Thursday
Feb252010
World's Worst Pictionary Players
February 25, 2010 Seriously - don't let any of these Wreckerators on your team.
On the one hand, I know this is probably supposed to be a car.On the other hand... are you frickin' kidding me?
You know that control panel on Darth Vader's chest plate - the thing with all the boxes and lights? Yeah, that. Well, imagine that mashed up with a guitar, only they're both made out of balloons. Or maybe jelly beans. Got it? Can you see it? Good.
Now, tell me...does the thing you're imagining...look something like this?
Yes? No?A-hah! Dang, I'm good.
Ok, here's where things get interesting: Go grab your friends/co-workers/family members, and see who can correctly identify these objects the fastest (if at all). Answers are at the bottom.
Ready?
And...
Go!
Time's up!
How'd you do? Here are your answers:
1) A hand mixer. Or possibly a hair dryer. But probably a hand mixer.
2) Ballet slippers
3) A helicopter
4) I have no idea. Really. Your guess is as good as mine. (Ugly little bugger, though, isn't it?)
Heather E., Anne D., Lisa O., Leah C., Tessa, & Jenny, if you're lucky enough to live near Austin, Texas, you simply MUST go to the That Takes The Cake show this weekend. Their theme this year is Science Fiction & Fantasy, people. I hear someone is making a gumpaste Zaphod Beeblebrox. I mean, come ON. Could that BE any cooler?
- Related Wreckage: Cue Cards, Please?
Reader Comments (341)
A helicopter?! Really?
A few people have said the fourth cake is the Mystery Machine... found this pic of a nice Mystery Machine cake. http://www.flickr.com/photos/31244108@N07/3446585585/
I dunno; that cookie cake 'guitar' looks to me like Zombie Pac-man crawling out of a bathroom stall (made of balloons?) with t.p. stuck where the sun don't shine. O.o
WV: gorit. Onomatopeia for vomiting a little in one's mouth. "Why is there a flaming spatula on a gray poo swirl?" *gorit*
4 is a bug, the black thing is the steering wheel.
My guesses to those crazy wrecks were 1. Either a hand dryer or a mixer, 2. A horribly disfigured piranha 3. Someone trying to claw their way out of a block of cement with a fork, and 4. Someone on an acid trip decorating a cake of unknown origins.
Where is your olympic spirit #3 is obviously that big stupid rick they shove out during curling... on the bumpiest ice rink ever.
I got the hand mixer; I thought the ballet slippers were a pink fish; the closest to a guess I came up with on the helicopter was that it was a backward Navy issued lollypop (the Navy is partial to grey); and the last one ... well I decided it must be a newly designed Toyota.
I WANT TO SEE ZAPHOD!
1. A hand mixer
2. Lips
3. A dinghy with an oar
4. a VW bug
Ballet slippers? Get out! If anything I suppose they could pass for effeminate leprechaun shoes?
#4 Has to be The Mystery Machine!
I thought number 3 was a flat volcano XD
A hand mixer! Awesome, I rock! Ballet slippers, cool, nothing can beat me! That's--!
...aw, crud.
Sheri said...
1)mixer or a hair dryer
2) bustier for Madonna
3) no idea really but it does look exactly like a metal detector now that someone else has mentioned it.
4)VW bug from the 60's.
I am kinda scared that I am beginning to understand CCC's!
for the last one, I was going to guess the scooby mobile...
Thanks for the info about the show in Austin--I'm totally going to that. It looks super cool!
I thought the first one was a mailbox. The second looks like the Barbie version of a tribal mask. The third looks like a graduation cap. The fourth could have something to do with being high..
I thought:
1. Cannon
2. Weird lips
3. A shovel on a pile of poo (to clean it up, naturally, though why anyone would want to celebrate such with a cake . . .)
4. Some kind of car (*what* kind, I have no idea)
I think 4)is a flower.
1) Hand mixer
2) Fish - though now I can sort of see the slippers. At least, I can see all the ribbons to tie them on with. In retrospect, the word "DANCE" should have been a clue...
3) Shovel and bucket, bird's eye view - like for making a sandcastle. Either that, or someone's trying to clean up poo from someone with serious liver or gall bladder disease. I still don't see the helicopter.
4) Road-kill turtle or psychadelic compost pile.
I think the last one is a police car in the rain. The black thing on the side is his spotlight and the black V shape is a windshield wiper. His town is on a budget and could only afford one wiper.
I got the first two, but I definitely thought the third was a turntable! Like for sure. Still can't see the helicopter.
I got the hand mixer, but I guessed Butterfly, Snail, & Gay Raccoon with yellow shades for the other ones.
I think the last one looks like a Cinderella carriage? Maybe?
come on 4 is obviously a shag-waggon.
#4 is definitely a turtle. Can't you tell that the black cupcakes are a head and 2 legs?
That's my guess anyway...
Reading everyone's guesses is as entertaining as this post! I guess getting the hand mixer right wasn't much of an accomplishment. My other guesses:
2. Sideways tulip head (although I'm glad to see pink football came to other peoples' minds as well).
3. I got banjo (you have to want to see it). Curling rock was my favourite guess on that one.
4. I saw the Magic School Bus, which I guess shows my age difference from all the 'Mystery Machine' guesses, haha.
The red part of the guitar looks like Mojojojo's head to me. >.>
1. Sewing machine
2. Lips
3. The moon
4. car?
