Tuesday
Sep152009
I'm This Many
September 15, 2009 Let's see if you can guess how old these cake celebrants are:
(Ah, phone orders, how I love thee...)This next one's a bit harder because of the lousy penmanship, but give it a minute: it'll come to you.
Did you get it? Huh? Didja?
Seriously, how fabulous is this? The baker took a simple two-word inscription ("You're 31!"), turned it into a three-word inscription, and then misspelled every word. ("Your thirtee won")
And then there's that comma. Just look at it, sitting there all nonchalantly, mocking my every attempt to comprehend its existence. Grr. I tell ya, if there's one thing I hate, it's smug punctuation marks. Yeah. It's all, "Hey, you should pause for breath here, even though the sentence has technically already ended." Aaaugghh!!
I can't take it anymore!
The comma must be stopped!!
[patting down hair]
Ahem.
So, where were we?
Oh, right. Well, I have no idea how old Alicia here is...
...but at least there are no stinkin' commas.Jennifer S., Cari B., & Alicia W., I've noticed that more people are suggesting I take a day off lately. I have no idea why.
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Reader Comments (104)
I'm gonna say that Alicia is 20. It's like saying you're now a tweenager ANNND you reached your twentieth birthday!!
Okay. *Cracks knuckles*.
"Half way 230": I think anonymous is right, and it must mean 25.
"Your thirtee won": I can't even hazard a guess, I'm laughing too hard. It's really sad when the baker's penmanship is so bad that we can't tell just how wreckly the cake is.
"Tweeteenth": I can see mashing up "twelve" and "thirteen" and getting "tweeteen". 13 is still a little old to be getting a pumpkin coach on your cake, but only a little.
The first one took me a minute. The second one made me think "your thirties won" which made me wonder if it was a 40th birthday cake. Who knows about the last one. What birthday is celebrated with a garlic clove on wheels?
Bahhhh! Maybe the cake decorator meant to spell Thirteen but just had a wicked bad speech impediment! So funny. Love the site, keep the laughs coming!
www.justchowbella.com
I thought twentieth too.
"your thirtee won,"
Why the comma? Well, it was a phone order and the customer obviously figured the decorator knew how to spell, but they wanted to be sure that an ! be placed at the end. Illiterate decorator not only didn't know how to spell, but also was completely unfamiliar with basic punctuation and thought a comma was an exclamation point! [rolls eyes]
Question? Why wouldn't a bakery have a list posted of basic words like congratulations and graduate and give instructions to NEVER write out number names, just stick with the numbers?
"Half Way 230" will always be 25 in our family... after celebrating my husband's 25th birthday with a few too many drinks at the premium cinema, I said to him, "Wow, 25! You're half way to 30!" He gave me a funny look and said, "don't you mean 50?" Me, "Umm... no - 25 is half way between 20 and 30!" He'll be turning half way to 40 this friday. :)
I agree that the "tweeteenth" might actually be what the caller wanted, assuming that their daughter was very excited to be a TEENager and didn't want to wait until she turned thirTEEN, so they came up with some weird name for twelve using "teen."
But....probably not. :)
Holy crap. That middle one makes me feel stabby.
On the third cake, maybe all that yellow in a round shape put 'Tweety' into the mind of the 'artist'. Thus, we have 'tweeteith' or however they misspelled it. :)
Taylor (My Older Brothers) @ 9:34. Your comment literally made me laugh out loud!!! This post is hilarious,
(hehehehe)
@Jess
I think you're onto something here. Maybe it was in honor of the world's oldest person.
But does anyone else think the title of "World's Oldest Person" is kinda cursed?
The current title-holder is always in the news because they died.
Who would give a 150 year old a gray cake anyway?
WV: flortee - actually, I'm flortee flor!
I can't believe that an adult who has a job can be that dumb. These always amaze me.
I want to be tweeteenth!! it sounds more fun than 49.
Never thought I'd actually be an advocate for those number candles, but these cakes put up a good argument. However, not sure what digits you'd need for tweeteenth. I think that's the number that comes between elevendy-twelve and a gazillion............
Classics!!! You are going to have to add another chapter to your book!
Day off? No way! Keep 'em comin! So much fun!
Ahh, I remember being Tweeteen,
(1) "Half Way 230"? {Made by someone who's ALL the way to STUPID?}
(2) "your thirtee won,"? {And my SENSIBILITIES have LOST!}
(3) Assuming that "Alicia" isn't actually a teenage parakeet...
Uuhhh...
Fu...
get it. FugGET it.
I don't know how old Alicia is, either; I just hope that she's young enough not to be revolted by that Cinderella-style *coach* wannabe. Which just happens to be pretty darn...well...unlovely.
Anything over... oh... say, 5 years old~~yeah, fugGET IT.
