Friday
Jun112010
We Learned Good!
June 11, 2010 Today, we be having's a celebiation of learnir!
(Note: typing that last sentence was actually painful. See what I go through for you?)
Did anyone check with the Sumerians first?Maybe they're not happy, is all I'm saying.
Wreckerators, can we misspell a three letter word?
YES, WE CAN!
[rubbing temples] Oh, my head... Maybe we should take a break from these wrecked misspellings and look at some wrecked designs instead.
"Gradution Dayn"?Dang it, they're everywhere!
(I wonder if Amy noticed.)
We should also talk about those long tube thingies, though. I mean, what are they? Garden hoses? Elephant noses? Flagella?
(You must admit: flagella was a pretty good guess.)
[head tilt]Hmm...
Ok.
I see a cow...with a beaver tail...and a gunshot wound.
You?
I have two things to say about these graduation cookies:
1) This is definitely the most unfortunate alternate spelling/icing color combo I have ever seen.
2) Using "text speak" to celebrate an educational accomplishment is like celebrating your SCUBA certification by drowning puppies. STOP IT.
Brooke B. & Amy F., Sarah M., Margo H., Lin C., Nastacia I., & Holly I., Njoy UR sumers!
Reader Comments (152)
That icing and spelling combo is unfortunate indeed. :D
Oh. My. Gosh. These are AWESOME. As is your writing, as per usual. I'm having a crappy, stressful day at 9:40 am already. Thanks for a much needed lift to my day.
May Ur DRMS Cum Tru!
On the "Dayn" cake, especially with the cupcakes bump outlines, all I can see are intestines! YUK!!
Please tell me those are mini-donuts (just the CCC gone rogue)! Pleeeeaaase tell me there isn't a baker in the world who feels that is a satisfactory cake shape! If not... if not... then... ALL IS LOST! *on that note, goes back to enjoy "Lost" wrecks*
I'm pretty conviced that number 4 is tape worms. Eww.
I think those long things are some kind of curly diploma ... although that begs the question of why there are little paper diplomas on top of them
Don't make fun of the cookies. They are the traditional celebratory pastry of the Stackapoo tribe, of which I am a member.
That cookie cake almost works if it is for an obedience school class and that's a dog on a red leash - that mysteriously comes out of the center of his body.
But I have no words that can possibly justify that last one!
Wow. Unfortunate is an understatement.
So, erm, I don't know if this makes me old, or mildly prudish, or entirely out of touch (or possibly all of the above), but is 'cum' *really* a commonly used text abbreviation for 'come'? Or is that just wreckerator humor/brain deadedness?
My husband and I are fanatics about using proper spelling and punctuation in our texts, which I guess makes me old. Still in my twenties, and already I'm no longer hip with the lingo.
I almost spewed my coffee on the eclairs or whatever they are. OMG, that icing with that spelling! That's the only one I'm not sending to school with my husband (he teaches gifted 5th graders); they LOVE cake wrecks... it makes 'em feel even smarter.
Oh, oh, oh.
Celebiation of learnir, indeed.
You have outdone yourself today, Jen.
I think "flagella" is the plural of "flagellum."
Actually, I can't decide whether that CCC is meant to be two segmented worms, or two intestinal sections.
"Happy Sumer!" must have been for someone's Bon Voyage party upon leaving for Sumer (modern Iraq). All the other strange stuff on that cake is a not-very-successful attempt at cuneiform writing.
"You dit it!" is a clever pun celebrating someone's mastery of Morse code, which, when spoken is expressed as "dits" and "dahs," as in "dit dit dit, dah dah dah, dit dit dit," which means, "Send help."
Class of 2010? Yep, cow with a beaver tail and a gunshot wound it is.
As for "MAY YR DRMS CUM TRU GRAD'IO" ... words fail me, as they obviously did that wreckorator.
That last one is great. "Using text-speak to celebrate an educational accomplishment is like celebrating your SCUBA certification by drowning puppies" has to be the best one-liner ever. I love it. I also would note that ur is typical text-speak for your, yr is short for year.
"Using 'text speak' to celebrate an educational accomplishment is like
celebrating your SCUBA certification by drowning puppies. STOP IT." Best. Quote. Ever. I was going to type "Evah", but that didn't seem prudent.
Can't....breathe....laughin..ing...too...hard....
Gary,
I prefer flagellumses.
(It sounds better if you say it like Gollum)
john
That first one's from another country, right? Right??
I don't know if I have ever laughed out loud as much as I did with this one. Yes, I too, saw a cow with a beaver tail and a gunshot wound :-p
Celebiation of learnir?
oh deer mee
)"thinkk eye ewesd: two 'teech thatt partikulur bakur;(
*tears in my eyes*
~~Di
Your text speak comparison to SCUBA and drowning puppies was just awesome. Thanks for the smile this morning!
