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Oct282011
We Sorry, You Are Living
October 28, 2011 
And because we've seen your haircut, you will be Miss.
P.S. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Sorry, Dannielle L., but I must be living.
October 28, 2011 
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I never liked Shane anyway.
Love the commentary on this one lol
I enjoyed this way too much.
Toronto in 4 days!!!
To wreck just one line from the Beatles, the strawberry feels it's clever.
Twofers for the price of one.
Great now i'm going to be looking at engrish sites all day. With the fire extinguishers labeled as hand grenades, the signs warning me to beware of missing feet and directing me to the 'feman's washroom and all that.
Cake for a patient who attempted suicide and is now departing the psych ward? With wishes like that, he'll be back soon. Real picker-upper, there!
This is so sad.....I hope at least that the strawberries tasted good.
It was a pleasure seeing you both last night in Boston (Brookline). Thanks for the laughs and best of luck and good health for the balance of your tour!
Fantastic!! Reminds me of the signboard at the local Chinese restaurant: "WE OPEN".
Poor Shane. He went in for some "manscaping" and ended up a miss. At least he'll live. Hoping to avoid a lawsuit, the salon opted for the traditional apology cake.
is this a sorry you survived your surgery/accident/murder attempt cake???
what kind of events do people celebrate these days! here's a miss--cherry sauce to look like blood....
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Zombie cakes.
I wonder if there are any bakeries that hire people with that exceedingly rare combination of piping skills and fluency in the native tongue. My guess is no, which is awesome. More giggles for us!
My husband's work is doing a potluck today for someone leaving the company. I can just hear this: "Shane's last day of work is on Friday. We should get a cake." "Oh! I'll order it. I know this great Chinese bakery. The cake is fabulous!" I want a cake with whipped cream frosting and chocolate shavings, now.
Love the P.S. It's a frequently referenced quote in our house.
Good timing for Halloween.
Wait. What? Maybe I don't have enough coffee in me, but I have no idea what this cake is even supposed to say. It sounds like the alligators in Pearls Before Swine.
I'm guessing that should've said we are sorry you are leaving... but it's SO much funnier this way and in time for Halloween too. @ Fluffy Cow, I was also thinking of Zombies. Perhaps some "Shane" of the Dead?
English as a second language. Please let that be the reason for this. Please, I can't bear any other excuse.
WTF was it trying to say?!?!?!?! I can't even imsgine D:
I hope Shane got a laugh out of it.
An anonymous commenter wrote:
"is this a sorry you survived your surgery/accident/murder attempt cake???"
Ooh, this gives me a great idea for a novel/short story! Someone delivers this cake (or a similar one) to an intended victim, only instead of "you will be miss", it says "we missed", or "next time, we won't miss"
Hmmmm.... the possibilities... need to work out a few more details...
"You will be miss." Miss what? Congeniality??
Perhaps Ego Leonard was the wreckorator?
Zombie cake for someone who has just discovered he's alive.
Comb beck, Shane!
Is this how they break good news in hospitals now? He pulled through the anaesthetic AND the sex change was a success!
oooohhhh, zoomom!! your best yet!!
this cannot be a zombie cake, btw. no body parts. just sayin'.
what has two heads & three arms? no, not Zaphod, but a happy zombie!!
Poor Shane... Does this mean he is now Shanita?
It's not only the baker's fault. Don't forget the receptionist who wrote it out this way. Although, yeah, it is super sad that the piper never questioned it. Do you get fired if you call the client to ask "is it really supposed to say this"?
ha ha! That is so excellent!
All your base! This is why I love your blog!
This was so perfect for me today :) I homeschool and my 9 year old son has been giving me a hard time about practicing spelling words etc...no matter what I tell him he thinks having words just a little off wont matter later in life. Well, I LOL at this one and he came running, read the cake, realized the mistake on his own and said 'I'm glad that wasnt me that made that mistake!' We laughed about it and I think it may have clicked in. Thanks for a good laugh!
I am guessing they were supposed to put You are MOVING. You will be missed.
Giggling outloud in the cafe
Words me fail.
Meh, "leaving" is to "living" as "fatherhood" is to "faulker satherhood"
I bet this was supposed to be for SHAUN.
Now it all makes sense, right?
Just in time for Hallowe'en, a refresher course in "All your _____ are belong to us". Infinite silliness possibilities. Er, Shane, you are loving, come here and
we will mist you.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
I work with international students so I can hear the accent that would go with the reading of the cake :-)
ALL YOUR BASE
Okay, so the "All your base are belong to us" must be from something, but other than remembering this line from an old "Foxtrot" comic strip I must admit that I don't know what. Please enlighten me.
It sucks that you are alive. Oh, and also, you look like a girl.
All your base is from Portal; love this cake!
I was going to say 'one of these strawberries is poison' until I realized that the comma in this specimen changes things ever so slightly.
"We sorry, you are living" could, despite the missing contraction, be an apology in the category 'reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.'
Alas, all of this does not explain the second line. Maybe one of the strawberries contains a potentially-fatal dose of female hormones. [ducks and runs]
Lol! I have a brother in law named Shane. Hmm should I show this to him or not? Lol poor Shane. Is this person in a coma, why are we sorry he's living?? Mean wreckerators.
@ Rikki and CJ
ALL YOUR BASE is actually a lot older than that.
Wikipedia: "The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from Japanese."
There are many more memorable quotes but that is the most used one. The whole game was poorly translated.
P.S. More geek cakes!!!!!
"All your base" is not from Portal. These should help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us
As has been mentioned, "All your base..." came from a poorly done translation from Japanese. This likely comes from a Spanish-speaking coworker who is going to when he leaves. The cake looks delicious. The English... could use some work.