Happy Earth Day to You...
April 29, 2009 So.
Hey everybody. This is john (the hubby of Jen) taking on today's post since Jen is...um...busy. Yeah. So how 'bout that post yesterday, huh? It's like one minute everything's all hunky-dory, and then next thing I know Jen's threatening to strike over something to do with a Disney font. Last I saw, she was on the couch in her memory foam slippers with a pint of Chunky Monkey and watching SGA reruns. I believe her exact words to me were, "YOU write it!!!" And I see the facial tic is back. Greeeaaat.
Which brings us to Earth Day!!! (Wait. Why are we still doing Earth Day cakes? It was like a week ago. *sigh*) Earth Day!!! Who doesn't love cake for their Earth Day? I thought it would be hard to find Earth Day cakes but it turns out those kooky decorators are still making them!
Our first cake was actually made for some guy named Scopios. I mean, what a crazy name, right? But this guy must really love Earth Day 'cause someone got him a cake.
Too bad this decorator doesn't know how to spell!*
And how about this next one?
Hey Tori Beth! Earth Day's been around for a long time ya know. What, were you born, like, a year ago?
And finally, here's the last one, which is why it's called finally.
Who else thinks we should take the airbrush out of the hands of the bakers? Who's with me?!?! You know. 'Cause the meat folks could put them to better use. For ham glazes. And signs.
So that's my post. Hopefully Jen will be back soon, although I just heard her tell the cat "Spaceship Earth is IN Epcot" between mouthfuls.
Katie V., Chelle, & Sarah A., Wreck On!
*See, what I did here is I took the "B" out of the word "Birthday" to make it sound like "Earth Day" even thought that is clearly not what the cake was supposed to say. I did this because there were almost no actual Earth Day cakes submitted, which means that either a) they were all fantastic, b) there were none made, or c) everybody has thrown their batteries into a lake and, thusly, nobody has a working camera. Thank you and good night!
Reader Comments (91)
I think everyone who kept commenting over and over about the "Epcot center" fiasco are hiding themselves as anonymous now saying "i knew it was spaceship earth!"
where are the apologies is what I want to know.
and, p.s. everyone who is pointing out the photoshop mistakes ::facepalm:: is this your first time on the internet?? the b is missing for 'earth day' get it? irthday? now don't you feel foolish
I think that I might be a little bit in love with "Anonymous" that posted at 1:12. <2
The comments are almost as funny as the actual post. Nice job on irth Day. I'm thinking it could catch on and replace the other Earth Day. Think how much could be saved if we celebrated with one less letter.
Wow...the photoshopping on those Irthday cakes looks so....PROFESSIONAL ;)
Funny post, John!
The first one looks like it has a half eaten cookie on top. Blech.
Oh, we are streeeeetching, aren't we?
Strategically speaking, it probably wasn't the smartest thing to dedicate an entire week to a non-holiday for which almost zero cake-related content exists.
I almost think the insanity-inducing repetitive comments were a form of blogger karma.
This too shall pass, guys.
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Sadly, I noticed this about the readers a month or so ago when a commenter asked what a CCC was, and I jumped in and answered in a comment, and lo and behold, someone asked again about what in the world is a CCC not ten comments after.
I LOVE the comments, as they are entertaining, and most see stuff I missed. But, thank you, John for teaching folks oh, so gently, with a great and funny post! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
And can I ask for forgiveness ahead of time when we misspell and use bad grammar??
bahahahahaa omg this cracked me up. i can't believe all the people so quickly pointed out that it was EPCOT and how OBVIOUS it was with the Disney Font even.. *HIGH FIVE*
lmao
i love it cuz Jen plainly wrote it's name out (spaceship earth).. and btw.. i went on there recently cuz we went to Florida for new years.. and that space ride thingie in there is pretty damn cool. yep. true story.
but people were OH-so-informed enough to point out that "oh.. that's Epcot".. but clearly had no idea what the hell that big space ball thingie was actually called to completely not even notice that she wrote it plain as day right underneath it.
props to you Jen!! hehe
haha anyhoo.. you guys crack me up.
keep it up!
poor Jen.. lol
*hugs*
WV: crottio
is that like a crotch?
el crotcho? hahaha
sweet!
