Friday Favs 8/15/14
August 15, 2014 Some of my favorite new submissions this week:
The End Is Nigh! Quick, grab the essentials!
;)
(That's peanut butter cake, right?)
(EXCELLENT.)
Misspelled?
Check.
Sperm balloons?
Checkity check.
Unintentionally suggestive inscription?
;)
CHECK, PLEASE.
They tell me this is supposed to be a unicorn:
;)
Yeeeeeeah.
Ever have something that's meant to be sweet & solemn strike you as funny?
If not, then prepare to judge me.
;)
IN YOUR FACE.
I love it when things get so weird that even the baker doesn't know what's going on:
;)
There's a metaphor for life in here somewhere.
And now...
the greatest baby butt shower cake...
OF ALL TIME.
;)
(Photo removed at the baker's request. Please enjoy this lovely picture of Epcot.)
(Aw, Pooh.)
"Uh-oh, the legs have gone all stiff & creepy!
Quick, STICK A BOW ON IT."
Thanks to Jenn A., Michelle V., Cassandra F., Christina T., Dulcie H., & Anony M. for proving that's still less creepy than the human version.
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Reader Comments (72)
I'm trying to picture myself ordering a cake like the one above for my very own Chloe (she of the very petite face) and just can't do it. Just...why? As a former English teacher, it reminds me of all the horrid rhymes some of my students tried to pass off as poetry. Our Teacher Commenter in Residence, Haiku Joy, must relate as well.
Man, it happened again--I have a lot of deadlines and miss the comments for a day or two and all, er, heckfire breaks lose. If one troll can be called "all heckfire" (don't want to give the troll more credit than s/he's worth).
Leading me to say:
1. I have to stop missing the comments even on crazy busy days. I almost missed the sublime version of Julius Caesar (thanks Mel). That would have been a REAL tragedy.
2. I love you guys and reading the CW comments is a joy--haiku joy and all.
3. Some people are just grumps. Or, to use my GRE words, irascible, fractious curmudgeons. (Gotta use my intellectual snob skills.)
Carry on.
Carol, I actually have aMAZing news related to that observation. This summer, Mr. Haiku and I both got new jobs and moved to a city where we fit in much better. I'm now teaching more interesting classes for an university with much higher expectations of their students.
It's too much to hope these kinds of errors are entirely in my teaching past:
http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2014/2/4/face-meet-palm.html#comment20759222
but here's hoping they will be less an "every hour" and more "every two weeks." I'm not sure I hope for them to go away altogether. They make for very funny stories.
For this group of intellectuals, snobbish or not, I'm surprised that no one has connected that last cake as a veiled allusion to Shakespeare's Richard III's brother the Duke of Clarence and the famed vat of malmsey. But I'm sure you all thought it and didn't want to appear snobbish.
@FM: you're welcome! I hate to miss a day, too. When that happens, I go back to what I've missed as soon as I can. This blog is just too good to miss -- ever! And, better late than never....
@Haiku Joy: Congratulations to you and Mr. Haiku Joy! I hope your new university realizes what a treasure they have in you, both for your dedication to excellence in teaching and your compassion (not to mention your clever verbal skills -- which, of course, I just mentioned....).
@drgns4vr: intellectual snobbery be damned -- go for it!
@Cat - love it! Cue 2 garbage collectors going about their business on a regular street in the Hundred Acre Wood, picking up empty hunny cans while discussing something utterly unrelated to the horror upon which they are about to stumble ...
(Is that Eeyore's tail bow on Pooh's back?)
@mel - you are a legend (for the love of Pete)
@john[THoJ] - you are the best Dad in the whole world!
@sendingtheclowns - somewheres thats sposed to freeze over or sumpin Bwahhahaha!!!
@mel: I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. I gotta pee, can we stop, <five miles later> I'm thirsty, I want a soda...<20 miles later> I gotta pee...and so it goes. Aaah, the road trip vacation in the back seat of the wagon with my sister...she hit me, nuh uh, yaah huh-did so!!!
@sendingtheclowns: OH MY GOSH!!! The letter from camp, that was awesome. "you can't play with sumthin dead. much" BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Love the spelling and grammar, wast the bestest evre. <snork>
@SuBee: if we are your imaginary friends, how come I feel real?
Oh yeah, I just realized my earlier post makes me look...well, like a counter culture insurgent...just to clarify - I have NEVER gone to Burning Man and done psychedelics while dancing naked in the desert- But it's sure fun living 70 miles south of the event right before and after it happens. You get the partridge family and VW bus types all the way to the Silicon Valley BMW owner and rented a swanky motor home for the occasion types too. It is HILARIOUS, I was just saying that by the end of the summer, everyone is a bit crabby due to the heat, but blowing off steam in whatever way possible-especially if it's creative and fun and OUT THERE- is quite helpful with the snippy heat summer crabby-ness. So, no, I am not a counter culture insurgent...well not MUCH of one anyway.
