Friday
Jun192009
Dastardly Dad Designs
June 19, 2009 I guess I have to call this a tie:
Yep - tied for worst icing cohesion and worst neckwear representation. Unless that's supposed to be an alien joystick, of course. In which case, someone needs a checkup. Ew.
How about some tasty powdered hot dogs on the grill?
Mmm. Powdery.
Jeremiah L. submitted this beauty over 10 months ago, and I still have no idea what it's supposed to be. A car? A grill? A set of weights? A toolbox? A lunchbox? Elmo? Herbie the Love Bug? A picnic basket? Bertie Bott's fizzing whizbees? Phil Spector? Seriously, WHAT IS THIS?!?
Stephanie H. & Phyllis L., I think I need to lie down for a bit. That white spot on the bottom chocolate cupcake is making me question my own sanity.
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Reader Comments (190)
"But sheesh, who has a RED grill?"
I have a red grill. :( It doesn't look anything like THAT, though.
"It a gril!"
Glad to see I wasn't the only one to see Chef from South Park in that red "cake".
It is clearly a very overweight man in a red shirt, sitting on a white headstone. He is wearing a mask that says "Happy Father! Day" because he is embarrassed to show his face after two beavers died in his lap. Apparently he bent over, suffocating them, and their flattened bodies and paddle-like tails became his belt.
His pudgy legs have overgrown his knees. One ankle requires support in the form of a large white pin while the other is supported by plastic tableware.
I'm surprised you all didn't recognize this. :)
That last one looks like the http://sahandaaron.com/blog/wp-content/photos/typewriter_guy_c.jpg" rel="nofollow">typewriter guy from Sesame Street..
That letter "D" is trying to escape because it's too embarrassed to be associated with that "tie"!
Yep, I think it's one of those red grills too. Maybe they were just trying to be 'artistic'. Actually I am hoping to find a cake wreck for Father's Day. My dad has a great sense of humor and not doubt would love a wrecked cake!
I kept staring at that thing under the 'tie'... I just couldnt figure out what it was... I hadnt read the yet, but after I did I thought 'where's the D?' Oh there it is! hehehe
And those burgers on the grill look mighty green yum
I think that it's a person, abstract as it is. :o)
I love all of the interpretations of the CCC. It certainly is wrecksational.
I think these Wreckorators are making completely ridiculous CCC's just to spite you, now.
I think the D is so embarrassed/ terrified that it's trying to make a break for it!
I asked my 6 year old what it is. He said, "Maybe a Turkey?"
I too think the red blob is supposed to be a grill- but from the side, rather than top down. The charred hamburger/hotdog combo is actually the lid handle, the white thing is the propane, the brown sticks are the stand and wheels.
Talk about your non-Euclidean geometry.
That has got to be the worst representation of a grill I've ever seen! It looks like something you'd see on a bad acid trip.
Aliana: I laughed. A lot.
It *is* a gril!
If that's Chef, his hat fell off.
The second one almost works. I think with different color choices -- and hot dogs free of mold -- it would have worked.
Those hamburgers look a bit green. Ewww.
I guess I'm having a pregnancy craving because I still want to eat them... all them : )
Raychel - MyCreativeWay.blogspot.com
I would have never guessed that CCC was supposed to be a grill.
The last one is obviously a Rohrshach Cake - just what DO you see?
That hot dog isn't "powdered." It's the one that slipped through the grill into the ash-coverd coals. Then Dad said "carbon is good for the digestion" as he fished the dog out of the coals and put it back on the grill to finish burning.
My first thought about the "tie" cake was that it was a board game spinner which was pointing in the general direction of the missing "D" from "Day" which slid to the bottom. LOL! I had to see the word "tie" to even SEE the tie!
Abstract wreck at its finest!
~Amy B.
wv: loggin: what the lumberjacks do.
uhm... I knew it was a tie, but it was still very distressing.
I seem to see a headrest at the top, and the brown circles at the bottom could be legs. Is it a chair? Like, Dad's chair?
Oh I think its a grill, but your original title for it made me cry laughing. Man I love your blog!
These are absolutely disgusting. . . seriously, some of these cakes really make me wonder about the mental well being of the decorator.
If that red thing is supposed to be a BBQ grill with the lid down, then that baker/decorator should be roasted on one!
HA! Yes, I'm almost positive that last one is supposed to be a grill ("supposed to" being the operative words) but I think Phil Spector is a good second guess ;)
How sweet that professional decorators are bringing in children to decorate cakes for their dads!!
Assuming the knife and fork are ON the cake, the bottom looks like a place setting to me (upside-down) with the white spot being a cup next to a napkin on the right?
I'd have to go with gas grill. Pretty blobby, though.
Powdery hot dogs and moldy hamburgers...yummy, yum, yum... Nothing says Happy Father's Day like a daily dose of penicillin...
I actually think the last "un-cake" looks like Typewriter Guy from Seasame Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3tgrEvpPck
the last one kinda reminds me of the kool-aid guy
Drawn to Caricature said I think the last one might be a taxi or car created by someone with "Constructional dyspraxia" (the inability to relate parts to a whole).
I wonder if that's how cubism came to exist. That CCC strikes me as a very creative attempt to convey some very deep symbolism, but unfortunately none of us earthlings can understand its meaning.
I love these creative little assignments, and I love the responses just as much!
I'm going with the "it a gril" crowd (Aliana ftw). But, if I try really hard and squint my eyes, it kinda looks a little like the Jetson's robot Rosie...only the Dad version also cuts the lawn, chars up some dusty 'dogs, and brings you a beer, all while holding you in the perfectly reclined position for watching sports or "resting your eyes."
Phew, that took some doing. But Dad's worth it.
I thought I was looking at the backside of Mario working on plumbing with the third picture.
they did a good job on the knife and fork though. whoa... almost real.
Also, Knitty is my new hero.
My daughter suggested that the last cake was the father's head but was needing eyes. Maybe?
Jami H. :)
I thought it was supposed to be "Further".
Clearly the last one is a Transformer. Happy Fathers Oy everyone!
I think the last cake is supposed to be a grill.... good try!
lol, I think that last one is a George Foreman grill or something, wow that's ugly.
And that Alien "Joystick", gross!!
Kara
My money's on Phil Spector for pic #3. Nothing else looks that weird.
The third one is blowing my mind. I can see that it MIGHT be a gas grill ...
... except I think the person who designed and decorated it might have been huffing the propane.
Gad. My head hurts.
Word verification: graticke. Gratitude that you didn't get an icke CCC.
Yikes! It's like Elmo roadkill slapped on a gas grill covered in ketchup. Wretched.
not to mention that on the first one that somehow the D from Day got put way down at the bottom.............