Friday Favs 7/25/14
July 25, 2014 A few of my favorite submissions this week:
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Yeah! Go SPORTS!
Of course it's easy to focus on the mistakes, so let's take a second to appreciate that somewhere there's a professional baker who actually did this... on purpose.
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("I call it, 'Barbie's Dream Petri Dish.'")
Could be worse, though. This one makes me want to launch a CSI investigation:
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("Looks like Merle... [SUNGLASSES].... got smoked.")
And yes, I do realize "CSI investigation" is redundant.
SPEAKING of which...
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Ow. My brain.
Because nothing delights a girl on her birthday quite like chopping off the head of a terrified Minnie Mouse:
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"Don't worry, Minnie, this'll only hurt for seconds."
Just think: last week two of you loyal wrecky minions spotted this display, took a photo, and sent it in to me:
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I love it when that happens! It's like Missed Connections, Cake Wrecks style!
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So Sara? Brittany? YOUR DESTINY TOGETHER AWAITS.
(Dibs on the wedding cake photos.)
Oh, and I think that bamboo plant is trying to lick us.
A few weeks ago a couple of readers had a discussion on Twitter about Cake Wrecks, and since they kept tagging me in it, I was privy to their thoughts on how our posting misspelled cakes smacks of "intellectual snobbery," and really isn't that funny anyway.
I didn't reply at the time because the two weren't talking TO me, just ABOUT me. However, now, at long last, I believe I have an appropriate response.
Ahem hem hem.
This was supposed to say "Celebrate."
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[drops mic]
[walks off stage]
[trips]
[scrambles up]
[steps on skirt]
[pantses self]
[slinks off, stage left]
YEAH.
Thanks to Mag D., Allison A., Mark F., Laura H., Sara E., Brittany A., & Barb F. for celetraling with us.
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Reader Comments (86)
I think Celetrale is supposed to have an accent over the last E. Celetralé!
Now it's a party.
Mel and Sharyn, you two win the Internet today. :D
Silly me, I just assumed that cake was for a big fan of The Walking Dead. All it needs is a disembodied hand, some weapons and zombie entrails to be a proper tribute to Merle.
Thanks for the Horatio Caine homage - Keep up the great work!
All the talk of intellectual snobbery seems silly in the context of this hilarious website! As one who works as a professional decorator, I've seen misspellings like these usually from people whose first language isn't English. No one is making fun of the decorator directly which would be cruel, but when someone trying to help me produces one of these gems, they don't want to keep doing it. I couldn't get it right in Chinese or Russian, but I'd want someone to tell me gently how to do it right!
Personally, any snobbery I might pick up from these is quickly replaced by humility when the Sunday cakes are posted. This site has made my day when things go all wrong on a simple cake I've saved for last because I thought it would take no time. It doesn't happen often, but you guys have saved my 12 hour Saturday more than once. ")
@mel:
OH! MY! EXCLAMATION POINT!!
THAT was words-cannot-express-sufficiently PRICELESS. Please: take a bow!!! Take TWO!!!
I've had a pretty darn frustrating day, trying to hunt down a replacement part for something I really need, gave up to take a break & come "over here", and there was one of my favorite "shows" on (in melivision, no less)! Now I've laughed, gotten my perspective back, and guess what? Tomorrow is still another day. Thank you, thank you, THANK you!! =^~.~^=
Why is it that every time I read "snobbery" my brain says "shrubbery"? It just works better that way.
This is so full of funny! Never stop being awesome <3
That Merle cake looks really haggard! Well, Mama Tried. (Fans of classic country music will get it.) I also think the "L" on the Merle cake should be a "D"! That was the word that came to my mind first as I was trying to decipher it.
I wonder if those Twitter twits were some of my former students. I used to teach online classes for a large for-profit university (yes, that one). My students certainly lived up to the school's reputation. Anyway, a few times my students accused me of intellectual snobbery. Um, yeah. That's why I went to graduate school and why they pay me that oh-so-lucrative adjunct salary. My job was to challenge their intellectual mediocrity (to put it nicely) and hope they improve their own intellectual standards. I see you as doing the same, Jen! Unfortunately, too many people seem to Celitrale their anti-intellectualism.
FM, I can't wait to read your thesis! I hope you incorporated the influence of cisgender privilege in your meta-analysis.
I read Cake Wrecks every day - funniest site on the internet! Also very clever!
@msyendor: ah…thank you…and, I’ll have what you’re having….
@TLC: is it a good idea to talk about stealing from a police post….? I sense a bit of irony there….but, steal away! :-)
@Tabbymom: those were the days…and giggling is good….
@Stephanie: thanks for the compliment…I like to think we all win when we come here…where else is there such an abundance of humor…a virtual cornucopia of comedy!
@sendingtheclowns: so…I’m guessing you liked it…? You’re too funny, and too kind…but I agree…sometimes a little laugh break does wonders…hope tomorrow’s a better day!
