A Picture is Worth What Now?
November 4, 2011 I know, I know, sometimes you're in a hurry, and you have to grab just any ol' cake off the shelf for your party.
However.
Why this one?
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If you're fishing for a compliment, then that's strike one.
And if you bring this home to celebrate your sixth anniversary?
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Well, let's just say there are other fish in the sea. Who can spell.
Wow, I'm so glad they remembered the glass slipper on Dad's cake!
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The pink purse alone was just a little too cliché, you know?
It's not always a case of last-minute cake decisions, though; sometimes people choose this stuff intentionally.
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And you thought dinosaurs were agnostic.
This cake was part of a Breast Cancer Awareness display:
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Is that Coraline's creepy button-eyed Other Mother?
We can only hope.
Speaking of cakes that will blow your mind, how about a dust mite encouraging you to have healthy digestive regularity?
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And darned if I just don't want to disappoint the little fella, too.
Thanks to Wreckporters Kati, Theresa G., Mark R., Danielle N., Anony M., & Kaitlin.
Reader Comments (75)
Coraline doesnt have a button eyed aunt. Its her Other Mother :) (my daughter is a spooky movie freak and has watched it at least 2.5 billion times)
[Editor's note- Good ketch! I ficksed it. -john]
"Hope" has condoms for eyes. Pretty, blue condom eyes.
I know I'm nuts, but I would really love those plastic goldfish...
Sushi for lunch, anyone?
Was Dad still looking for his runaway Cinderella?
Also, Coraline didn't have a creepy Aunt. That was her Other Mother.
The T-Rex cake is probably for a birthday boy named Epcot.
[Editor's note- You're right. You can tell be the Disney font! -john]
I totally see a t rex riding two crocodiles/alligator. Maybe a croc and an alligator? Either way, its a nice idea. Sad it's just a silhouette. =(
Maybe Dad's a cross-dresser?
I love the Happy Birthday Jesus one. Maybe I'll get a cake just like that for the coffee hour after our church's Christmas pageant this year. Bad, bad, me. (Yes, I am really tempted to do this. It would confuse the heck out of everyone.) Bad me!
Condom-eyed Hope will never know the joy of receiving a "Syphilis Blows" cake.
hahahhaha! I'm loving Dad's cake with the pink purse and glass slipper. All kinds of dads, ya know--here's to diversity! I"ll toast him, if you'll pour me some champagne in the shoe! The Jesus dino birthday cake is excllent! We celbrate CHristmas with dinos at my house, too.
These are the best best best I"ve seen in awhile. Happy dust mite is sweeeeeet. :-)
So is Dad's cake implying that he's Prince Charming? That's the best spin I can put on it, anyway.
As for the dinosaur/Jesus cake, your guess is as good as mine...
Wow, so many cakes, so little time! Not what fish (which appear to be koi) have to do with bowling, but okay, we'll just go with that. The "anivarsy" cake is unforgivably bizarre and not in a cute way. Those "fish" look more like amoebas with tails or....something. For Dad's cake it's pretty clear that WAS a little 4 year old's cake that obviously wasn't selling. Wow way to market that one! I'm hoping that the dinosaur (tar monster?) cake is for a child named Jesus (Hesoos) which wouldn't be so bad. Hope looks less than hopeful and that fluffy dust mite is just so darn cute I want to "GO" just for him!
Wow and I thought all dad's liked purses, the things you learn here ;p
I think on the dinosaur cake the decorator left "Horse" off the end of the cake! Makes much more sense that way! ;)
Something seems awfully fishy 'bout those first two cakes.
Just sayin'.
@algor You beat me to the punch on the Other Mother note, although I am happy for the Coraline shout out.
@Vinie I didn't see that until you said something. Now it's all I see. Thanks for that.
and random side note- with all of the black food coloring utilized on the dust mite cake, "Go! Go! Go!"-ing probably won't be a problem.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a strange inexplicable hankering to listen to Steve Burns.
What I really want to know is - why is the dinosaur wearing blackface? Or is it a dinosaur luchador?
The "Jesus" cake isn't funny - that's the kids name. I suppose...
[Editor's note- Actually, it was a Christmas cake. Seriously. Go figure... -john]
Jesus (pronounced hay-sues) is a very common Latino name. I have several friends, including one close friend named Jesus. I'm guessing the cake was made for a kid named Jesus and is not really a wreck.
In before the "Jesus is a common Hispanic name" party-poopers...oh, darn, they attacked already!! I'll just walk away now.