Oh, and Melinda @ 11:02:
In-NEON punctuation errors??!!
I hate that! It's truly despicable!
I say the offenders should be electrocuted with their own stupid signs!
=^@@^=
I'm actually thinking Alicia's "Tweeteenth" is supposed to be "Thirteenth" or even "Sweet Tenth".
:p But that's just me and my crazy brain.
Maybe the first one is a diet celebration cake for someone who used to weigh 420. Yeah, a diet celebration cake makes total sense. ;)
Lize
Well I just think Alicia is in denial all together! And her family and local bakery are obviously supporting her delusion. Yet, I have to wonder why the ugly pink border stops halfway around the cake. I mean, REALLY? The girl is in denial about whatever her freakin' age is and you can't even give her a little support? Is a full, ugly pink border too much to ask?!!!!! Ugh.... at least it's a birthday, so there can be margaritas. Thank goodness, because my head hurts!
One of my biggest pet peeves working at a bakery was mis-spellings, and the decorators doing stupid interpretations on cakes (or order forms for that matter). I don't know how many times I caught a bad one and had to call the customer to check what they wanted so that we could avoid cakes like this!! I know we missed some too :-(
Half way 230, so the other half of y'all better catch up and eat more cake so we will all way 230 and win The Biggust Miss Spellars contest.
anneinchicago:
I think the third cake is supposed to say Sweet Sixteenth.
Say it as if you have a lisp.
Tweeteenth??? LMAO!
Vickie! Aunt Mary Maria Blythe, the visitor who stayed what? a couple of years? And who was a miserable old boot in the bargain! Love that someone else remembers her!
wv: ainat. "Mary Maria was no joy to live with."
"Ainat the truth."
The coach on the last cake is actually nice. But how disengaged from what you are doing do you have to be to patiently pipe out the message on the second cake and never catch a clue?
Word Verification: poksnize. To painstakingly do a good job of exactly the wrong thing.
I have no idea what my "thirtee" is, but I'm glad it didn't lose!
Thanks for the laughs.. I really needed that! That second one was great.
Oh how I wish I were tweetween again.
Wasn't there a song about that?
She is 20- "Twentieth"!
The first cake is a wreck, but not how you think. Clearly the person ordering the cake is getting it for her WeightWatchers class, celebrating the fact that of the class, "Half Weigh 230". So, you know, progress!
I honestly read the second one as "you thirsty wurm" and assumed it was a fanfic tribute to Frank Hubert and his Dune series.
After all, the swirling frosting could be those barren sandhills of Dune.
Yes, they could! (Except maybe slightly more moist and involving sugar.)
Ah, I REALLY needed that laugh today! Thank you, Mr. Comma!
*starts singing* "She was only twenty-seventeen! She was a something-something beauty queen! She's a brain, brain, brain sister!"
I still haven't got the first one (I'm french : it's already a hard job for me to understand "real" english, so mispelled english is even harder !) But really, when I want a good laughing break, I'm coming on your blog... My favorite posts are on baby shower cake's : so incredible !
Given the girlishness of the image, I'm pretty sure tweeteen is twelve--twe (twelve) and teen because by golly she's a teen even if she is 12.
-a grandmother of 4 girls, aged twee-teen to 6.
The white one with the pink icing--I read that as "your thirties won" (though mispelled of course as thirtees). Like, the entire decade you've been thirty has won?
I think its meant to say "Twenteen." As in... you're 20 but want to be a teenager still.
"your thirtee won"--I'm 40 in a few months, my thirties DEFINITELY won--because every time I look in the mirror, I see that clearly, I -lost-!!
"tweeteenth"--"you're a teenager, and this Cinderella-esque thing you're STILL on is just too twee to live with."
And as for lurking EEEEEEEEEeeevil commas....oh my, yes. Commas are stealthy little creatures, always creeping up and insinuating themselves where they don't belong--sometimes in place of a full-stop, but more often, stealing the rightful home of the noble semicolon. Do NOT get me started on those pretenders to the semicolonial throne!!
The last cake actually SHOULD have a comma! (Or is that part of the joke?)
Anyone else read the first one as "Half Way, 210"?
Yeah, ok, the comma - just killed me.
Alicia is obviously 4! They just really messed up the spelling of that one. It's ok, she can't read yet anyway.
I have just found your site and you are freakin' hilarious! I love the cakes and the commentary.
I almost peed my pants laughing at the smug comma remark. LOL! Thank you for the monday laughs. I am totally subscribing to your feed!
Heh heh heh... Number two looks like "You're thirty...wow."
I say the first cake means she's turning fifteen!! See, half way to (2) thirty! Which is fifteen, I'm pretty sure.
Guess what!!!!! I think that you,
Ahahahaha!! That was enjoyable,
I am annoying you intentionally,