@mel... My husband has come to accept the fact that I have an on-going (although completely one-sided) love affair with your pun-mastery. I sit & giggle & he says redundantly "Cake Wrecks?" & if I continue to laugh until years roll down my cheeks he says, again redundantly, "Mel?". Perhaps I should start the Tinker, Toys, & Tops fan club?
As for this site being intellectual snobbery? Wow! Cool! I feel so much more high-brow in my mom jeans & mini-van!
Maybe that Merle cake was a Walking Dead reference lol. It does look like a zombie died to make that cake. Poor Merle he really wasn't happy with that cake hehe.
I just googled "kagemand" and now I am afraid to go to sleep! There should be a site called "kagermand nightmares" but I fear that would be culturally insensitive because it appears they actually try to make them look like that. On the positive side.... Danish kids probably don't crave sweets like we do here.
Mel, I haven't laughed that hard in weeks. I was in tears! And now I have the strangest urge to watch Dragnet reruns while eating cake...
Oh, and maybe we could start our own "Proud to be an Intellectual Snob!" club and get little pins made to wear when we're sneaking through bakeries looking for wrecks.
I just realized: the twits who called you an intellectual snob don't believe we should hold "inferior people"--like people who work at big box outlets, to have all the educational benefits of real--er--upper class--er--more fortunate people. Because, of course, they're stupid--inferior--er--underprivileged. So what does that make the twitters? Plain old non-intellectual snobs.
Whomever called you an "intellectual snob" has obviously never seen the penis cakes, or the baby shower cakes. More terrifying than snobby :)
@MovieMom: Thank you so much for that nice comment; I’m flattered. I really appreciate that you enjoy the puns – so many people feel that seeing or hearing one is a pun-ishment and roll their eyes while muttering, “Get thee to a punnery....” I think it takes a special type of person to enjoy puns, and once we find one, there is an instant cosmic connection. (No, that doesn’t mean we’re spaced out….) Jen and john(thoJ) are very kind about letting us all participate in the word play here, and I enjoy the freedom to release my inner child. Thank you again.
@Degera: Thank you, and I’m glad you enjoyed the post. I’m happy that it made you laugh – tears are a bonus! My secondary goal was to get people to watch Dragnet reruns while eating cake. Win! :-)
It's sad that correct spelling is considered such a low priority in our culture today (especially within online communities such as Twitter). It's also sad that some people have no clue about basic human decency--if you don't like it, no one is forcing you to go to the website and view the photos!
I was going to post a comment yesterday, but my puter got very sick so I had to have the doc come inside and look at it. All is better now.
Sharyn: I have been singing Kool & the Gang for the majority of the last 24 hours with your lyrics...think they'd do a remix or do we need to get Weird Al? (Word Crimes....hilarious.)
SuBee: I am so very glad your daughter's weeks in the hospital as a child didn't frighten her away from Science and Medicine...then again, was she aware the life threatening illness came from her birthday cake "Barbie" petri dish experiment? Well, she was a child, she probably never put cause and ill effect together you however probably still have nightmares...the cake moving in the middle of the night, taking over your frig-did the frig STAY haunted?
mel: so, do you keep a notebook next to you all day and write these down as you are going about your business or do the puns just start flying at you when you see the cakes? Jack's web...love it. Also, your nod to the first Wreck post that made me hysterical with tears, not breathing, I'm surprised this site hasn't killed me yet! Amber'..."I'm not a bird" baahahahahahaha! Have you ever considered a career as a news anchor...'twould be an interesting career choice...(talking Colin Mochrie style of course) But.....WHO IS JOE???? "I combed my side and got the brush off. Joe canvased his side and each person painted a different picture." Your partner's name was Frank Patooie....hhmmm....??
FM the subject of your thesis sounds fascinating, will you publish soon?
So many funny comments. Jen, you have created a little haven here for grammar nazis who have a sense of humor...of course, a nazi inherently has NO sense of humor, so I suppose you have created an oxymoron to not be understood by morons...Aren't we just so very clever?
Everyone else, enjoy the rest of the weekend and I shall see you on Sunday Sweets! Sayonara.
<I>Let’s cebretale!</I>
La, be erect, Caleb Tree!
Act, be El Re, let care be!
Beetle car race, be let,
Treble ace cereal bet.
Erectable rectal bee,
Lace beret, belt a Cree!
Treacle, be a Celt beer.
Be Electra, cat, be leer!
Elect bare rebel Cate,
Create Bel, celebrate!
