All Your Base Are Be Wrong To Us
November 18, 2009 I've had a few requests for more sports-related cakes, since I think there was a World Series or something going on at some point in the recent past. (My perception is uncanny, I know. Let's just say my "sporty sense" was tingling.)
So let's see...that's baseball, right? Okey doke. [virtually rifling through photos] Uhhh. Ah! Here we go:
Mmm, this reminds me of that most fragrant of bakery delicacies: the moldy kitchen sponge. And that Christmas tinsel? Flossing WIN.
What's wrong with this baseball diamond? Ah, the answer is in the question, grasshoppah. [nodding sagely] The answer...is in the question.
In fact, most of the "diamonds" on these Wrecks are anything but:
Although frankly, singling out the diamond issue here is a little like complaining there are no in-flight peanuts while the plane is going down.
Now, I never thought I would say this, but...Thank goodness for plastic flotsam!
How else would we know this is an Elmo/baseball kite?
Wow. This may be the first time I've ever hoped someone was colorblind. You know, for his/her own sake.Natalee S., Mary G., Dawn B., Hannah, & Ashley P., those "baseballs" are terrifying. Hold me?
- Related Wreckage: Sporty Spice Cakes
NOTE: No, you're not losing your mind; two of these Wrecks have been posted before. Oopsie. I was, uh, testing your memory. Yeah. That's it.
(On the other hand, perhaps you are losing your mind, and only think you're reading this right now. Have you considered that? Hmmm?)
Reader Comments (65)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
You know what it took after reading your blog FOREVER to actually get me to comment?! Mayhap it was the FUNNIEST FREAKING title EVAR. OMG, so funny...
*wipes tears*
Loving "all your base, all your base, all your base are belong to us" references!!! I'm not a fan of baseball but even I can spot these wrecks from the outfield! Get it? 'Cause it's far? Ok... I'll go sit in the corner and think about what I just did...
On Steven's birthday cake, what's with the big nails, with a random blood stain to right of each nail? Does Steven have Stigmata?
Lol, I love the "complaining about no in-flight peanuts when the plane is going down" comment. Priceless.
WV: prspated. The cakes are horrible wrecks, but I am sure the wreckerator prspated trying to get them done in time.
Move Zig!
Haha, the funniest part was the title!
Umm... yikes?
Holy crap, am I the first to comment? That second one looks like they started making a pool table and then changed to baseball midway. And well I wondered if your title was a slight reference to Homestarrunner?
and it's one! two! three strikes you're out at the old. ball. game.
go team cake wrecks!
The children. Won't somebody please think of the children?????
Man. Some people really don't know what a diamond shape is.
I give major props for the "All your base..." That and the moldy cake...
first cake- take the baseball stuff off it and you could pretend it was a dinosaur dig cake.
second cake- maybe pretend it was for some masonic group? those could look like digging utensils on the sides.
third cake- looks more like a cricket oval.
fourth cake- we recently learned on the big bang theory that people consider kite flying a sport (trying to take down other kites in teams.)
fifth cake- there's no excuse for that.
and the title!!!!!!!
I like the first cake, the little dude on it looks like he's fallen down and is shielding his face/crawling away from the invading wreckerator or alien life form.
-KP
It's like the people who decorated those cakes had never, ever seen any sort of baseball field in their entire lives.
Captain: "Somebody set us up the bomb!"
Time to blow these wrecks to smithereens! Love how the one wrecker lasso'ed up the whole team in their, uh, "diamond"
Today class... is all about the title. Period.
All your base ...
http://video.google.com/videosearch?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1R2GGLL_en&q=all+your+base+are+belong+to+us&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=4xQES8moAdSFnAf3q8Bm&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCQQqwQwAw#
I made a baseball themed cake for my daughter when she turned 3 years ago. Of course it was lame that I uses green candy sprinkles for grass but I'm pretty sure I did a decent job on the baseball diamond shape.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e349/Goofball_Lt_G/Treats/HighRes_WF05B031869797121.jpg
I've never seen baseballs wearing crowns of thorns before. I think I'll leave the religious puns alone.
How un-American! Who in America doesn't know what a Baseball diamond looks like?
Sports and an All Your Base reference? Your wit strikes again, Jen! LOVING it!
I can't believe that the "Kevin" cake is a professional wreck...
I lost my coffee. My coffee is all gone. It's dripping from my monitor and it's all your fault; your incredible title ruined my morning coffee, alas, alas! =)
I think the Steven cake is actually supposed to be the Harvard logo.
Wow. Those are interestingly shaped diamonds for sure!
Amy B-H
As far as I'm concerned, any cake with Elmo on it is already wreck-tastic. But I'm with all the other geeks out there who say the best part of this post is the header. Will have the remixed "All your base" in my head all day now.