Why does the HOPE cake look like the face of a blow up doll used for illicit purposes?????
I looked through all the comments and didn't see the most obvious answer to the Dad's glass slipper cake. Has no one see "The Birdcage"? Tommy has two dads, of course.
I do have a friend who would stretch the BOWLing pun to a fish bowl, if given a chance.
Heh. Looks like Gary called it.
All I can think of when I see the Jesus cake is, "First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil...".
"Inconceivable!", "Great Scott!"
I think I see an Epcot!
Recite the above while clicking your heels* together 3 times to be transported to the Epcot shelter.
*glass slippers may be required
Did anyone notice the "&" on the "anivarsy" cookie cake? It looks like the letter "c" with a dot above and a dot below it. I can't say that it's because of bad handwriting because all the other letters on that cake look the way they're supposed to.
I'd swear that last one seems to be some kind of Pokemon.
The Happy Birthday Jesus cake kind of makes me wish that December was my month to supply baking for coffee hour after church... I seriously hope that you do it and then take a picture Elissa! And wouldn't you know there would be an Epcot right after I ate the last of my cookies. Hopefully someone else in the bunker has something good to snack on.
Perhaps Dad is from Boston, where there used to be (maybe still is?) a strip joint named "The Glass Slipper".
UHG-LEEE D:
Perhaps Austin & Kate met at a show during Ani's Little Plastic Castle tour? In any case, it's a very arsy-varsy way of doing things.
"Hope" looks like Polly Prissy Pants from South Park dyed her hair blond and lost her hat.
If only the dinosaur was a raptor, then it would have made sense..heh.
See, they live in a bowl... because they're goldfish... fishbowl... bowl... bowling... I've got nothing.
Isn't the Dad cake a re-run (or perhaps a wreckreation)?
Anyone notice the one-eyed planaria on the second cake? Are Austin and Kate(?) biologists?
What I want to know if Latino Jesus (with the Hispanic pronunciation) was born on/or around Christmas. I bet that would always confuse the bakers.
That last one is adorable. I wouldn't want to disappoint the little fellah, either, so I'm off to "visit my office". I'll see y'all later.
Why can't little Jesus (Hey-sus) have a dino on his birthday cake? The red and green sprinkles are questionable.
@ Gary - Exactly what I thought when I saw the cake, but you said it far funnier than I would have. :D
The dust mite cake (is that cake? just looks like a pile of frosting) is kinda cute. If he had big, googly eyes, I'd want him in plush form!
perhaps more than any other recent post, this one appeals to my general sense of bewilderment at the world. thanks for the 4:30 giggle.
is it just me or is anyone else worried about the fiber content in our dust mite cake... he seems pretty sure we're going to follow his directive to "Go! Go! Go!"
In defense of the T-rex cake, Jesus (prounounced hay-zeus) is a common name among first and second generation Mexican families. We have a few of those in Texas.
Jesus is actually pronounced "Hay zeus," and it actually a very common Spanish given name.
True.
Saw the dino cake -- thought -- why is it a wreck that a kid of Hispanic origin gets a cake?
Then I saw John's note that it's a Christmas cake.
Alrighty then -- it makes PERFECT sense NOW.
I think "Happy Anivarsy" is going right up there with "Falker Satherhood"!
Seeing as Hope is my name, that cake will haunt me forever. Those blue, pupil-less eyes seem to stare straight into the depths of my soul. "I know all your secrets Hope... Be afraid, be very afraid!"
Dad was never quite the same after he got the lead in La Cage Aux Folles.
Alright, alright, 'Hay-sus' is a Latino name! We know already! Don't people *read* before they post? Tchaw...
Incidentally, the T-Rex totally looks like the tar monster covered in blackface riding a couple of crocodiles. Or possibly alligators.
And Coraline has an 'other mother'.
What?
I think the Happy Birthday Jesus was supposed to be him as he "treks across the water" and they got it wrong and put a TRex across the water.
First, I know a dad who would have thought the pink purse and glass slipper for his 40th birthday cake was hilariously appropriate :-)
And second, I may never recover from Happy Birthday Jesus Dinosaur--heck I can barely type it out I'm laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!
And third, happy anniversary 'pppbbbllpppttt!"
Oh Jen, you are priceless.
Anivarsy. It's like we don't even giradugate kindergarten in this country, anymore. SHEESH! :D Thanks for the hilarious lineup!