On The Plus Side, It's Never Too Soon To Introduce Your Five-Year-Old To Power Point
March 16, 2017 If you've been hanging around this blog for a while, then you probably remember the infamous Flash Drive wreck.
That's the one where someone brought in a photo on a flash drive, but instead of using the photo, the bakery recreated the flash drive itself on the cake. It's one of the most epic Cake Wrecks of all time, and taught us all a valuable lesson about the boundless nature of human derpitude.
I'm guessing Matthew here missed the flash drive post, though, because not only did he bring one in for his daughter's fifth birthday cake, he also had more than one photo on the drive.
In Matthew's defense, there were only two images on the drive to choose from: one, his daughter's favorite cartoon character, and the other, a Power Point flow chart from his company.
I'll give you two guesses which one the bakery used.
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Aw, you guessed it, didn't you? See, I just can't surprise you guys anymore.
Thanks to Matt M. & little Gia for proving a Communication Network Decision Tree can be just as magical as Disney princesses, only the exact opposite of that.
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Reader Comments (33)
Holy moley! I'm always surprised at people's derpitude. It IS boundless. ROTFLMAO. Nice job on the chart tho'.
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MaryO1230
People this dense should not be allowed to walk around freely without help :P
That's hilarious.
I'm guessing there was no way on earth to contact Matthew and the decorator was left with a difficult decision. If he/she had chosen the cartoon character and Gia wanted the flow chart, they may have been accused of treating a brilliant five year old like a mere child. The next time something likes this happens, they should drive to the customers house and ask what they want on the cake. Or perhaps place an ad in the local newspaper requesting clarification.Or make two cakes. Otherwise, there's no way of really knowing.
The baker just wants an office job and figured they'd get a head start on the office birthdays.
No, you didn't surprise me, but you did make me laugh - and out loud, too! :-D
According to Randy Cassingham, over at "This is True", the correct name for this wreckorator is not "derp", but "obliviot".
Aaannnd, we have a winner!
So who is his daughter's favorite cartoon character?
They must have thought that was one smart 5 year old!!
The bakery maybe had an ancient computer that couldn't open the image file? But could open a PPT? Seems unlikely.
Yes, the bakery did a very nice job -- good writing, tidy, precise, and colorful powerpoint. Sure, it's the wrong job, and you need to have the IQ of a wilted radish to have made this mistake, but still, the execution is much superior to most of the scrambled glop jobs we see here.
Wow, a wonderful job done on that flow chart, nice crisp clear lines and carefully done boxes with text in them, no less, a real tour de force! - what a great addition that would be to an office party. But, unfortunately......
Is...uh.... anyone else curious to know what his daughter's favorite cartoon Disney princess character is? I'll bet it whatever it was had to be a bit more "entertaining" than poor Gia's....
On the plus side (Pollyanna, here), the script/piping was nicely done....
That's all...except it made me think of the Karmann Ghia, and how I never got one.
... =^-.-^=
That's good but...what does the flowchart say? Nevermind, it's still funny.
I really hate flow charts. Used to have a boss that wanted a flow chart for everything. If he could have forced us to use one for determining when to go to the bathroom, he would have. Flow charts are so confusing and don't make sense to me. But a flow chart in CAKE? I might have to take a second look at that.
Edible printing used nearly correctly, for once!
Derpitude is my new favorite word!
Would the opposite mistake have been worse?
In the words of Hicup "why would you do that?"
This is just plain stupid
LOOK, at least we have to admit that the did a pretty good job of technical wrecking, there. Stayed true to the genre....proved themselves worthy ....
And, the pink piped script was actually quite above the norm (for many)....
The only qualm I have is that little Gia will be wondering where the playing pieces are.
=^-.-^= ("Toss me the dice; it's MY turn!")
Derpitude... heh heh
Apparently, his daughter's favorite cartoon character is Flowy McFlowchartFace. I never miss that show!
One possibility is that they couldn't print the cartoon due to copyright restrictions, but if they paid that much attention they likely would have realized a flow chart isn't a good fifth birthday image.
I will now make it my mission to incorporate derpitude and obliviot into my regular vocabulary.
This is the hardest I've laughed all week!
To be fair, putting an image of a cartoon character on the cake would've been a violation of copyright law. So maybe it isn't an issue of derpitude so much as smartassiness.
Did you order cake?→NO→Too bad.
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Was it a wreck? →NO→Good for you, too bad for us.
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Did you submit it to Cake Wrecks? →Please do!
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Yay!
To elaborate on @ClassicSteve's post above:
(Scene: 8:30 AM on Thursday morning. Matt's office.)
Ring, ring.."Uh, Matt, could you come to my office? Right now?"
Matt: "You wanted to see me, Bob?"
Bob: "Please take a seat. Matt, I was preparing for this afternoon's presentation to our new account. I started reviewing -- you know -- the communications network design..."
Matt: "Yeah. I've been working on it for the past month. Did you have any questions I could help with?"
Bob: "Uh, yeah...who the heck are Anna and Elsa?"
(Uh, oh...)
One tiny point of order: This is a Visio flowchart. Probably inserted into a PP slide.
Aside from that... BRAVO, WRECKERATOR! WELL-PLAYED!
Oh man well the flow chart looked nice at least lol. I hope the cake was at least edible cause with all that trouble wrecking it I would hope they ate the darn thing lol.
This is truly epic!
HORF
ROFLMBO. I seriously lost it when I read this description. Happy 5th Birthday, here's your Power Point Presentation!
I keep feeling that there's an unwritten joke in the comment about a "Flow Chart to determine when to go to the bathroom." And I keep snickering like a nine-year-old boy.