-Julie
After reading all the comments, I went back to see if they helped identify these wrecks. Not so much. I thought #1 was a mixer, but I'm less sure now - maybe Jodee or Ian will let us know (did they graduate from barber school or cooking school). #2 looks like anything but ballet shoes - I thought pink football but now will go with Ms. Pacman. #3 I thought was an oar on gray icing, and I don't see helicopter. Put in a call to Whole Foods which I realized wrecked this only when I enlarged the photo. #4 I'm sure is a vehicle. Go back and enlarge it, close one eye, and squint with the other. It's a hippy ambulance with a light on top. Tricia
I'm gonna go with #4 being...an owl.
Face only of course.
That first wreck... It's not a car... It's a metastasizing tumor on wheels... O_O
I guessed: 1.) a mixer thing! Yessssssss
2.) A heart
3.) a very disproportionate baseball bat and ball
4.) I forget... haha
seriously, though, I am soooooooooooo not seeing the helicopter.
My mom says that the last one is a psychedelic police punch buggy.
I *think* the fourth one is what the Mystery machine looks like when Shaggy sees it coming straight towards him after one too many "Scooby Snax"..... Since we all know that Scooby Snax have some very interesting, illegal probably even in Amsterdam type ingredients....
I got the helicopter!!!
didnt do so well on the others
obviously the "helicopter" is actually a curling stone. DUH! Olympics-theme-week. At least, it looks FAR more like a curling stone than a helicopter. wha?
Okay, slightly out of order here, but my guesses were :
1)statue to the electric egg beater
2)pair of lips after the dog gets at it
4)Hippie-mobile
But the third one actually isn't a wreck, ya know ;p . It is an illustration of what it would be like to be up s**t creek WITH a paddle!
The last one is a pixelated nude Marge Simpson on a flowery sofa on wheels.
Thought I would revisit these wrecks with a clear head this morning. If you enlarge the mixer/hair dryer cake and read the computer's name for it, you will find that it is for a bridal shower. Yeah. That clears it up. Tricia
1) a hand mixer, but why is it covered in poop brown polka dots? batter doesn't splatter so evenly... those beaters are sad, too.
2)I have no idea. a pink finless fish? or a girlie football that someone took a bite out of? i don't see ballet slippers AT ALL. good thing they wrote "Dance"--like that will help. I didn't even notice until you gave the answer.
3) is SO not a helicopter! it's a gray "white picnic cake." my guess is that the swirly gray icing is water (supposed to be blue) and the round thing is a raft and the red thing is an oar, for a whitewater rafting enthusiast. or someone who just lost their boat. I'm not feeling too creative to figure out the rest of the possibilities today.
4) with the swirly colors and flowers--is Scooby Doo's Magic Mystery Machine. obviously.
btw, nice taxi. love how lumpy it is and how the wheels are in the CENTER of the car. how does it balance?
wv: fliess--what these cakes need to be PERFECT.
No way... #2 is DEFINITELY the Audrey II!
A helicopter? Wow. I got m-a-y-b-e a sand shovel & pail...and that's ONLY because the label says "picnic cake" on it. lol Those are some real wrecks today! hehe
1. hand mixer
2. corset
3. my hubby says it looks like poop creek, but WITH a paddle - lol
4. we really do need random drug testing for bakery workers...
Here's a whole BUNCH of great Mystery Machine cakes-- and I want one!
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mystery%20machine%20cake&w=all
A gray poo-copter? Was that necessary? :) --Samantha
I guessed: 1) hand mixer/egg beater/etc, 2) a fish, 3) a curling stone, and 4) a sheep - perhaps a hippie sheep, or a graffiti sheep. Eh.
OK, the first one was easy, just never seen a polka dotted hand mixer before. The second one I got cause I tilted my head and could read the word dance on the board. Not exactly sure HOW you get helicopter from #3 as I thought it was possibly a frying pan with a spatula or a banjo. My best guess on #4 is some sort of hippy-ized turtle?
wait, is that a helicopter landing on a raft in the ocean? with propellers spinning so fast we can't see them? or are we looking UNDER the helicopter and that swirly circle is the propellers and the swirly gray stuff is the sky. huh.
oh, and that guitar is most definitely inspired by Dr. Seuss with those colors and curves
why is there a blue cupcake on top of the mystery machine? did they upgrade an ambulance or something? is that a siren or light?
and that mixer cake,er, cookie cake? (those look like vanilla wafers stuck on it. wtf?) what are we wishing them luck for? baking a cake? taking a pastry class? entering a baking competition (which the baker wouldn't qualify for)? hosting a bake sale?
what a pg-rated 1950's design if that's intended for a wedding. or a weeding.a mixer? at least make it a kitchenaid. lingerie for some, phallic symbols for others. but NO. old-fashioned kitchen tools to remind the poor girl of her expected culinary servitude.
they should have used an old fashioned hand-crank egg beater! (which could not be mistaken for an elephant with the pox)