Tuesday
Aug032010
A Seedy Celebration
August 3, 2010 It's National Watermelon Day.
FINALLY.
And you know what that means, right?
Time to buy a cake.
Do those look like minnows? Just a tad, Pole.(No, I've never met anyone named "Pole" before, either. But - BUT - John is Polish. So...um...maybe I sometimes affectionately refer to him as "Pole," ok? You don't know. Look, bottom line: just WORK WITH THE PUN, people, ok? Work...with the pun.)
So, how can YOU celebrate National Watermelon Day?
With healthy stuff, of course!
You know, like oil-soaked Cheetos:
Erm. Wrong oil.Or a traditional "ICU" Melon:
Don't make me call Gallagher, punk.Or perhaps some exotic plant life:
"FEED ME, SEYMOUR!"Or, um, vampire ants?
"Vlad! Mortimor! Pull out! Ve've sucked 'er dry!Teresa, Emily B., Beth, Missy M., & Erica H., I think I'm going to need a "Beware Mortimor the Vampire Ant" t-shirt. Can any of you do something about that?
>:= <--That's my vampire ant emoticon. You like?
Reader Comments (87)
So, first of all, that juicy looking one really DOES look just like Audrey II! Crazy...
Also, "Pole" could be a last name, yeah? Like in the Chronicles of Narnia, Jill goes by her last name, Pole almost the whole time.
Hahaha!!! Gallagher!
(but the "ants" look more like leeches on the "oily" melon) *shudder*
Ewwww.... There's sperm on my watermelon.
Seedy... haha. I like it!
So I was going to mention Jill Pole from the Chronicles of Narnia, but Gina got there first. :<
That ICU watermelon is freaking me out. It's eyes follow me wherever I am in the room. Yikes!
Ooh! I can make you a shirt like that! Or you can make one for yourself...
http://spreadshirt.com
LOL, love that last one!
*seconds Gina's Narnia vote*
And I love the emoticon.
Those are not oil-soaked cheetos... those are clearly leaches.
Little Shop of Horrors! One of my all time faves! I gotta say though, that "watermelon" looks WAY scarier than Audrey II ever did!!
I want Crazy Lou! Bring back Crazy Lou!!!
Feed me Seymour. Feed me all night lo-ong!
Hurray for Little Shop of Horrors, one of the cheesiest B-horror movies made into a hilarious musical. Adding watermelon would have indeed made it creepier.
Feed me Seymour. Best line. EVER!
I'm on Team Mortimer!
My daughter said, "Hey! There's worms on that cake!" when she saw that second one. :)
Have any of these wreckerators actually seen a watermelon?
Does the second one look like the nucleus to a cell to anyone else?
And why would anyone want to eat anything that looks like squished spiders on it?!?
I feel shame. Other people went to the Narnia reference with "Pole." I went to the junior-high snickering at calling your husband that...
And, btw, I love the vampire ant emoticon!
Gina beat all of us...Jill Pole was my immediate thought! :)
Read "The Silver Chair" by C.S. Lewis and you'll know who Pole is:) There really is someone of that name!!
Haha, did you ever read "Bunnicula" as a child? The last cake reminds me of one of those books... "IT'S A WHITE ZUCCHINI!" Okay, you have to read it to get it, but it's a fond memory. ;)
The emoticon reminds me more of the rabbit from Monty Python's Holy Grail!
Which makes sense, because I thought the vampire ants must be working with Bunnicula!
http://www.amazon.com/Bunnicula-Rabbit-Tale-Mystery-Deborah-Howe/dp/1416928170/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1280847478&sr=1-1
Err, cake #2? The olive looking thing...you've got caterpilliars :P
What about Polgara's nickname, from David Edding's Belgariad/Mallorean series? (Though I pronounce it more like "pahl" in my head...)
Reminds me of a pun on utensil I once tried, assuming there's a name "Sil" out there...
Oh, and...those cakes are wrecky. Mm-hmm.
Everyone else is laughing about the ants, or Pole... but I'm still snickering at the first couple of lines. Why buy a CAKE on Watermelon Day?
Cake #2 looks like it was decorated by my elderly cat who doesn't always make it all the way into the litter box.
Wow, first tadpoles and then...leeches! Yes, just what I wanted on my cake! And I would SO eat that big cootie-lipped cake, a cookie is still a cookie. :) Love the Gallagher reference (whatever happened to him? He was hilarious! Someone should do a Gallagher cake!)
Hey! I'm Polish too! :)
These are awesome. I love that national watermelon day is in the summer. I guess that makes sense haha. But what's more awesome is that I'm sitting on the couch next to an open window and need a blanket on national watermelon day. I love living in the northwest.
Pole is also a character in the Ender's Game series (I think she's featured a lot Ender's Shadow).
Hip hip for Pole!
ewww, the one with the ants just really grosses me out!!!
Ha! I totally forgot about sending that CCC in! The weirdest thing for me is that the grocery store where I found it is no longer in business. It was an Albertson's, which went out of business here in Orlando and the buildings were bought out by Sedano's.
When I worked at a preschool in Boston I used to tell the kids stories about "Mortimor" the ugly-but-friendly troll that lived in the T...
seriously i dont think some of these people have every seen watermelon before!
Watch out: Your vampire emoticon is dangerously close to a Hitler emoticon.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/hitler-emoticons
-Karen
Love the black oil!
Definitely sperm on that first one!
I was going to mention The Silver Chair, from the Narnia series but that Gina beat me to it.So I got the name of the book in!
Because my sister was sort of named after Jill Pole, Gina said what I was thinking. She's also named after Bruce Campbell, but that's another story for another time.
@Amanda--YES! I immediately thought BUNNICULA! on the last one. Now I have to go buy it for my daughter....
I have to send in a 3rd or a 4th "Woot" out for Bunnicula.
Loved the vampire ant emoticon and must say that although I read The Chronicles of Narnia, Ender's Game and the Belgeriad, each with a Pole character, my mind immediately went to the gutter. Go Jen Go!
~A different Jenn in Forest Grove
Many years ago, my friend was in a sailboat contest. He was of Polish descent (had a great name to prove it) and had a beard.
The rules called for not using the whisker pole on the boat during the race.
Someone jokingly called out my friend's team for using a "whiskered Pole".
SueKuKu
who is a Narnian expert and loved the transformation of Jill Pole from "The Silver Chair" to "The Last Battle"
The ICU one looks like a whale with a really bad rash.
I actually went to highschool with someone named "Pole" but it was spelled Pohl.
Okay, the little watermelon with the eyes is just freaking adorable!
(p.s. my captcha word is "bakers"... WIN!)
Little Shop of Horrors 2: Audrey II vs. Mortimer the Vampire Ant!!!
Hey! That last cake is repeat!
Awwww, didn't think that bottom one was so bad..compared to the cupcake thing, it's a work of art!
I don't know about tadpoles on the first one but they definitely look like swimmers.
Actually, if somebody would please call Gallagher, he'd know just what to do with these cakes...
Actually, compared to the others in this post, the first cake with the tadpole/sperm/minnows wasn't too horrible. I thought it at least vaguely resembled a real watermelon.
And much love to the fellow bunnicula fans. That last one definitely looks like something out of "The Celery Stalks at Midnight."