You probably didn't know, but the "class of 2010 cow with beaver tail" is actually a Woodland style Indian depiction of the life essence of a bear coming out to enliven the world. Like this: http://www.kinsmanrobinson.com/dynamic/images/display/Norval_Morrisseau_Fish_And_Bear_Harmon_876_399.jpg
See the resemblance?
Though I'm sure the idea was "cap and tassel", that sure looks like a black bear ... with a gunshot wound.
wv: mescon
Mescon fused.
No wonder we are in trouble..
They're diplomas, from herpetology school.
:)
I remember when I got my graduation tape worm. Ah, those were the days!
Didn't like the drowning puppies mention.
Other than that, hilarious.
Fully managed to keep coffee in mouth until heard from Doug of the Stackapoo tribe. Now need screen wipes.
WV: "liablit"
If you graduated despite these spelling deficiencies, I guess your teachers had to liablit.
Bwahahaha! Beaver-tailed cows with gunshot wounds. To be perfectly honest, I saw some sort of medical-style diagram at first-- "So instert probe along this path until it reaches the ideal target location, indicated here with a red dot". Not much better...
OH MY Jen!!! that last comment ALMOST got coffee spewed all over my monitor! (it got on the keyboard way cheaper to replace) thanks for the laugh
>^_^<
RE: CW4: I am reminded of the famous "fireman" cake. At least "Congratulations" was spelled correctly.
CW5: I'm thinking the recipient graduated from Ag College?
Re: CW6: ooh, sexual and offensive. Yikes.
That poor mutant cow is getting a surgical instrument inserted wwwaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy up it's -- um -- yeah. Ick
Great captions, as always!
Textspeak is a symbol of the degradation of the English language. It makes me sad.
Cakes with textspeak are somehow even worse.
Love your blog!
To any member of the Stackapoo tribe: are those really chocolate covered NutterButters? 'Cause that ratchets the "Awesomely Bad" factor up to an 11.
wv: wardin The person who runs the the jail for wreckerators who can't spell.
Flagella! Hah. That has to be the most random guess you've ever made about a cake! (and thus, my favourite! Love it!)
The text speak makes my head and heart hurt just a little bit.
My mother actually used to teach a communications class. I'd occasionally help her grade tests when she had bigger classes. I told her I quit and I "fired" her when she let someone slide who answered a freeform question in text speak.
Those aren't diplomas on the worms, those are the mouth pieces for a hookah. Y'know, a little weeding and lighting ...
Which would help explain these wrecks.
I have GOT to stop looking at this while I'm at work - it's seriously all I can do not to laugh out loud!!!
LMAO. Oh my. My thought was worms. Graduation worms. Which makes perfect sense, of course.
And there are simply no words needed for the "cum" cookies. Especially given the icing used for the text.
Wow.
Yep. That's definitely a cow up there.
Using "text speak" to celebrate an educational accomplishment is like celebrating your SCUBA certification by drowning puppies. STOP IT.
BEST LIVE EVER!
"I see a cow...with a beaver tail...and a gunshot wound."
LMAO That's hilarious! and I totally see it! I love Rorschach icing blots.
Meanwhile, maybe Amy is graduating from snake charming school.
are those kidney bean things cookies or conjoined cupcakes?? I thought I saw the edge of a wrapper on the top one...And not to state the obvious, but isn't "cum" a vulgar spelling? Just what are those letters iced with? *GAG* Drms = dreams? are these wet dreams? what kind of dreams are we wishing for this grad to come true? (or is it brad? or bradio? is this really a graduation?) It would be really suggestive if the You Dit It cake "came" after
YR + your? year? yer? text abbreviations should NOT be allowed. Especially since I think your = UR anyway!
wv: seikk This post made me seikk!
HOW do you misspell THREE LETTER WORDS? Wheare are these idiots coming form? er, from? ;P
they dit it again to-dayn
Actually, I think the last picture is more accurate than at first glance. A lot of grads probably hope their dreams "cum" true. And dream of it often.
so i guess for that last disaster, perhaps it is a puberty cake? seriuosly "cum" on a cake with goopy white icing.
i also love the scuba reference.
at least these keep me edumacated..need to go look up what flagella means.
fun and educational...well done
vw:plazed "these wreckorators need to be plazed back in elementary spelling class.
I saw a Scottie dog, but beaver-tailed bleeding bovine does seem to be more accurate.
I think the 'tubes' look more like sections of intestine. Scrumptious.
Upon first glance I didn't see the cap, only the front half of a cow, too! And I guess beaver tail is a good way of describing it. I laughed at the gunshot wound part. Hopefully that wreck of a cow is in a better place now.
As for the cookies.... uh.... *insert something witty and dry/disgusted here*
I believe that the intestines/tape worms are really BOOKWORMS, since I guess you must be a bookworm to be graduating. Still, they are the creepiest bookworms that I have ever seen.
definitely a cow!
and I recall seeing something like those long noodly things in my anatomy text a long time ago... just one of the reasons that I chose to NOT go into health care.
Is it "We Learned Good!" or is it "We Learnt Well!"?