Do You Hear What I Hear?
January 25, 2017 We all mishear things from time to time. Heck, I still think Elton John just wanted a hug from Tony Danza. However, there are certain levels to auditory misunderstanding, which thanks to today's bakers I can now illustrate and then make snarky comments about. WOOHOO!
Level 1: The Simple Mistake
This is the one anyone can make, since at first blush the bungled interpretation almost makes sense:
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Poor Chad. He went from rad to sunburned.
Level Two: The "HUH?"
This is a more convoluted level, and one that requires an explanation to understand. For example, this cake was supposed to read, "Happy 24th Birthday, Ashleigh. YOU ARE OLD!"
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"Yes, I'm afraid you DO need to spell it out for me."
(This reminds me of the time in grade school when I had to interview my grandmother about her travels. She kept referring to Mexico as "Old Mexico" [presumably because she lived in New Mexico], but it sounded like she was saying "Oh Mexico." So that's what I wrote - about a billion times in that report. My family all found it quite funny. I did not.)
Level Three: The One You're Never Going To Believe
This is the level of misunderstanding that takes you so far down the wrong road that there's simply no turning back. So, little Seth, you just enjoy your "blue camo" baby shower cake, mkay?
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"Watch out, they spit!"
Thanks to Lelia R., Joann R., & Yvonne D. for the "just deserts."
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Reader Comments (27)
Are you certain Seth's parents weren't expecting 2 of the 3 wise guys to show up at the party?
Fantastic Jen! I will never learn NOT to sip my coffee at my computer while checking my favorite web site in the morning. Makes for a messy keyboard, but who cares, it's totally worth it. Hug from Tony Danza, I knew immediately what you meant and now have that song in my head, LMAO. I can also tell you from experience that camels do indeed spit, and I could have used a hug from Tony Danza after that one.
I think that first cake is actually saying "Chaa" is red. Still wrong (and funny), though!
Hold me closer Tony Danza
Count the head lice on the highway
Send dear Seth a cake with camels
It's much less tackier that way
Imho, the URO one could just be another example of kids these days and their abbreviations for everything, iykwim. Ijs. Smh...
OMG. The "blue camo" cake with the BLUE CAMELS, wonky palm trees and half-azzed ... I don't know, grape vine decorations...??? .... around the top and bottom.. well, they TAKE the cake AND the prize... I think....
JMHO...and ROTFLMAO...
MaryO12320
I thought that #1 was supposed to have "Chad" in red icing.
Frankly, to me, blue camels make a lot more sense than blue camo. Where would blue camo be useful? Combat situations on an alien planet with blue vegetation?
@Joel: Maybe in water.
The U.S. Army explored the use of camels and the story goes that there are wild camels roaming Texas to this day. So camels in camo kind of makes sense. Maybe. A little?
Nice Aladdin reference =)
Aladdin XD I do wonder about the intelligence level of these bakers.....
Joel, the US Navy does use blue camo, although why you would want sailors to be hard to see if they fall overboard never made sense to me.
The camels are very well done, though.
Third grade spelling test...Miss Peters says: "Pacific. It's not 'PASS-ific.' It's 'PISS-ific.' So, despite having studied for several days, and knowing how to spell "Pacific," eight-year-old me writes "P I S S I F I C." That's my earliest recollection of being gaslighted.
I'm lucky I didn't grow up to become a wreckerator.
Can I just say that those are the most non-wrecky canels I've ever seen? Like we really all need to step back and appreciate that craftsmanship
SuBee, you are the icing on the cake wreck! !
Hey, at least the camels looked like camels, that's a plus.
At least Ashleigh can take comfort in the fact that 24 is *really* not that old!
Also, @SuBee- I don't know which I look forward to the most, Jen's commentary or your comments! Y'all are both hilariously witty! :D
I wrote my grandma a letter once, telling her about the tenna shoes I got for Christmas.
The blue camo is wonderfully funny. I live in South London and the words can be very similar. Luckily Seth got a very presentable cake.
Off-topic(waaay), but think how everything would be a lot easier if all camouflage clothes were made out of invisible material.....
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I thought the first person wanted the name "CHAD" in red.
Meanwhile the employee taking the blue camel order is thinking "Wow, some clients really want weird stuff!!"
Frankly, if you want blue camo decoration on ANYTHING, you better include a photo. Real Tree Camo, no problem. Desert Camo, can do. But probably only Navy Seals know about blue camo.
Oh, there is a cakewreck in the making - navy seals.
"URO" keeps cracking me up... Just think of all the fun things it could stand for:
United Refrigerator Operators
Unusually Random Observations
Unidentified Running Omnivore
Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra (Actually, that one's real!)
Ugly Round Object (like that cake)
On the subject of mishearing things... for years, I thought Bohemian Rhapsody said "Beelzebub has a devil for a son-in-law." It made a warped kind of sense, at least in my head.
Camo... Camel... I'd walk a mile to smoke a blue camo camel.
Guess wreckerators can't be bothered to spell things out on cakes anymore. Heck they may as well just put down text lingo on cakes now lol.
How many people (like me) think Benny And The Jets lyrics go: she's got electric boobs. C'mon, 'fess up y'all!
On the other hand, the camels probably do "fit in" with Baby Seth -- if the shower cake was for Eve's third son. Blue camels though? Not so much.