A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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September 27, 2010 After more than thirty years of service, professionalism, and good old-fashioned kindness, everyone at the company was sure going to miss ol' what's-his-name.
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Reader Comments (38)
SO close.
The flotsam is NOT helping this thing.
The question mark may be in regards to the retirement rather than the name.
Like, "Please tell us the rumors of your retirent are true. You ARE leaving us, right? We don't have to put up with you here anymore, right?"
Maybe they thought they'd make one of those cute curly exclamation points?
why are there jelly beans and cashews in the gravel pit?
Yak now, up until the beach fell on the road and the huge tractor in front landed there, that cake wasn't looking too awful.
WV - handig
Retiring from driving the front loader meant Mike would have to handig that errant oasis off the road. Is he sure he really wants to retire just now?
~Becky
Too bad, because it was a nearly cute cake otherwise. (The mystery patch with the smarties was a bit odd).
Um ... that thing in the middle. Does it look eerily like maggots in a piece of hardtack, or is it just me?
I am horrible with names but I think I would of found a better way than that... sure is a LOT going on on that cake...
Perhaps Mike will enjoy his retirement playing with all the toys on top of the cake. He does get to keep those. Right?
Is the second table there to have a place to put all the flotsam so they can actually eat the cake? Perhaps putting them on a larger cake board AROUND the cake would have been a better idea.
Why does it look like there are body parts (particularly a severed head) in that excavated area??
Awww, that's cute. But they might have expressed disbelief at his retirement with that "?" Either way, it's inadvertently funny.
Best part of the whole cake is the STOP sign. If only the wreckerator had heeded the warning and learned to self edit before plopping two thirds of those items on the cake, or writing the inscription before calling the client and resolving the question mark issue.
I think STOP would be a great theme for a cakewrecks post. Thoughts?
~~Swan
Guess they were afraid he'd pull a Brett Favre.
Those pesky pterosaur nests, always popping up in the middle of desert road construction! Besides that and an extra tractor or two, it's a pretty cute cake. I hope Mike? liked it!
Don't be too hard on them... clearly the cake is under construction.
I have no ruddy idea what's going on in that scene, but I hope Mike? or whatever his name is has a happy retirement.
Jeff gets my vote for best comment of the thread. Ha!
The lettering on the cake is actually pretty nice, but the rest of the decorations are just too much. At least they mostly go together, although I'm not sure what a dinosaur nest has to do with road construction.
I know some guys who'd love this.. and since there's a "?" after Mike... they could ALL have it!!
Seriously, though, what's with the candies in the dirt pit? Couldn't figure out how to make rocks? *snort*
Maybe I'm getting too used to Wrecks, as this doesn't seem to qualify other than for the ambiguous punctuation!
'Pull a Favre'...'clearly under construction'... *massive giggles*
~~Di
wv - uperatic -- a most uperatic scenario -- we only need to add the fat lady, or does the grade-all sing?
and, apparently, when "mike"? retires he's going to...do some heavy construction in florida?
So many things to figure out...
What are cashews doing on a cake, and what are they supposed to represent?
What is the 'oasis' made of (please tell me it's not real dirt) and how the wreck did the crew manage to pave -- and stripe -- *under* it? Speaking of pavement, please tell me that is also flotsam -- it looks a tad too real to be safely edible.
What does the flag represent? It's not white, so it's probably not surrender. It has some kind of symbol on it and text underneath, but zooming to the resolution limit offers no clues.
Why wasn't anyone sure who retired or if they retired? Shouldn't that be the first issue resolved when ordering a retirement cake?
Nice attempt at perspective with the different-size construction vehicles, though. At least different-scale flotsam pieces aren't randomly grouped, as they have been on other wrecks.
Mike Matt Mark! :D SO FUNNY! ;)
This was very funny?
What I wonder is, does Melani's last name really start with an X, or is that there as a substitute?
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This is the first 'construction' cake I've seen on this site that actually looks all right. If the little traffic cones and such are edible, then even more points.
But I do wonder...is Mike a workaholic and they're just not sure he's going to retire...or has he been in the basement so long that they're not sure of his name anymore a la 'Red Stapler' guy from Office Space?
Confusion with a side of cake. It could be worse, I suppose.
No retirement home is complete without paved roads, front-loaders, and bulldozers for entertainment around the watering hole.
Either they're asking how his retirement's going so far, or they're implying that he needs to show up to work more often.
What the hell did Mike? dig up for a living? Dinosaur eggs? Arms and legs? Giant cashews?
Makes me think of my uncle Carmon's retirement - he was County Road Supervisor (actually, the whole dept., all by himself) for something like 50 years, and all the equipment migrated to his farm/barn, because it was easier. At his retirement party, the bosses asked, "Ummm, you ARE returning all the equipment to the county garage, right?" He replied they were welcome to send guys to get the gear, but he wasn't going to hand-deliver it for 'em, 'cause the walk back would be too tiring at his age (about 72, I think). Eventually, they did collect the grader, the dozer, the trucks, the plows, the schoolbus, and the rest - took weeks!
WV: acinsh - this cake would've been ascinsh to please Uncle Carmon!
Merry at Annie's Book Stop
Is that a giant octopus rising from the pit?
Maybe the question mark isn't so much "Will Mike retire?" as it is "Will we all be devoured by the ancient evil we accidentally unearthed?"
that was AWESOME! My brothers are named Matt and Mike, and my dad's name is Mark, so we mess up their names all the time! Haven't messed it up on a birthday cake though... :)
I had a good long laugh at this... because my mother (long-suffering matriarch of seven children) used to utter those very words: "Matt-Mark-Mike-oh whatever your name... clean up this mess!"
The fact they added a question mark to the end makes me wonder what indeed happened to this person?
Mike's the guy who stands on the road with his stop/go sign for the traffic...no-one's sure if he's even employed there, one day he just stopped showing up.....
Maybe Scott is right, and the interrogatory refers to the retirement rather than the name. Mike may have done several Brett-Favre-esque retirement fake-outs.
Maybe he's TRYING to retire and he's finally going to? There are a lot of 'retired' guys where I work. They are retired, but they get called back in because the good engineers are all busy and the incompetent engineers are useless, so they bring in the retired folks to get the job done right. One guy is on his 4th 'retirement' I think.... Good luck to Mike!