Wednesday
May252011
Happy Towel Day!
May 25, 2011 Hey, hoopy froods, it's Towel Day! This is the day when we celebrate hitchhiking the galaxy, Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters, and, of course, potted petunias.
I wonder if they'll be friends with me?So, grab your towel...
My, mister teapot, what an unfortunately colored spout you have.
Hey, here's a tip:
Hey, even the terrible ones have fringe benefits.
...and sit back and relax while I serve up something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a teapot.
DON'T PANIC.
He may also be a teapot:
DON'T PANIC. This hypnotized bunny rabbit is mostly harmless.
He may also be a teapot:
But that's pretty improbable.
Besides, it could always be worse.
Like so:
My, mister teapot, what an unfortunately colored spout you have.Hey, here's a tip:
So, in conclusion:
42.
Oh, and:
"Want to see my spaceship?"
Thanks to Cassandra, Tracy B., Amanda Q., Leigh J., Kendra H., and Margaret C., my plastic pals who're fun to be with!
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Reader Comments (141)
Zaphod for President! I need a pangalactic gargle blaster after those cakes. I think they were made using the Infinate Improbability drive.
"Hello, I'm the main dish of the day. Would you be interested in parts of my body?"
(something like that) Hitchiker's Guide references= WIN
There is an art or, rather, a knack to cake wreckerating.
The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the instructions and miss.
Pick a nice day, and try it.
The first part is easy.
All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself into the project with all your might, and the willingness not to mind that you're going to screw it up. That is, you're going to screw it up if you fail to follow the directions. If you are really trying properly, the likelihood is that you will fail to follow the directions fairly hilariously.
One problem is that you have to screw up accidentally. It's no good deliberately intending to be disasteriously funny because you won't be. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you're halfway done decorating, so that you are no longer thinking about the spelling, or the suggestive shape of brown logs, or about how much it's going to embarrass you when it's posted on this blog.
It is notoriously difficult to prise your attention away from these three things during the hours you have at your disposal. Hence most people's successful cakes, and their eventual disillusionment with this exhilarating and spectacular sport of wreckerating.
LOL!
OK, so when my husband was a boy his family used the euphemism "spout" for , well... you know. So when he learned that song in school it seemed strange to him! I'm sure it was mostly harmless.
ps is it really towel day? I had no idea!
I needed a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster today. Thanks!!!
MOSTLY harmless teapots. And how did I miss that Zaphod had breast implants?
w/v unspott- maybe my next cat will be named unspott
Oh, no, not again.
You think you've got problems? What're you supposed to do if you ARE a manically depressed robot?
You are one hoopy frood! Thanks for celebrating Towel Day! I was honestly a little disappointed to see no Towel Day doodle on Google, but this makes up for that entirely! <3
I had a baaaad feeling when I saw the first "teapot", like I could see where this was going...and then to see that there wasn't just one, or two, but THREE phallic-spouted teapots, I couldn't help but let out a "NOOOOOOOOOO!" inside my noggin.
Erin B., thanks for remembering the Glorious 25th of May! :)
Oh my gosh! What is the deal with the stinking ugly teapots? Those are kinda scary...
I never considered having a pink penis on my teapot, but apparently it's pretty standard.
I did not see a hypnotized bunny in that one cake, but those teapots did indeed look happy to see everyone. Especially that last one. Do these bakers not stop to admire their finished cakes? I suppose it would be worse if they do and either don't see the problem, or they're quite pleased with it.
That last teapot cake looks- well, like an innuendo. And that towel looks like it needs to throw in the rag; no wonder it's terrible!
Ava
Erin, thanks for reminding me about the 25th of May!
Altogether now:
"All the little angels".......
Stephanie...I think they admire their work!
I would think that, with all the messed-up cakes out there, one might slightly resemble Agrajag, all deformed and ticked off. I'm very tempted to make an Agrajag cake now... should be easy since I have no cake decorating talent whatsoever :)
I'm shocked that, what with all the completely hideous cakes out there, one did not resemble Agrajag. I'm very tempted to make an Agrajag cake now - should be easy, given that I have NO cake decorating talent whatsoever
Is it possible for me to be BOTH an HHGG fan and ALSO a Pittsburgh Steelers fan? I hope nothing implodes today. I have my Terrible Towel right here! (And yes, it looks nothing like the one in the picture - it actually looks like a towel....)
