Friday
Feb242017
Friday Favs 2/24/17
February 24, 2017 Some of my favorite new submissions this week:
I won't tell you how long I thought this was a sideways H:
;)
I also won't tell you how long I stared at this one:
;)
...before John finally pointed to the post-it.
However, I *will* tell you John spent the same amount of time thinking this was a perfectly nice cake, and wondering why Natasha sent it in:
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So clearly we're still meant for each other.
;)
Thanks to Katelyn W., Michelle D., & Natasha P. for seeing how many of us had our coffee this morning. Also, there's no WAY that's an H on #2. NO WAY.
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Reader Comments (70)
In keeping with the theme of marital bliss, my husband had to point out the problem with Chase's choo choo., so I'm going to have to keep him.
The amount of time I spent trying to figure out what was wrong with Chase's cake is disturbing me.
Who names their kid "Choo Choo Chase"?
I'm still not sure what's wrong with the train one...
The only appropriate response for the last one is:
Ooh, SO close!
And...I just got it (the train). Wow, I feel dumb!
And what is the decoration on No. 2 in pink, fairy poop? Or pieces of intestine?
Haha! The train one is awesome. It took me a second. Well, maybe it took me a minute. But still. That was fab. And it's not even a wreck, either! hehehehehehe. It's just a... wreck.
Nic: pink fairy poop has sparkles so it must be intestine on the cake
Ok, please someone explain this to me...I understand somebody asked for a cake for their 2-year old named Chase decorated with a "choo-choo", and they wrote "Choo Choo Chase" on it? Is that it?
At first I was wondering what was wrong with the last cake, then I read that the person was supposed to be 2 not 4. At least the cake looks good.
For Nic: The pink stuff on that cake is the pink slime McDonald's used to use in their burgers. There needed to be a new market for it after McD's stopped using it.
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/mcdonalds-finally-tells-truth-pink-slime-harmful-ingredients-food/
You should have given a little hint... I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure it out four myself. :-)
Anyone else care to ask why they wanted "UGH" on a cake? Somebody's unfortunate initials, or a meta-wreck?
Last one feels like one of those tests where you have to say the color of the word and not the color word (any psych students?)....
If it's any consolation, I was trying to figure out what kind of name or thing moure was (love yo moure???) and why the cake was the shape it was until I reread the sideways H bit a second time. Took longer than it should have to realize it was "you more" and not "yo moure".
@MrsLittle: if Chase is 2, why is the cake shaped like a 4? (Don't worry, it took me a disturbingly long time of squinting at every detail of the cake before I got it, too.)
Ok I don't get the train one, can something tell me?? It's driving me crazy!
Sad part is I also had to take a moment to see what was wrong. O_o
The last (4) one: freeze it (for an existential number of years), or leave it, ala Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (she would've fit right in, here), or. ....cut it in half and let the kid experience the concept of math, as in division.....I give up. Thomas never would've been able to make that curve, anyway. Can't win 'em all!
=^-.-^=
4 is virtually 2. Or, as my favorite 12 year old would say, "whatever."
What's wrong with the train?
I have to say I got the train cake instantly, but I'll admit I stared at #2 for longer than I'd like to say until I read the comments and noticed the post it note, lol.
I'm pleased that it only took me under a minute to figure out the Choo Choo Chase one! For ONCE in my life I'm ahead of the game!
Choo choo ckje is two two close!
One or more of these things are not quite right.......
It only took me a few seconds to realize the problem with #3: Chase is 2, yet the train track and cake is the shape of a number 4... I think it is impossible for that train to actually follow those tracks, too.
That UGH cake, though... What. Were. They. Thinking?!?! That is a wreck on so many levels!
But the cakes shaped like a #2 are choo choo booooooooring.
Help---someone tell me what is wrong with the train one.
Number one has some serious typeface/kerning issues.
CRIPES!! Never mind...my dull brain finally figured it out.
Ok, I need someone to tell me the problem with the Choo Choo cake. Is it that the has '4' and the kid is 2?
My computer froze and I couldn't scroll past "Choo Choo Chase", so I stared at that cake a long time, unable to find the flaw. Then when my computer finally responded, it zipped right past the cake to the "meant for each other" comment, which did not provide a helpful clue. I gave up and restarted the computer, doomed to slowly succumb to madness.
My computer automatically opened up on cakewrecks, and I was finally able to see the missing section of the photo. Ah, sweet relief.
#2 and #3 I got right away. In still trying to figure out #1! "I love y's more?" What makes Y such a special letter above the rest? Plus it's a CCC - caphooey!
OK, which *is* it, I wonder!
2 seconds on the last one. Just 2.
Why 4 two? toot toot
Number 3 is doubly delicious.
about .2 seconds. sorry John
It took me about 5 seconds to figure out the train. I feel like this is a "two types of people" situation.
Well, I figured out what was wrong with Chase's (or is his name Choo Choo?) cake pretty quickly, but I STILL can't read what's written on that pink thing. Somebody give me a hint.
Maybe Chase is 42 and just never lost his innocent love of children's programming.
Well of course it wasn't an H on number 2. They used the H on number one!
So, is Chase two, or four? :/ I will not rest until I know.
So.....I want to make everyone feel less....smart. Chase is 2. The train cake is 4. No? Still at a loss, darn.
Ok, what am I missing? Is it just that the writing is on the bottom of the box rather than on the cake? Or something else?
Wow, is the letter 'H' so hard to write now? And yeah, it me a minute to figure out Chase's cake mistake.
I got #3 cake in about 10 seconds. If it wasn't for the post-it I would never have figured out that other one though.
"Choo choo Chase is 2.
But in 2 more he will be 4"
don't you remember that old nursery rhyme?
It took me longer to figure out the sideways H was actually an I than it did to work out the problem with Choo Choo Chases' 4 shaped cake when he was only turnng 2.
I like the idea of freeezing it until his 4th birthday. After all, a 2 year old does not have high expectations of a birthday cake so will be happy with anything, preferably brightly coloured and squishy ;-)
Ok, boys and girls, today we're going to learn about the number "2"...er, the number "4"... um...
So, how about those naked mohawk baby carrot jockeys? Eh?