This One's For The Ladies
June 25, 2009 (NOTE: For the ladies, not the kiddies. Still SFW, though.)
NASA wanted to do something special for all the lady astronauts of the world:
[biting lip] Wow. So many innuendo-laced jokes, so little time. And if my mom didn't read this blog (Hi, Mom!), you can bet I'd be saying something about the fallacy that men can't organize - much less erect - a project of this size. Or how nice it is to see NASA giving women the upper hand in the space program, so that they, too, can get ahead. In fact, I'd probably wonder aloud if it wasn't rather cold in the exhibit hall, if that wouldn't put too fine a point on it.
However, since my mom *does* read this blog (Hi, Mom!), all I'm going to say is this, and to the cake creator: don't take my good-natured ribbing too hard. The fact that you got a government agency to pay for your services makes you a Wreck star.
And for you deprived souls who didn't get the FotC reference, watch this:
- Related Wreckage: Dirty-Minded Decorators
UPDATE: For you doubting Thomases calling "photoshop" and getting John all aggravated, here's another photo of the same cake:
Clearly, I need to get him out of the house
more.
Reader Comments (237)
flight of the conchords.. yes. that reference made me love you even more than i already do, jenn
I just love the guy standing to the right of it casually checking his iphone and not paying a bit of attention to what is looming next to him. TOO FUNNY!
I'd love to get my chops around that!
John...I'm gonna pass on clicking the picture to make it bigger. Really. Why you'd even suggest that, I can't imagine. I...wow..I can't do that.
Dang.
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Awesome post!
I guess I would never have noticed the similarities if they hadn't been pointed out. It doesn't really look that much like a you-know-what to me at all. And yes, I do know what a you-know-what looks like. I guess I just don't see giant male reproductive organs everywhere I look...
This entire post was greatness, the penis, the commentary, the saying on the cake. Greatness.
any day that flight of the conchords can make a guest appearance is a good day in my book. NASA fail.
Wow.
Someone was really thinking with their (other) head when they "erected" this phallic beauty! ("beauty" is sarcasm).
I hope they used protection when creating this um..thing. (Gloves! I meant gloves!! LOL)
~Amy B.
Thank you. I know have Flight of the Conchords stuck in my head...
What in the flaming hell? Aside from the rocket ships, can anyone give me an explaination of what that big, red, you-know-what-lookin' object is??
This. Is. AWESOME! LOL!
How did we not mention the "We've 'come' a long way" sign?
Really?
Okay, time for the T-shirt!!! Rocket booster ready for for take-off!
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind…and one GIGANTIC love..er..fuel tank for women everywhere!
I have to share this picture with soooo many people! TOO FUNNY!!!
Thank you so much for the FotC reference. This blog gets better every day!!! (Bret is so cute! ^^)
LOL @ the "irth" sign in the background....my mind just keeps adding a "G" to the beginning making that photo even more funny to me...
Oh my gosh Jenn, you are too freakin' funny! Those puns were the best! Hi Jenn's Mom!!
Houston, we have a problem...
Let's keep it clean, Jen. :^)
FotC + Cake Wrecks = LOVE.
Diana Gallagher did a song called "A Reconsideration of Anatomical Docking Maneuvers in A Zero G Environment" years ago as noted in the following Wiki article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space
Words to the song can be found here - http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/docking-maneuvers.html
Enjoy!
Lady QKat
There are no words.
Really. No words.
(except maybe "WHAT were they THINKING??" 0_o )
that was perfect!!!!!
i was sooo glad i went to the bathroom before checking the blog.
i would have peed myself for sure!!
the video was awsome!!!
im gona show it to my dad and die laughing at the look on his face!!
what a way to go!!
Unfortunately, I work for NASA. *Sigh* I can't imagine why neither a secretary or the individual who ordered the cake checked to make it it looked right. If I attended the event, I would hang my head in shame and cry out, "Who in the world ordered this!" I guess it's a good thing I was not invited.
Also, Love the site. I check it every morning to have my chuckles for the day. I even share it with others. See! I spread the joy around.
This is just too funny! I second (or third, etc) the call for a shirt. Just the cake and the word Shuttlecock.
Dang. That's a "wtf?!?" if ever I've seen one.
Should say, 'We've Come a Schlong Way.'
Wow, that really is a giant orange penis. A friend of mine had a NASA cake at her wedding because she and her husband met at Space Camp (seriously), and it was not a wreck. It was definitely one of the best weddings I've ever been to.
WOW...just...wow...
It's actually probably not photoshopped. Here's what it's based on. That big red thing is the "external tank", a legitimate piece of NASA hardware. Any phallic resemblances are in the mind of the beholder. :D
http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A1704/170482/300_170482.jpg
Here's what the whole assembly looks like from above.
http://www.damninteresting.net/content/space_shuttle_tank.jpg
Wiki article on the external tank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_external_tank
seriously? this cannot be real. skyrockets in flight . . . .
MY WORD!!!
Im going to be scarred for life o_O
Thank you. I am more likely than EVER to stick to my diet and NOT eat cake this weekend.....
I love your blog, but can you not post things upfront that aren't family friendly
:(
I recently found your blog and love this recent post! It was hilarious!! Thank you for "outing" all the mistakes on cakes.
Photoshopped.
Do a close-up (click on the picture) and examine the area to the top left of the, uh, top. There's a thin line of background that has a little wobble in it, like when you're fixing points in Photoshop and you change directions.
Bummer, because this is hysterical. (Pun intended.)
- Nonny
1. I love your site!
2. I love the FotC!
3. Shades of Zap Brannigan. Leila would be SO annoyed!
Great cake!
Great puns!
Great FOTC reference!
AWESOME is all I can say. Just "Fruedien" awesome.
1,000,000 points if you ever post a FOTC cake, especially if it's one of Alby, the racist dragon
I daresay this should be on a T-shirt with the quote 'Huston, we have a problem."
You mike get sued by NASA, though.
In that case, you shouldn't have too hard a time finding someone to defend you pro bono.
Yep.
If you look at the windows on the front of the shuttle, it looks like it's smiling.
Just sayin'...
Photoshopped? As if. This is approximately 200 lbs of unadulterated wreckiness. Cake Wrecks in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
wv...inerapi..my inner rapi pie wants me to make a real rapi pie.
The only thing missing are two LOX tanks at the bottom, those are usually round...
Tanks for the photo! I nearly coughed up my lunch when I saw it!
Ew. That cake gives me the willies. Ha! I made my own pun. But you are the pun queen, Jen!
It's oddly mesmerizing, isn't it.
Or, clearly I need a date.
the little white "growth" at the top is also an added bonus.
So many innuendos in one post . . . you're the best, Jen! But then to at a Flight of the Conchords vid, that just puts this post in my top 5!
Oh my god, it's the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon! It's perfect!
/anime nerd joke
(But seriously, ack.)