I was sorely tempted to send in a scan of the Walmart newspaper insert which featured a cake with a paper doll as the "topper". The paper doll's skirt was folded like a fan and she was lying down on the job. I wonder if Walmart inserts are the same all over the country?
Super post John! Jen, I felt your pain yesterday. Please come back and we promise to restore your faith in your readers.
May your future be full of buttercream, puns, and laughter!
Thank you for all your hard work!
maybe we could petition blogger to replace the word verification with something more like 'basic intelligence verification' or 'reading comprehension verification'... Of course that would take away the fun of having a 'comments wrecks' blog, but might help a bit with retaining the sanity...
It always amuses me how residents of a certain continent require those "after-mirth" explanations after a joke in order to "get it". Amusing :)
Hey John, those cakes are photoshopped.
You're Welcome
this message is for Jen, so, John, please go away.
ahh, nothing better than some Stargate Atlantis and the hotness that is Joe Flanigan (and his hair), and the hypnotic hands of David Hewlett to escape all the crap that lands on you on the bad days. sigh. ok, i think i have just talked myself into a couple of episodes of season 4. cheer up! season 5 dvds comes out this summer. mine is on pre-order at Amazon. cant wait.
(pssst. if the ice cream isnt doing it for you, have you seen the infamous beach photos?)
I can't wait until my Irthday...:) hehe
Okay... I am going to come clean. I was one of THOSE people that commented on it being Epcot, but at least let me defend myself.
1. I did not know what Spaceship Earth was.
2. I wasn't "correcting" Jen, from the caption, I thought she was guessing...Usually I can pick up on her jokes...I guess I was a little slow that morning.
3. Even though my comment showed up as around the 25th, when I went on there were zero comments made.
Sooo..at least for myself, I thought I was being helpful (like how we all were trying to figure out the smoking lamb). I apologize and Jen, this is the best website ever!!! You rock!!
Aww, don't be upset, Jen! Although I have to say I approve of your way of blowing off steam. May your SGA reruns be full of blowing up Wraith ships and other things that will relieve stress. ;)
Also, I love your blog and your sense of humor. Please don't stay away long!
Jen,
you should make a rule:
NO DUMMIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO POST COMMENTS!!
Mr/Mrs Anonymous who posted at 10:39 A.M.-he did it on purpose!! If you had read the whole post you MIGHT have figured that out! grr..some people...*shaking head furiously back and forth*
To dear Rebecca and the others from yesterday's post,
You guys are awesome. Jen and I know that ya'll were just being helpful and it was totally our fault for not moderating comments quickly enough. (Side note: We really do have to moderate comments. Trust me. Most of you wouldn't like what the trolls write.)
So please, continue to be part of the comments board. Days like yesterday keep it interesting.
Sincerely,
john
That second cake looks photo shopped.
Great post :)
Re the couple of comments referring to the "crazy cat lady" scenario: it's a myth! There's nothing crazy about having cats around.
Cats have a very calming, soothing influence on the nerves, and have even been shown to lower blood pressure.
My prescription: cats ala mode.
It's funny because I was at EPCOT today and rode Spaceship Earth. <3
John, your post today made me laugh out loud, at least half at myself because I didn't realize you photoshopped until the second photo.
B.O.B. - *you* made me spit on my computer. Mortal Combat - knife on a rope. Scopios. Love it.
wv- weavo (n.) a cake decorating technique,particularly favored in 1980's wedding cakes, usu. basket-weavo
Happy Irthday! :)
Hey wow you DO have a user for yourself John (Hubby of Jen). I should've checked that before commenting (although it has been relevant in the past! I'm just a bit slow to mention it :P) OK well have a nice day.
Such poor photoshopping... lol.
I read the first 12 comments or so on the last one and my head about exploded...poor Jen. Get well soon.