Sorry Dad. We'll be good... (gotta behave when Dad moonlights as a Death Eater!)
Virtual hugs to Jodee & TLC.
Also, if the baker of the Pooh butt cake had done just a bit more shaping/posing of the legs so they weren't so stiff, it might have been...well, still a butt cake (and presumably what the customer asked for), but at least not a rigor mortis butt cake, and not nearly as wreck-worthy. Kudos to J&J for their ongoing policy of taking down cake pics at the baker's request: I just have to remember to check the site early in the day!
I am slightly disturbed by how much the first cake reminds me of a friend of mine. Are the little rifles chocolate or plastic?
Cake number two is actually Pac-Man's sperm in extreme close-up.
I'm glad the third cake is clearly marked because I would have never guessed 'unicorn'. Why is the mane growing up the horn? Why is it's face pointed like Phineas Flynn? Has the creator of this 'pullapart cake' ever seen an image of a unircorn?
I thought that was a colon next to the word 'God', I had to read it a few times before I realised it was meant to be an apostrophe and an 's'.
Those cupcakes remind me of a metraoidvania game.
Epcot sort of looks like a giant handball. Huh.
Those are supposed to be G's on Chloe's cake!?
Wow! I leave for a week and come back to John (thoj) giving a Dad talk to the Wreckies?! What have you silly "kids" been up to now? Ha ha! Sorry I missed the fun but it's good to be back. Guess it's time for me to go back and read up on what I missed.
The comments are one of my favorite parts of CW. It just wouldn't be the same without Sharyn's song parodies, the Joy of haiku, and mel. mel, mel, mel what would we ever do without you? You all bring a smile to my face every day. If laughter is the best medicine then CW should be prescribed. I know I always need my daily dose!
@john[THoJ] - Bravo, sir, bravo! I love everyone here & all our awesome regulars, but thanks for pointing out that bullying can go both ways. Although I'm sure in our nutty little geeky hearts we were all only defending our beloved CW, enough is enough. Myself, I prefer to just invision JD as a sort of curmudgeonly character a lá Jeff Dunham's Walter. ;). And those sorts of weary souls need Cake Wrecks maybe even more than the rest of us.
So thanks, Dad, for keeping us in line & keeping CW the wonderfully friendly, kind-hearted place we all know & love. To quote a great mentor who was also a kind of foster father, "There are all kinds of courage...It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." Ten points to J&J!
Boo on bakers that don't have a sense of humor about their work. I'm glad I saw the Pooh cake before it was removed.
But now we have a lovely picture of Epcot to enjoy!
That unicorn looks fine... Oh, it's NOT from the "The Simpsons"? Well, uh this is embarrassing. ~ahem~ Moving on...
Grace, huh? So that's what God calls it. I call it ~censored~.
I would have seriously side-eyed that cake, though. Then struggled NOT to ask Chloe about how you go about cleaning 'God's grace' off your face.
So much to laugh at today... The randomness of guns and cupcakes, grammar goofs and yellow swimmers, a unicorn-Fraggle gone horribly wrong, and the complete what-the-frosting confusion of the question mark cake...Could that one have something to do with an eclipse? It looks like the brown one has taken a small bite out of the white sun-thing.
I missed the Pooh cake, alas, so I will just have to content myself with enjoying Epcot and building a mental image based on the comments.
@Rosie...so, like you mean I'm really old and totally made up....you, you got it...thanks!
@VaBeach alemaP: one old car, three younger sisters...yeah, it was like that. Nice thing was, though, this was before seatbelts, so we just played all over the back seat, the floor, and that shelf between the top of the back seat and the window...living' dangerously....
@Sandy: hahaha...I'm sure many would like to try a mel-free diet...but thanks for the kind comment. You are right -- this is the best placed to come for laughter, starting with the no-holds-barred, mad-cap writing of Jen and john(thoJ) and the CW Team! I just love this site!
I hate it when the baker asks for their picture to be removed. That just means they know they suck.
Crazy or not....I want to know where the decorator(?)got the candy mold for the rifles. My hubby is a Marine. Your website brings much joy to this decorator. I'm laid up in bed from a car accident where my lower half was pretty much crushed and I had a head injury. Even with my new found (but temporary) fuzzy memory I know right from wrong with the cakes you find. Kinda makes me feel good....thank you for my joy.
geez, it's always the butt cakes that get epcotted, ain't it.
So, I definately thought for a half a moment that you were showing us an amazing epcot cake before I got done reading the words around it. Sad...
@Blair
I thought it looked more like Phineas in a Judge's wig with sprinkles, but Candace seems pretty close too!