Thursday
Sep102009
Sweet, Sweet Irony
September 10, 2009 Sure, simple cake goofs and misspellings are fairly common. Sometimes they just result in more hilarity than usual.
And by "you can do it," we mean we can't.
Well, somebody's record of "excellance" just got set back to zero.What's more ironic than misspelling a boast of excellence?
How about misspelling your correction of a misspelling?
Ouch. Nothin' like messing up a good rant over the fact that someone else messed up, is there? (And yes, I *do* know that from personal experience. Heh.) 
Taking team unity to a whooole new level.
Thanks to Wreckporters Christine A., Lindsay W., Monique R., & Jaclyn S.!
- Related Wreckage: Maximum Irony Has Now Been Achieved
Reader Comments (65)
Wow . . . I mean, . . . wow. Did someone REALLY think that a breast cancer ribbon on a team cake was appropriate? I couldn't even READ the team name! Words fail me . . . wow.
ExcellAnce? I am so not surprised by this one. Pretty writing, though!
Hopefully, L-i-z-z-i-e was well amused by the explanation provided on top of her cake!
Spelling word of the day: c-h-e-c-k as in always check your work before the customer sees the end product!
OK, the whole time I am trying to decipher the name of the team in the first cake. What do all those circles and lines say?
Yet, my 2 favorites are cake #2, which is "xcellantly" made. When you say it out loud it has a french sound to it! Magnifique! And I love cake #4! I don't know what's better, the omission of the plural s or the capitalization of the P in the middle, and hence, the resultant "Pion" ! It's a toss-up! :-)
Well at least L-I-Z-Z-I-E got her sprinkles!
The breast cancer ribbon on the team cake would be appropriate if team Unwhatever had won some sort of fund-raising contest.
Maybe if we were able to read the rest of the cake, we'd know.
As always, hilarious... but even funnier because Queen's 'We are the champions' was on the radio as I was reading it... hahahahahaha!
The last one looks like a cat unraveled several balls of yarn on it.
It's a measure of how long I've been looking at CakeWrecks that it took me a while to find the problem with the first cake. No scary clowns, no pregnant bellies, not even any odd, poo-colored mounds - the total lack of spacing barely registers with me anymore.
Vickie - I wonder if the team was fundraising for breast cancer research? That would explain the ribbon.
"We Are the Champion"
We are Borg. Resistance is futile.
That last one is just so incredibly half assed (quarter assed?) it makes me weep sugary tears.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
@Martin - Yeah I know what you mean. No poo. No balloons that look like sperm. No plastic men on questionable bear skin rugs. And no naked mohawk baby carrot jockeys.
I think we've been desensitized to wreckiness unless it's really spectacularly wrecky.
They so ARE the Champion!
We are Legion.
yes, the letter spacing is fugged up (obvious lack of planning), but that breast cancer ribbon is wonky too.
however, as a breast cancer survivor, i will assume their hearts are in the right place.
GO team whatever!
misspellings? no excuse. zero tolerence. i mean, tolerance. haha
terry lee
It took me a minute to come with "you can do it" I thought it said,
"You can die" which brought a whole other level of wreckiness to the cake.
WV: Flock - wow another real word. That's twice in one week!
#1 "Okay, must spell 'congratulations' correctly, or this thing will end up on that damn wrecks website. C-o-n-g-r-a-t-u, so far, so good, l-a-t-i, AAAAAHHHHHHH" *falling off edge of cliff*
#2 "Okay, must spell 'congratulations' correctly, or this thing will end up on that damn wrecks website. C-o-n-g-r-a-t-u-l-a-t-i-o-n-s. Hey, that wasn't so bad. Now, e-x-s-e-l -- no, wait a minute. E-x-s-c-e -- crap. E-x-c-e-l-a -- no -- e-x-c-e-l-l-a-n-s - damn. E-x-c-e-l-l-a-n-c-e. There, got it! Ha! They won't get MY cake this time!"
If you click cake one, you get a MUCH bigger version, and after staring at that one and doing a wreck-writing analysis it looks like the team name is written "Unravelet."
This makes the cake even more wrecky, as google reveals there IS a "Team Unraveled" group that participated in a 3-day, 60-mile walk for breast cancer research funding event.
I had assumed that the breast-cancer-ribbon cake was to celebrate a team who had done one of the breast-cancer walks. I just don't understand why the ribbon couldn't have been made smaller so that the words could have fit on the cake.
WV: metra -- Oh, now I get it, they were given metrac measurements for the cake, and couldn't remember how to do the conversion to imperial.
x-sell-ant!
Does that say "somewhere" or "somewhore"?
I love the new look, Cake Wrecks!
...why don't cake places have dictionaries? Then again, you wouldn't be able to make me laugh with these horrors.
I can understand on a level #3 wanting to explain why this person's name was not spelled correctly, but it annoys me when it is assumed that perfect grammar and spelling equals a non food service related position. Or the only reason you are working in a food service position is because you aren't intelligent enough to work in a better position. My husband is a physicist and can't spell worth a damn.