Okay, I have to give you props for managing to exceed the nerd quotient with your "All your base" reference in a sports-themed post! Kudos!
Never could understand all the fuss about Rounders.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
You know what it took after reading your blog FOREVER to actually get me to comment?! Mayhap it was the FUNNIEST FREAKING title EVAR. OMG, so funny...
*wipes tears*
I concur. That made my boyfriend look at my like I was a madwoman on a bender....probably becouse I laughed like one over this.
Am I crazy (OK, I know the answer to that part) or in the first one does it look like there's a skeleton crawling up from the ground under the pitcher? I guess that's what you get for playing baseball in notoriously haunted graveyards...or maybe it's a Mets fan
Anyway, assuming there's home plate under the label, at least the first one got the diamond shape down. Umm...yay?
I think that the condoms next to the "diamond" take the cake! :)
The first game of the Sesame Street Fighting Elmos at Quicksand Flats Park was, sadly, also their last.
^..^
ROFL! The title, the "like complaining there are no in-flight peanuts while the plane is going down" line.. it's too much, please make it stop!
I don't like the looks of those baseball bats on the 2nd cake...0_o
The Elmo heads would frighten a child. "Mommy, why did they bury Elmo in the baseball diamond???"
I really dislike airbrushing on cakes and the first cake is just another example of why. Moldy cake, anyone? *shudder*
And I STILL laugh at AYB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
Until I saw the four-- count 'em: FOUR-- little baseballs on the first cake, I thought it was depicting "Swamp Thing."
And if your cake shows the Bermuda Triangle combined with a pickaxe or two,well...sounds like bad news is on the way, Steven.
wv: eurica-- Eurica! Looks like Elmo frosted his own cake!
I love the title! It too brought me out of the woodwork to comment.
Also, the magical combination theme cake of baseball, christmas, poo and moldy kitchen sponge.
Mmm... appetizing.
It's probably just me, but the second cake reminds me of Harvard's insignia (with an extra book).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harvard_Wreath_Logo_1.svg
Good one. The "hold me" line is used in the book I just bought from you, but c'mon. It's a GOOD line.
Also a good book. I read it twice yesterday after tearing it out of the Amazon.com cardboard wrapper thingy. I'll be right there with you if another one comes out. :)
*faceslap* oh, where to begin?
Gotta love that wonky oval. where the heck are the bases? There's only 2. Cracked icing, baby blue trim. It looks like the batter is getting ready to defend himself in a tousle on the golf course against the gang of three! Nice how they wrote Birthday right over the base and Kevin's name straddles the base line/curve.
Elmo baseball kite--is that a standard cake? it looks ready to be written on. why would Elmo heads and baseballs be a standard cake? at least there's sprinkles....although they're badly sprinkled. and again with the icky blue trim.
The last one--if it weren't for the Frankenstein baseballs with angry stitching, I would not have guessed this was a baseball cake. Not with pink bases with white roses and blue base lines on a field of poo brown. I don't know WHAT it would be. And again, blue trim. Is it to signify this is a "boy" cake? these blues don't match anything!
#2: nails and a poo triangle with dirty marshmallows. I'm stumped for words.
#1: moldy green is my favorite! look, it's toxic. The players have fled and the one that remains has keeled over. Unless he's cowering in terror from the attack of the giant baseballs, fearing he'll be battered and tied up with xmas ribbon. But hey, at least the poo brown trim isn't blue!
Tigerwolf said...
"The first game of the Sesame Street Fighting Elmos at Quicksand Flats Park was, sadly, also their last."
HILARIOUS!! What an image!
Gary said...
"On Steven's birthday cake, what's with the big nails, with a random blood stain to right of each nail? Does Steven have Stigmata?" *snicker*
@Keefer and Dennis--LOL!
I LOL'd at the Elmo heads.
Spring forth my burly protector and save me!
@Tigerwolf-- I missed the word "Sesame" on first read, and saw only "Street Fighting Elmos..." lol
@joanne-- If that IS a standard cake, I think we all can think of a few things to write on it! Ha!
Erin, I came in here to say exactly what you said. The second cake is clearly the Harvard Logo.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/shared/media/ggallery/webgraphic/AFG-070828-006.jpg
I've been living in Boston too long...
Is it weird that I think the Elmo one is cute?
I think Steven's cake has the coded message "Screwball / Jolly Green Giant's Bikini Briefs / Screwball."
I find the Elmo one very disturbing.
That is an awesome title for this post. I love you and your nerdy ways.
Speaking of... more Doctor Who? As long as they are not like, you know, incredibly heart-breaking. Much appreciated.
Anybody remember Madballs?
The baseball triangle merely points out that the third base is the charm.