Monday
Jul202009
Say What?
July 20, 2009 Ah, sweet failures in communication.
Pushy, pushy. You WILL be Miss Charles, hear? Now, love PF Changs! Love them!! 
At least it sounds right when you read it aloud. Although you do have to wonder: if you don't know, what makes you think the people eating your cake will?
Some folks just can't resist telling everyone when they're finished with a task. "G-r-e-a-t...J-o-b...there! Done!"
Resistance is futile.Lindsay J., Tracey B., Amy J., & Anony M., congradulations on are job done.
- Related Wreckage: Jen Pipes Down
Reader Comments (106)
The bakery that make the "What's Are Name" cake must not be from Baltimore.
Congratulations on your conformation...Resistance is futile
FTW
...I see a T-shirt in the future.
I read the last word on the first cake as "Change." More importantly, I interpret this as a divorce cake: "You will no longer be Mrs. [Surname]."
I'll alert my church to the potential for humiliating error a la the last cake.
Okay. I give. I don't get the "Resistance is Futile" reference.
I LOVE this website as do my daughters. I laugh so hard, I cry and that is a very wonderful thing. Thank you.
Diane said This only explains why someone would want it on a cake, not why the cake is such a wreck.
It also doesn't explain why the cake appears to have been decorated in the Colts' blue and white rather than the Ravens' purple and yellow. (Dang I feel old)
Courteous Chihuahua - Thanks for the reference! I was thinking something along those lines, but wasn't quite getting the image. That was excellent.
WE ACCEPT YOU
WE ACCEPT YOU
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
Since I work for a confirmation program called Confirm not Conform I especially appreciate that last one (and posted it on our Facebook page, with credits. I hope that's OK; let me know if you want me to take it down).
Conformation...how something is put together,ie; that horse has terrible conformation. Hahaha
Terribly hilarious, these wrecks!
~Amy B.
good job done! lol...
The "What's are name" cake should be purple, not blue, if it's a Ravens cake as suggested by the other stuff in the picture...Apparently the decorator can't deal with grammar OR color.
YAAAAAAY!!!!! Love 'em all. Laughing here, I also thought "Miss Charles" was having a gender change. heeeeeeeeee
Your comment on the last one made me snot myself a little. A sure sign of a good day to come. Thank you so much! :)
Maybe Michael is just the most symmetrical and well-proportioned Catholic out there?
Maybe Michael is a horseman? It's 4H time!
These cakes remind me of The Big Doofus' "Engrish" posts.
One day, cake technology will be advanced enough to have spell check XD
Sheesh--barkeries should have a list of commonly mispelled words posted right above the work tables.
Although a "conformation" cake would be awesome.
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I work with both the girl who decorated the "conformation" cake and the one who sent it in. It really makes my life to see it up here xD
and the name is in fact spelled right. So it's only a twofer.
Love it, made my Monday worth while!
Is someone sleeping in the moderation room? How did that radio ad get through?!?
Becky
Conformation is the Catholic celebration of coming into adulthood. That's the name of the ceremony. It's right.
All these cakes are great!
Mindy: Catholics become confirmed into the religion, they don't conform (according to them at least. Personal opinions vary) Check the definitions XD
As the annonomous one who submitted said Conformation cake, yes, it does also say Congradulations, making two spelling errors. ^.~ I'd also like to point out that the girl who decorated the cake did a lovely job with the writing, just not the spelling. Its my photo that failed at capturing the fact that it is legible XD
Borg ref or not, this cake was not intentional, and I had a glorious freakout over whether or not to scrape it and fix it when i found it TEN MINUTES before pickup time. I decided not to. No one but us noticed to my knowledge, which only makes it better!
Baltimore Ravens explanation not withstanding, clearly the 2nd cake is the answer to the age-old demand, "Say my name, B****!" as evinced so well in American Pie.
that last one reminds me of work. we have a folder for "currant conformations"
There's been a discussion raging on a horse forum about confirmation vs. conformation - probably one of the most misspelled words in horsedom. I linked back to today's post here on CakeWrecks so they could get a laugh about the confusion (for a change!).
Love this blog by the way...