@VaBeach alemaP: Actually, both. I carry a pen and notebook that I use to record ideas/unusual puns as they occur to me -- and since I am retired, my brain isn't used for much so there is ample opportunity for my subconscious to run amok. I also have a notepad next to the bed because it seems like a lot of stuff occurs to me late at night -- which is why I posted as The Midnight Writer sometimes. Most of the longer, more involved posts, like Mr. Potato, Head Counsel, and the "lost" Shakespeare scenes seem to germinate late in the day. However, each day when I see the cakes my mind starts looking to see what's pun-able and takes off on its own. I also look to see what the best approach for a comment might be, and it may not be puns. While I enjoy pun immensely, I don’t want to overdo it. I might try a song parody, poem, Dick and Jane review, a new cake-related invention, or some totally off the wall "explanation" of the cakes. Each day brings a new challenge to my Muse. As I have said before, Jen and john(thoJ) have been very gracious about letting me go off into my own little world, and I am very appreciative of that. And, sometimes I make a short comment, and sometimes don’t comment at all – my Muse demands a day off every now and then….
I’m glad you caught the “Jack’s web” reference…I thought I had to get it in there somewhere. As far as Amber’ is concerned, she has been a re-occurring character since the first Amber’ post. Sharyn, I and a few others had fun with her a couple of years back and created a whole backstory for her. Sometimes it’s fun to refer back to old posts, though I know it’s a little esoteric. As for being a news anchor, well, no, I never considered it, but if I did, talking Colin Mochrie-style would be best….
And, who is Joe? As the Wizard of Oz said…”Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” “Joe” is what happens when your Claritin is not helping, your sinuses are draining like a broken dam, the codeine-laced cough syrup has failed to abate your rib-bruising cough and you’re proofreading through sleepy, watery eyes. Yup, you caught an error! My bad. Wait: Joe is the guy they brought in to help canvass the neighborhood – his entrance must have been cut by a commercial break….
Thank for you kind comment and inquiry! And, glad your computer is better.
The Touch down baseball kinda makes sense. Doc Ellis pitched a no hitter one fine day, and yelled Touch down after he got a strike out. Maybe the baker likes LSD?
The misspelling and word screw-up cakes are always some of my favorites!
OMG!!! kagemand pics - I love the cinnemon bun ones - you could RIP the head off! So much more horrifying than merely cutting it off. MUST. VISIT. DENMARK.
Maybe it's the quality of the green and apricot colours in the first picture of the 'bamboo' cake, but I think it's rather lovely. But what's most interesting about the 'Missed Connections' pictures is that you can tell which was taken first, providing a great example of how colour can bleed into the surrounding icing (whipped cream/topping is the worst offender for this, but it happens to buttercream too).
just to say, was reading this post with my 4 year old daughter, and she declared the Barbie amoeba cake to be "SOOO BEAUTIFUL". So, it's a hit with the pre-k crowd...
Mel, you're a genius.
No one has commented so far on the fact that the cake with the 'peaches' on costs $56.99!
Here at CW we are not 'grammar nazis'. A 'grammar nazi' tries to enforce grammatical rules in situations which are none of their business. If you have ordered and paid for a cake with an inscription on it, you have a right to expect the inscription to be correctly spelled. The rest of us are just here for the laughs.
@Morag: that's kind of you to say that...It is fun to play here, and I, also, as you said, come for the laughs....
If you're guilty of intellectual snobbery, so am I! Seriously! The spelling and grammatical errors from people these days, especially those who consider themselves professionals, is just horrifying! The other day I honestly saw someone spell "the" as "tha". They claimed it was "Facebook shorthand". Really?!?! It was easier/shorter to type one wrong letter?!?! How was that easier than typing the correct letter?! And then to see the errors on cakes that someone paid good money for in order to celebrate a special day, that's just insulting!
I thought Merle's cake could have been a demon smoking out.
That last cake! What does it meannnn!!!!???
PS Wish I knew laughing about horrifically misspelled words was intellectual snobbery BEFORE I invested all those years into using education properly. Hoo kearz abowt gud spearling, amirite? Spearling donsent mater! Down with intellectual snobbery!
The misspelled cakes are what I live for ...
Wow. I just realized that the last cake was spelled correctly, they just crossed the B instead of the T at the end. (Which totally messed things up, of course, but it makes so much more sense now!)
I do find some of these amusing and agree that in a professional setting, expecting something to be properly spelled is just a given. It's a matter of spell-checking yourself before you send out your product. It's also sometimes difficult to help being amused at a word which is clearly not what it intended to be.
However, a lot of these comments *are* quite snobby. The thing is, not everybody has the same aptitude for language, not everybody speaks English as a first language, the school system in America has quite a lot of issues in terms of teaching English, and not everybody uses the same dialect. To say that anyone with concerns over intellectual snobbery is just "not smart enough" is, well, a PERFECT example of intellectual snobbery. Your aptitude for a certain language doesn't make you better than anybody else, and the offenders could stand to drop the holier than thou attitude.
Sincerely, a librarian with an English degree who read dictionaries and studied Strunk & White's in her spare time growing up just so she could teach herself what they didn't in school. If *I* can recognize the issues with intellectual snobbery, surely others should be capable.
I'm not sure what is funnier... The cake misspell over and over (admitted grammar nazi. I think it is freaking hilarious ) OR...... the comments you put on there. Good god. It's so funny.