To everyone saying it's photoshopped:
::epic facepalm::
As someone who uses Photoshop every day as part of my job, let me just explain to you ... very slowly ... that it takes less than five minutes with the program to learn that there's this nifty little tool called the Clone Stamp that would not only be easier to use than cutting out and enlarging/moving a circle, but would also produce results so believable that you'd be tempted to call the "wreckmaker" up yourself and tell her what for.
I have faith in him that, had he wanted you to believe these were actual wrecks while photoshopping them, he could have made them at least mostly convincing.
He didn't.
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1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.
oh, goodness. I am very discouraged by stupid people. I love the "irthday" joke and the photoshopping, but some of these comments are killing me....
1)the one for the one year old is a phony.. looks like they photoshop/cut n pasted the upper righthand corner of the cake over the B in birthday. Jen and john, you guys need to screen better, or your site will lose it's cred.
2)That second cake looks digitally edited to remove the "B"
john-- I am sorry your humor was lost on people. isn't it rough to be called out by people who are wrong(jen agrees, i know)? Funny that they only noticed the "problem" with one cake. sheesh!
The Tori Beth cake... that is a bad case of PhotoChopping.
Only because I do a lot of this for side work, I noticed that the candle that sits where the 'B' should be is actually a clone stamp of the red candle in the upper right corner (Look hoe the counter is in the middle of the cake in a nice perfect semi circle)
Not to say it isn't still a wreck, but the misspelling is more photo editing than mistake I think.
~D
nice photoshop John! i couldnt do better! "Irthday" Hilarious!!!! when i first saw the Irthday post i was like, "Huh!" cause i forgot to read the post!!!
<3 I LOVE CAKE WRECKS! <3
Oh,my.
It's EPCOT
No it's Spaceship earth
No, It's EPCOT
Epcot isn't capitilized anymore
Epcot Center?
NO, you idiot, it isn't called "center" anymore
But it is Spaceship Earth @ Epcot?
Right.
Who's on first
I"M FIRST!!!!
You photoshopped so you could be first didn't you?
Crikey, no wonder Jen's incommunicado
*heads for the closet for the big, fuzzy, St. Bernard slippers, then to freezer for some Cherry Garcia*
Move over Jen, I brought "I, Mudd."
All 3 of those are very bad fakes. Detracts from the site as a whole! Let's go out and find real earthday wrecks.
Um, not to be the devil's advocate, but the last two cakes on this post were photo shopped. It's quite obvious...sorry.
Dea (How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?) - that made me LOL even more than the posts!
Can't help wishing I'd see the post before all those comments were deleted. The mind boggles.
WV: expat = EPCOT!
Wooow, I feel like writing a song "Where have all the posts gone?" I was just reading the FAQ which has the question on EPCOT? So now I am reminded again how the craziness ensued. I find it interesting that no comments were deleted from the previous days post. I only hope that none of the hilarity was deleted. Thanks Jon, and Jen for such a great blog, keep going strong 'cuz you never know when there might be another EPCOT right around the corner.
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Yet.
Thats a lot of deleted comments on this page....nasty people.
I got the Spaceship Earth thing... ;) xx
Oh great. Now we're going to start an EPCOT about Photoshop.
"It was photoshopped!"
"I'm professional and I KNOW it was photoshopped!"
"Guys, it wasn't photoshopped."
"YES IT WAS! This blog needs to step it up!"
"People, I just realized that that thing is photoshopped."
ANGRY FACE.
@ Dea - LOL!!!!!
@Ayy - Heeheehee!!! Yeah, it looked like it for awhile...and looks like there might be one for today's post (1/3/2013). We had 2 comments in a row (4 is the minimum for an Epcot, ya know) complaining that the cakes weren't really wrecked because, apparently, *everyone* knows that you should make sure the decorators don't use buttercream to replicate a decoration done in fondant because that's simply not possible...I'm surprised Theadare hasn't made a re-appearance with his laser pistol yet...you'd think these people would know better than to cross Theadare...(or Jen & John(thoj), for that matter...)