The Trouble With Scribbles
October 19, 2018 Cakes, the final affront here.
These are the continuing ravages of the Bakeshop Wrecksurprise.
Cakeman's Log: The shop is back to normal now, after a mysterious ailment afflicted my crew.
It started when we were accidentally exposed to corigrAtUIAt ions.
;)
Maybe the big sign should have tipped us off.
Anyway, we didn't realize the danger until our handwriting started to devolve.
I mean, what do you call this?!
;)
"It's red, Tim."
"That was a rhetorical question, Leonard."
"Oh. Sorry, boss."
I thought the crew just needed time to warm up, but the more cake I gave them, the more the handwriting problem seemed to multiply.
;)
Spatial skills also began to deteriorate:
;)
Pretty soon, this was the best we could do:
;)
(Tilting your head doesn't help. I tried.)
Suddenly, I remembered the corigrAtUIAt ions!
;)
It. Was right. THERE. In. Front of our. EYES!
I ordered the crew to our decontamination facilities.
;)
The loy quickly neutralized all the corigrAtUIAt - and even better, gave me an excuse to rip off my uniform.
(Hellooooo, ladies!)
The crisis averted, I'm happy to report the crew is back to our normal standards.
;)
"How's this, Boss?"
"Perfect. And I LOVE your new red shirt."
Official commendations to Jill P., Beth F., Carrie B., Break'er Bikes, Carrisa, Shelby P., Laura A., and Alicia S. for doing the yeoman's work of finding these cakes. You made us positively beam by sharing these examples of IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Imperfect Cakes.)
*****
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Reader Comments (26)
A loy is an early Irish spade with a long heavy handle made of ash, a narrow steel plate on the face and a single footrest. The word loy comes from the Irish word láí, which means spade. It was used for manual ploughing prior to and during the Irish Potato Famine.
I think that might hurt.
thanks Wiki
ooh, maybe it's a potato cake: latke with sour cream or apple sauce
"NEW babies make me"?!?!? What does that even mean??
Ah Sharyn you never fail to make me laugh! So funny! And the cakes were hilarious, too!
Bravo, Sharyn! I bet you did this with a Kirky smile the whole time. This Star Trek parody was just Spock on. It was certainly the real McCoy. If doing one of these was on your bucket list, you can Chekov that box now. It was certainly an Enterprising endeavor.
Sharyn, this made me truly laugh out loud!
On a positive note (for the bakers, anyway), I love the idea of using M&Ms for Xmas lights on a cake! Just...not on a BIRTHDAY cake!!
The horror...the unspeakable horror...how do they get people to BUY those things?!?!?!?! How????
I started snickering at the 4th one, giggling at the 5th—what even IS that??—and laughing out loud at Showers of Loy. By the time I got to the last one fellow diners where I was having lunch were trying to avert their eyes, trying to pretend I didn’t exist. A much needed laugh for the day. Genius!
Oh, and the one cake reads “New babies make me melt”. Which is appropriate because the word “melt” seems to have slid onto the side of the cake.
This post raises so, so many questions, but the one that stands out is: Why should Rick “get” Lowel? And on his birthday yet? What did Lowel ever do to him?
@Trista: If you look on the side, there’s a barely legible “melt”. So apparently the entire sentiment is “New babies make me melt”. But I confess, even on Cakewrecks, I’ve never seen someone use the SIDE of the cake as inscription space before.
That "new babies" one threw me off, too, until I realized it also says "melt" way down on the side of the cake. Granted, that didn't make the cake any less of a wreck, but at least I could figure out their thought process a little more.
Great fun, as always! Thanks! @Trista: I think it says, "New babies make me melt." "Melt" is on the front side of the cake. Perhaps it's an ice cream cake?
@ Trista: It's "New babies make me melt." (That final word, melt, is on the side of the cake.)
It means she squeals for joy when she sees a new baby.
"New babies make me
melt"
Obviously written by someone being exposed to a rapid stream of newborns.
New babies make me … melt ?
That took me a while, but it seems appropriate that the letters are sort of melting off the side there ...
TRISTA: Look at the side of the cake --
"New babies make me MELT"
#3 is "New babies make me melt", the famous quote from the Wicked Witch of Wizard of Oz</> (I think?). Since we can't see two sides and the bottom of the cake board, there may be more to the message. Don't you love a mystery?
Trista, there wasn't enough room on top of that cake, so the writing is continued on the side:
New babies make me melt.
Just as icky.
It might be an ice cream cake...
I am so impressed by the creativity it took to put all these cakes into a cohesive, and hilarious, story line.
Brava, Sharyn!
Since some school systems are choosing to not teach cursive writing nowadays, I am afraid that this sort of thing will become more common in the future. (Heavy sigh)
I really hope that one cake said new babies make me melt otherwise I read it that way and will wonder why lol. I am sick so maybe that's why. I will blame the cold meds and the wreckerators will just blame themselves lol.
For all those scratching their heads: it's 'new babies make me melt' with the requisite melting font. It's just that the font seems to be less melting and more avalanche.
As I am reading this, hubby is watching DS9 on Netflix. Maybe we really ARE in an altered universe! Or am I in an episode of Twilight Zone?! I can hear the music.
For a December birthday I can totally see using M&Ms for Xmas lights on a birthday cake.
These are the kind of jobs im ok with giving to robots, smh. The potential for human error is just too great!!
“the final affront here”....ahhh, so brilliant, sharyn. how did i miss that pun possibility for fifty years? bless you...
I must've missed something. Who is this Sharyn of which you speak?
Corrugated alternate ions. The cake got the abbreviated version.
To be honest, if you order a cake and tell the baker to "write something pretty for my wife", but can't be bothered to come up with it yourself, then you deserve everything you get.
Pat gann: if you look at the foot of the post, just below the pictures of other wrecks and just above the invitation to share on Facebook, you will see the name of the person who actually wrote the post: in this case Sharyn, who is a member of the CW team.