of a pregnancy pee-stick to me.
I think it's a cake given to a new gardener - meant to be representative of that phrase "green thumb" (hints the flowers and such)... aka. i think it's a thumb, but they didnt want to actually make it green because they were afraid you wouldnt know what the cake was supposed to be.
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that's a joke. get it? because clearly, we dont know what it is regardless of the color!
If it's a Numberjacks 1, then I have to say, they did a better job than this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruceandjackie/4263384026/
I got all shook up when I saw this thing. . . It seems to have crated quite a buzz!
(You wanted vibrator puns, right?!?)
As for the BOB reference: I used to work in a department where our boss' boss was Bob. It was so challenging to work for him he became a verb, as in: You're going to a co-worker's desk, and they're just getting off the phone with Bob. You ask if she can go to lunch. She replies, "No, I can't go to lunch today. I just got Bobbed and now I'm swamped."
This gives a whole new meaning to the term "I've just been Bobbed."
Thanks for the laughs!
I was completely innoccent and thought it was a female version of Thumb Man... :S
i think its a numberjack - tho the colour isn't quite right.
http://www.numberjacks.co.uk/adults/content/view/108/61/
was it from a British site - as im British and guessed pretty much straight away !
lots of funny comments tho !
My 5 year old says it's a corn dog. I asked why and he said because of the shape. Then I asked him about the color and he said maybe it's part of a butterfly. That clears it up right?
WV: wainati--what your mind becomes when you look at too many of these perversions of cakes
WV: confl--I'm so confl, I just can't figure it out!
WV: actrali--I hope it isn't actrali supposed to be what everyone thinks it is...
Now here's a thought.... If one *were* to actually order a cake for the purpose of "the talk", how badly do you think the bakery would mess that one up?
"umm what's this? It's supposed to look like a friendly maxi pad...."
"It doesn't look like that at all..."
LOL
This seems like either a tampon or what my students call a BOB--Battery Operated Boyfriend. Either way it;s just odd.
Tampon?
Ooo, maybe it's the mutant baby from the science fiction classic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Only_a_Mother" rel="nofollow">"That Only a Mother"!...and as such, a poignant reminder of the dangers of radiation.
wv: eaton
Or maybe its arms and legs have simply already been eaton.
OMG! WOLVIE GIRL's comment..."pinkbob NoPants...HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHA!!"
Is it Prince Charles?
I'm throwing my vote behind the number "1" from Numberjacks. A creepy, Stepfordy, dragqueen version of that character, but there is enough resemblance in the face for my vote. Rather popular for cakes, but usually in a recognizable version.
I think it looks like a show here in the uk called the numberjacks. Its a show about numbers saving the day. Thats what i think.
I think it might be a character from a uk show called the "NUMBERJACKS". Its a show about numbers saving the day. It could be no. 1
It's a worm
Karate Mom's idea was the most awesome! :) Since I have two girls; I'll have to remember that. First I have to get through the potty training stage...
"Well, I, for one, think that it's the perfect cake to accompany "The Talk" with your 10 to 13 year old daughter because it looks like a fancifully decorated maxi pad.
"Honey, we need to talk. But first, have some cake. You're going to be a woman soon, and...."
a poorly shaped humpty dumpty? or an extremely smooth tampon.
My vibrator Pun:
It's a Dil - Doh!
My friends call them BOBs = battery operated boyfriends.
Using it for "the talk" might not be so far-fetched--my school used to show the girls a film in which a mom explains things by making a pancake shaped like a uterus with fallopian tubes! Thanks for the memory.
Definitally a tampon applicator. lol
I dunno... To me it just looks like a huge, happy tampon...
You know, if you add a string to the bottom of it, it looks like not a maxi but something other that is used for the same pupose. Try giving a piece of this cake to your male relative..here honey, have a piece of tampon cake. Bet that gets them excited.
teeheehee
there's no cartoon character that looks like that.
I wanted to say dil-dough so bad that I didn't have time to read the rest of the comments.
Dil-dough, dil-dough, dil-dough.
Wolvie Girl said: There used to be a cartoon character called Pinky but he was a mouse. Maybe this is Spongebob's somewhat disturbed sea cucumber friend, Pinkbob Nopants.
I agree that it's a Bob.
Battery
Operated
Buddy
Or the tongue B.O.B., we saw at a "toy" party once.
wv: unimate...yup...that's what it is...like a unicycle...one and you.*LOL*
It is Thomas the Tank Engine's distant cousin, Tillie the Tombstone. Notice the family resemblance? Notice that she is pushing up daisies? No? I got nothing.
Yeah....I'd have to say it's either that Numberjack thing or some sort of sanitary napkin/tampon. At first glance I thought, "A happy Maxi-pad?"
I feel old.
Its obviously a pink trimline phone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimline_telephone
Here is a pink one for sale on Etsy (Not mine, no affiliation.)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/40541573/vintage-pink-trimline-phone
If you look very closely you can just make out the lettering at the bottom:
Congratulations on your proctology degree!
-PKM
It's the "Have a Happy Period Cake."
Because sometimes, when you're dealing with that crap for a week, you need a slice of cake.
Honestly?? My first thought was as Adipose, but it's not quite short enough or round enough, but it is what I thought.
What a lovely color for a vibrat.. I mean cake. With pretty butterflies and flowers to go with it. Now if only the wreckerator gave a hint of what that thing is.. I wouldn't let any kid near that thing since it could be a demented finger disguised as a friendly.. whatever it is.. lol.
It's totally a pantyliner with a face.
Everyone's comments have me laughing till I cry!
I'm pretty sure it is for a first birthday. I've seen similar napkins with plaid, daisies and butterflies. Sure is weird looking though!!
http://www.pixiedustcakes.co.uk/numberjacks_detail_1.jpg
I think numberjack is a good option, Number 1 is also purple on this cake.
Oh look. It's Margaret's birthday cake. (re: Are You There God? it's Me Margaret.)
On another note, I do want to take red frosting and scribble:
"Have a Happy Period!"
This is funny. It is. I am just pissed I missed the turd cake game yesterday. You mentioned Estonia and I was like, dude, I live in an Armenian village! And then I couldn't get my internet to work to enter. But you should know that someone in a tiny village in armenia is reading this regularly, laughing, and sharing it with my armenian friends.
When I saw this, the first thing that came to mind was "vibrator!" But I have a "feeling" that's not what it is.
It could be a tampon...