Am I the only one who thought the first cake was for a contestant in the Miss Charles beauty pageant?
Conformation. Hmm. For my conformation, I think I'd prefer chocolate frosting.
You never know, maybe Charles WILL be Miss, not missed.
for the first cake... is "bettercream" better than buttercream. perhaps i don't know enough about cakes. but really bettercream???
Well, at least there's one other person who totally doesn't get the "resistance is futile" reference. I guess I'm a different kind of nerd.....lol, I'm a dog nerd.
Like the horse people, dog show people also have an eyeroll fit whenever somebody spells it "confirmation". My first thought as a "dog person" was, "Well, maybe they got a cake for their dog's first specialty win" LOL. At least I'm not the only one who found that cake humorous for a completely different reason :)
2nd cake: Oh, right, the Baltimore Ravens, sure...??? I was hoping the person ordering when asked, "and who is the cake for?" replied in a foggy moment, "What's 'er name(?)" and the wreckerator just went with that with a minor spelling embellishment. But it's probably a spin(?) on the Ravens thingy...
Yeah, the second one is definitely supposed to be a Ravens cake. Why they wouldn't choose AT LEAST ONE of the team colors for the icing is beyond me.
Well, one is "conforming" to rules after confirmation, so at least there could be some sense made of it. I love the humor on that one
Finally, a Ravens cake wreck made onto this blog!
(I live in Maryland, 30 miles north of Balmer, and around here the purple black are sported proudly). The decorator must be a Steelers fan.
Echoing - WHAT is the CBS ad????
Just pitifully hilarious - whyshould our kids learn to spell to get a better job??????
I just found your site through Failed Craft and I have know idea how I got there, but I have literally laughed so hard I cried. This is the greatest page ever. Just the greatest!! Kudos!
Do you have an accent? "Are" and "our" don't sound the same in the midwest, usually.
Shame about the last one. I won't throw tomatoes at Miranda but I can't help associating conformation with AQHQ line classes.
wv: gynds...nope not touching it.
The second one reminds me of the time my cousin painted Grandpa's dog's house.
She scrawled in big black letters: LADY IS ARE DOG.
Maybe my cousin grew up to be a cake decorator!
Mel said...
that last one reminds me of work. we have a folder for "currant conformations"
*****
Heh heh...
Either you work in a raisin factory, or the people labeling those folders can't spell, either!
Curiouser and curiouser...
>^??^<
Mindy @ 3:13 PM:
Sorry Mindy, but the Catholic coming of age ceremony you are referring to is actually called "Confirmation." However, conformation is in my opinion a much better title. (teehee)
Oh.Em.G!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
As Miranda notes, "conformation" is literally accurate but oh so wrong.
I pictured Michael the Chocolate Eating Horse.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Resistance IS futile, so let's go mad.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Oh that conformation one made me nearly pee my pants! Priceless.
Yes I dated a boy once that deserved a cake congratulating him on his conformation. My, oh my.
Matt said Do you have an accent? "Are" and "our" don't sound the same in the midwest, usually.
They do in Bawlmer, hon.
@Matt:
Sometimes I think I come from a different planet, rather than the west. "Our" and "are" sound different to me, as well. But this is coming from a person who pronounces "yolk" and "folks" and "polka dot" how they're spelled. But I'm told by everyone I ask, they're pronounced "yoke" and "fokes" and "poke-a dot". Even the dictionary says I'm wrong. Ah well.
I am happy, a Catholic cake!
Even if it is misspelled. ;-)
~Lucia the Catholic
Is that a Freudian slip? It should be Confirmation, not Conformation.
These are hysterical! I feel sorry for the poor people who went to get their cake and discovered these errors. http://blog.sweetservices.com/sweetscandyblog/
See, I looked at Mickael's conformation, and immediately asked 'Who took best of opposite sex?'
Heh, GO RAVENS! A Steelers' fan definitely decorated that cake! HAHAHA! (And yes, OUR and ARE do sound the same around Balmer, Merlin.)
As friend to many in the dog show world, that last cake cracked me up!
That first one just *screams* "shot-gun wedding!"
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