I think those things sticking out of the cake are called "excellances."
I L*O*V*E the Pink Ribbon one - How Wonky *LOL*
YES - We Can Do It!
And we Have to Do It NOW!
FIND A CURE!!
denise
Surviving breast cancer...
http://TeamDenise.org
Mobius ribbons,'innit and not enough space'innit ticks the box for wrecking innit but the black and yellow colour scheme'innit on the excellence cake is cakestastically wrecky 'innit.
Hey mon, innit
(Sorry couldnt stop thinking in slang)
racquine = Creole racoon?or Quebecois ?
That last one looks like a throw rug, which may explains why I want to stomp all over it.
WV: forni. Cake Commandment #6: Thou shalt not forni cake.
LOL, These just seem like classic wrecks, excellent post Jen!
And remember, We are the Champion!
If you do the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 5K, you can register as a team, so first cake makes sense, as a concept, not legibility.
The Excellance cake looks like it was made by the same people that did the "Under Neat That" cake way at the beginning.
I'm glad to see some consistancy there.
Maybe it's Champion University? Like Marshall saying "We are Marshall!"
Let's give the benefit of the doubt people! (but not really)
Love these! :-) The name of the team on that first one is clearly "Urine valet".
And if you don't know what that is, I"m not gonna-- OH COME ON! For heaven's sake, a urine valet is a person who carries the urine! Do I have to explain EVERYTHING??? Lily
I love the moody candlelight of the "excellance" cake.
Could the rant have included a Freudian slip, "some*whore*" else? I'm just asking???
Vanessa
Clearly, I have way too much time on my hands, but have just googled "team unraveled", they are a Three Day Breast Cancer team that walked 60 miles in San Franciso, it seems that Team Unraveled Did Do It!
Find the Cure!
Is it just me, or was Barrett "conglatuated"?
I actually sent the "Excellance" one but maybe someone else submitted it too. It's just highly ironic because the cake was for the 20th anniversary party of the college I work for which is an honors college, yet none of the staff, faculty, or honors students noticed the misspelling until after the night was over and this picture was in the school paper. Makes for a good story though. ;)
Spelled it over the phone and they still messed up. Wow.
~Amy B
Oh Cake Wrecks, I love you. Nothing like the "excellance" of others to make one feel all is right in the world.
It just *could* be that the pink ribbon cake is trying to say "Team Unrivaled," but it came out as "Team Unraveld."
Or some such of a thing....couldn't it just?
As for the " 12" MESSAGE COOKIE," I think we should all appreciate the fact that with this one, someone is getting quite a deal~~ there are two messages for the price of one (one on the cookie itself, and one on the plastic cookie cover).
Perhaps they should have labeled it, " 12" MESSAGE COOKIE with FREE BONUS MESSAGE!"
=^ee^=
Wow. That is a freaky coincidence. My mom is having a double mastectomy right now. Yes now. :(
(And no I'm not complaining about the post - it is wonderful.)
I would like to know what the team name is. And yes, I am sure it is for some endurance fund raising event and entirely appropriate.
As always, thanks for the laughs.
And I'm sorry I missed you at Dragon Con. I didn't get to come Monday after all. Next year I will be there for the whole thing. :)
Alex
(Long time reader and snarky commenter, who is too lazy to find my google account info.)
Hmm...nothing is worse then writing on a cake and halfway through having a brain fart...I especcially like that cookie cake rant! I wish I could get away with things like that!
I'm 95% sure that the "excellance" cake was made for the 20th anniversary of the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. Delicious delicious irony.
the words are running off the first two cakes!
p.s. Is the scarcity of comments an indication that I was not the only one having trouble commenting? I had to refresh 3 times to get a WV image on my first comment. I know I am asking for too much for it to work smoothly on my blackberry. I am having trouble with it loading very slowly and locking up my phone for 5 minutes. :(
Alex
A pink ribbon on a cake for a breast cancer fund-raising team most certainly IS appropriate! If it isn't, then many of us that wear that pink ribbon in support shouldn't be doing it either.
Team Unraveled CERTAINLY deserves a breast cancer ribbon, Vickie!! Most CERTAINLY appropriate! Look 'em up!
Yanno, poor spelling doesn't always mean low intelligence, some people are just poor spellers. My husband can tabulate numbers like you wouldn't believe, eyeball a space and give a square footage number that might be an inch off, and create new 'thingamajigs' to fill a need. But his spelling is bad. I on the other hand always see wrong spelling and abused apostrophes, but anything numerical eludes me.
I'm so glad of all the explanations of the name on the first cake, cause all I could see was Unruuulet.
WV: mopla - once again I've had to mopla-tte off my monitor after reading this blog.
Maybe the "Excellance" wreckorator is from the part of the country where the good folks say Am-buu-laance" and he/she sounded it out.
WV predi- Sunday Sweets are predi, too predi to eat.
We are the champion! I are the greatast! :P
Okay. Am I the only one who doesn't understand what's happening on the cookie cake? Who spelled Lizzie, and for what woman? I don't get it at all.