Saturday
Dec242011
Why They Spell It "Xmas"
December 24, 2011 Like a crazed shopper hurtling towards the last Star Wars Lego kit, Christmas is nearly upon us. So, for those of you celebrating tomorrow, allow me and John and Number 1 and Wrecky Minion Julianne to serenade you with a little seasonal ditty:
We wish you a...
;)
We wish you a...
;)
We WISH you a...
;)
Er...no...hang on.
;)
No...
;)
Getting closer...
;)
THAT's it.
And, because:
;)
We also have to give a very special birthday shout-out:
;)
Also known as:
;)
And for those of you celebrating other special days this month, allow us to simply say:
;)
And may you all have a blissfully wreck-less holly daze!
Thanks to Paitence L., Susan L., Sarah O., Pamela V., Matthew P., Janice R., Chris G., Nicole K., Melissa P., & Lyne S. for helping us spell that out.
Reader Comments (44)
The Santa on the first cake looks like the comic Maxine!
Merry Christmax everyone! And remember, Until Us A Child is Born!
Happy Birthday
Juses! er,Jesue! er...Wreck-less? Does that mean there will be no Christmas edition of Sundays sweets?
That first Chritmas cake has everything: Fluffy green stelagmites, a strawberry forest, Sarah Juanita roses, Santy Gnomes. It's that thing when garden gnomes have no hands, but they're full of Christmas spirit anyway...
Happy Christmahannakwanzica to all!
And a Mary Xmas to you too! What a shame on Wreck #2, it's a very pretty cake with lovely penmanship, they just tried a little TOO hard and put in that extra i. But that first one, holy moley! What on earth were they going for there? Looks like Santa sinking into an springtime tar pit.
Just literally stumbled onto your site (thumb's up), but man are these cakes hilarious! I'll give the Happy Hollyday cake at the end the benefit of the doubt, but some of these are just horrendous, even without the misspellings. Too bad there's no spell check for frosting...
I do believe Cake Five is the aurora borealis! But perhaps by a color-blind decorator? I've never seen the look like that before!
Mery Christmas!
By the time I got through I couldn't even remember how to spell Christmas any more. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!
@SuBee
A very Stefon Christmas to you!
too funny and thanks for posting my other santa ninja cake in your last post its cake #2!!
P.S. that cake was from costco! i started laughing like crazy but couldn't think of a funny caption i knew you could!!
P.P.S Merry
critmas!Sorry what i meant was Merrychristimas! DARN IT! happyhollydayser.. uhhh.... Merry Xmas!These cakes make me feel better about the way my kids spell!
It's a busy time of year, lots of preparations going on, but in the midst of it I'd like to take a minute to send some warm Christmas wishes to the Cake Wrecks team and to all you wild, weird, wacky fellow-commenters. Every day you gift me with laughter; thank you!
That last cake looks like "Holiday" was spelled correctly and and then the "i" was wiped out and an "l" and a "y" were squeezed in. So they "corrected" to a mistake!
Cake #1: So how come I'm the only one who sees a pink Santa dressed in nothing but boots and heart shaped pasties? Am I a complete perv? (Thank goodness for Santa's tummy apron)
I can't be the only one out there who is concerned that the "Santa" in cake #1 has no arms and is wearing pasties.
For the last one, it is possible that it's not a mistake. I've seen a lot of "cutesy" holiday stuff that will say "Happy Holly-days" with the requisite heaps of holly berries all around.
That said, it still looks fairly disastrous.
Hysterical! Cake #5 looks like it got a container of rainbow sherbet melted on it.
Well, so much for holiday leave for DOC...
#1 Really does have it all: cole slaw, artichoke heart, suspiciously shiny strawberries, goth 'Santa' and enough black frosting to ensure screams of terror from the bathroom (when brushing teeth). And the spelling thing. They did a passable job on the daisies, though.
#2 Apple's iCake didn't do well in marketing tests and was shelved.
#3 Clever wreckerator (bet you never put those words together before) -- that's one way to slip past a ban.