TracyO
WV: stabe - I hope that teapot "spout" doesn't stabe me... :)
Sorry, who is Agrajag?
It's a pity you can only get this lovely cakes at the Bakery at the End of the Universe.
but where are all the fjords?! i love all the little fiddly bits...
wv the world would be very bleake without the hitchhiker's guide
Jenn, you are amazing. I think we might be twins, separated at birth! I am slightly disappointed there was no Vogon poetry!
Ok, teapot maker needs to get some and stop making penis lookin' spouts :D They are pretty darn funny though "here's a tip" hahhahahahahahaha :D
Time is an illusion. Caketime doubly so. :)
I didn't think I could love you any more....then today happened. I was so busy reading the HH references, I forgot to actually look at the cakes until I got to Zaphod. Thank you, you totally made my day!
Loving all the references to Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy!!!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I LOVE YOU. Just when I think Cake Wrecks can't get any better or funnier... you top yourselves again and again. ~happy sigh~
I have NEVER posted a response before.... but the Hitchhiker's Guide will get me every time! Especially when you paraphrase my FAVORITE line ever.... "A substance almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"
Where's the small piece of fairy cake? How am I suppose to extrapolate reality without a small piece of fairy cake?
There should have been three arms on the Zaphod cake.
So who has a teapot with a different color spout in the first place? Make the white, and they wouldn't look phallic at all.
Also, how on earth do you pick a favorite HGG quote? You could just type in nearly any line. How about:
"Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
Oh mah gawd that teapot! XD
I have my towel right here! I'm a hoopy frood!
Do you think the wreckerators engaged the Infinite Improbability drive?
BTW You should listen to the BBC radio broadcasts!
Happy Towel Day!
Favorite H2G2 line:
"We've met, haven't we, Zaphod? Or should I say PHIL?"
Wonder what kind of cake decoration an infinite number of monkeys would come up with.
boo pittsburg and their terrible towels, really what kind of support is that showing? GO BROWNS! :)
no towel with me, but i have a fish in my ear. does that count?
I'm thinking that blogger needs to add a like button for each comment.
Favorite Adams quote? -
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
If I ever meet myself, I'm going to punch myself so hard in the face I won't know what hit me!
wv: gummaken- what some of these wreckorators should do instead of cake making.
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed after seeing those - ahem- "teapots."
Thanks for all the Hitchhiker's references. You definitely made my day!
There are currently 40 comments. I wonder if I can time this right, and be 42. :)
Those teapots... my my, warn a girl will ya'? I think I'll be sticking with coffee today.
Oh dear for a minute I was completely dumbfounded by the teapot-I couldn't guite figure out why they would have....oh it's a spout...oh for a teapot. Oh, that is so much better then my little gutter mind was thinking at first.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fact that the terrible towel started as an homage to the Slovak ladies who were Pittsburgh sports fans. In the 30s, 40s and 50s, the Slovak ladies would go the Pittsburgh Pirates games, and would use their babushkas to wave and cheer on their boys. This was later translated to dish towels they brought with them, and then to the official "Terrible Towel" for the Pittsburgh sports teams.
oh, hurrah for today's H2G2arama...
I am inspired to reread my Douglas Adams collection over half term
the cakes ming mind - really very bad! The wreckorators prove that Wonko the Sane had it right
vw: 'oblye me, these cakes are Terrible! I wish I knew where my towels was so I could hide my eyes!'
Anon #1, wiki "towel day" because I too, did not get it. Now I dooooo!
OH! Lilac Day! How could I have forgotten. Gotta to make a soft-boiled egg then.
Vogon Poetry
easy, just string those WV things together. What? You didn't know Vogons were in charge of WV sourcing?
wv: scursess : Scursess, we have been found out
Yikes....Looks like another long night of eye bleaching again... that's just disturbing... blinded by the (b)light... thanks Jen - anything I bake HAS to be better than that. It gives me hope! lol. Lori
I hate it when I don't get it either!
Just because i think its tragic no one knows this, today is "Nerd Pride Day". Now, there has to be at least 1 guy living in his basement who was aware of this, but thats just sad, so HAPPY NERD PRIDE DAY!!!!!