#4 [Customer, glancing pointedly at cake:] "Uh, excuse me -- do you know where I can find the 't'?" [Wreckerator, as irony goes blissfully unnoticed]: "Sure, it's on aisle 5."
#5 I'll give the wreckerator points for trying. But I wouldn't put the giant correction ribbon away just yet, and that frosting looks suspiciously like a gel. I wouldn't worry about it being confiscated, though.
#6 There are girls who are named this. Whether to get out in front of the inevitable jokes that key on the last name or to provoke same is a tough call.
#7 Somebody had to go and create a cake-writing app for 'smart' phones. If only they had bypassed autocorrection...
#8 Oy.
#9 looks like it was written by a committee. The 'name guy' didn't do his research as carefully as he might have.
#10 They were trying to avoid a visit from DOC, and wound up ensuring one. Mwahahahaha.
Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thank you for my daily giggles!
Is it me or does the Santa on cake #1 appear to be sporting pasties? Lol!
Wow, that just makes me sad.
On the first cake - can't figure out whether Santa has breastusses, or is wearing some kind of mutant octopus body, but.... [shuddering] Word to wreckerator - drawing a belt onto something that's vaguely colored pink or red does not a Santa suit make. And throwing on yellow roses (wtf?) and strawberries just because you have 'em lying around isn't helping.
Happy birthday Juses... Joshua... Jesper... whatever your name is! And to the rest of the Cake Wrecks fan family, Happy Holly Daze.
Merry Christmas Cake Wrecks crew! Thanks for all the laughs!
The first cake frightens and confuses me: why are breasts, yellow flowers and strawberries wishing me a Merry Chritmas? What do breasts care about christmas?
Um, no snarky comments are coming to mind that meet the wreckiness of these cakes. Seriously? I mean, it's not like this holiday doesn't come around EVERY YEAR! People should be able to learn how to spell. Yikes.
Thanks for the laughs! Merry Christmas Jen, John, and all the wrecky henchpersons you have helping you.
Marry Chistmas ;)
Letitia, mine do!
As they should, I suppose, Dana :-)
Mary Chritmas and Happy Hollydays to all of you!
Why spell Christmas with an 'X'? It's just laziness, I guess. It may simple or it may be complex, but why spell Christmas with an 'X'?
We made two Happy Birthday Jesus cakes today.
Cake #9: That is actually pretty close to the origional Jewish spelling of his name. Yeshua weird what you pick up online.
Yep, Santa is nude except for his thong and pasties, is sinking into the La Brea tar pit, and has no arms unless they are already submerged. That's super festive! (yikes.)
This post gave me a headache and I'm going to lie down now. (sigh)
Under Neat That
Peace to you and yours. Until further notice, celebrate everything!
(Group hug)
The last one is perfect for my daughter. Born on Christmas, and named Holly. And she wasn't due for three weeks, and her name was picked out years before conception!
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"Happy Birthday Juses" Oh yeah, this will keep me laughing all through the holidays
Laura, Christmas is sometimes spelled with an X because many of the original Gospels were written in Greek, and the first letter of "Christ" in Greek is the letter chi, which is written as an X. So it's an abbreviation which has been around since the beginning, pretty well.
I shudder to think what would happen if we were to introduce Stripper Santa to Bedroom Santa & Rudolph.
The demon Santa, Alien-Pod Strawberries, random pointless yellow roses, triffids, and black frosting on that first one combine to make it an EPIC, EPIC, E P I C WIN.
How do you become a Cake Wrecks writer? No, seriously. HOWWWWWWW???!?!?!!!?!?!!
A thought,
Stripper Santa puts the XXX in X-Mas.
*runs away to hide*
Now if they had botched up Chanukah, or Hanukkah or Chanukkah, or Chanuka.....
AFAIK the spelling of Christmas (aside from the abbreviated Xmas) is not disputed, nor is Yule..nor Kwaanza.
Happy quinoa?
Maybe the decorator of wreck #1 is a gamer? Critmas is a D&D term........
Accidentally found this site & I MUST say, how I absolutely love it! Both my 13 yr old daughter & I were laughing with tears at some of your posts. It's also given me a new appreciation for "cake art",.. if that's the right title. :)