Monday
Mar142011
The WHAT of the Irish?
March 14, 2011 St. Patrick's Day is coming, and you know what that means, right?
Yeah, well, neither do these wreckerators."Ok, team, time to show our Irish spirit!
"Now, quick, make a bunch of dead leprechauns!"
I like it.
"Now the Geico Cavemen!"
Balancing eight apples on your head: so easy, a wreckerator can do it.
"Now the banana split!!"
Uh, boss? Don't you think these designs are getting a little str...
"NOW THE WHEELED SHAMROCK PIGGY OF DOOM! OF DOOOOM, I SAY!
AHAHAHAHAAA!!"
Um.
So.
You guys enjoy your St. Patrick's day, hear?
Thanks to wreckporters Mimi C., Lisa P., April A., Sara F., & Melissa B., who don't think the Irish seem quite so lucky anymore.
You're welcome.
Update from john: Some of you have sweetly pointed out ("...and you call yourself a geek?!?") that today is Pi Day. Sadly, we have nearly 14,000 cakes in our archives but very few explore the mathematical joy that is "Pi." However, that's not to say we don't have any Pi Wrecks:
You're welcome. 
Reader Comments (142)
After staring at the last picture for a few seconds, i had a lightbulb moment and my "HA!" scared the cat right off the couch. Love it when that happens.
*snicker* He said, "Pi Wrecks"! GOAL!!!
Sooo that pig is really for frosting your own cake with these convenient blobs of frosting, right?!?!
I'd already had my fix this morning, but I just somehow knew I needed to check back in to CW! Thanks for the snappy Pi Wreck addition John. You rock!
I love the pyrex = pi wrecks.Thank you for that laugh!
KP
I made a chocolate cream pie with PI on top of it once, for a book club meeting about the Life of Pi, but I didn't get a picture of it. :(
That last one. Uh, Piglet with a third (green) nipple? I dunno.
Love your Pi Wrecks!!
Pyrex... ROTFLMAO. Seriously. I fell out of my chair. Not sure if it was that good a pun, or I just desperately needed a good laugh. Either way - thanks!
My favorite thing about the pi wreck is that at first glance, John appears to be offering up a few Vienna sausages, which after a moment do look like fingers, after all.
Thank you so much for that, John!!!
@ Oldish Lady and anyone else talking about the pig:
The pig is a good luck sign in German culture. It means prosperity and wealth, more so around new years though. Giving someone a little candy pig with a shamrock is wishing them good luck and much prosperity for the coming year. May your proverbial pig get fat and you remain secure.
Pi Wrecks...Pi Wrecks...OH, PYREX! Bwahahaha!!!
Thanks, I really needed that one today!!!
Hyena Overlord here. Can't remember my login.
The Yuck of the Irish is right!
wv: megato: The name of the new pig/leprechaun pokeman character unveiled in cookie form here on CW.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! Pi Wrecks!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! John, I love you, man.
You excavated a Pi Rex egg? What a great arcakeological find!
The leprechaun isn't dead--He's drunk!
uhm... so... a gingerbread pig with a giant, misshapen, gangrenous uhm.. "unit"? How is that Irish, exactly? Just wondering.
What? People actually expected PIE to show up on a cake blog?
That would be completely inappropriate!
Anon @ 1:46
I cook quite a bit, and I must say NONE of my Pyrex glass cookware is green or brown. My mom has some of the brown Pyrex though. I've seen blue and red Pyrex in the local stores in the baking supplies aisle.
And with that I am off to check on the chicken I am cooking for the chicken pie I plan to serve for supper.
wv:entic
The hilarious entics of the wreckerators never fail to make us laugh.
Oh goodness...it took me WAY too long to "get" that last joke. Aha ha ha. Good one.
Also, I am wearing this little necklace today for Pi/Pie Day. Made it a couple of years ago but I think it's fun!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=38207522&id=25506411
*groans loudly*
I had to say "Pi Wrecks" out loud to myself several times before I got that. And now I cannot stop laughing.
I think the cakes cracked me just a wee bit.
Or maybe I was cracked anyway. *lol*
#2...definitelt insulting...looks like a DRUNK Leprechaun to me...My oh my! LOL!
FYI - for anyone interested in ACTUAL pies for Pi Day - there is a baking contest running until Match 20 over here:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/03/enter-the-2011-pi-day-pie-baking-contest-serious-eats-instructables.html
I like the update of the pie wreck! LOVE you guys for keeping up on funny posts... even if some people don't get that it's a joke and take things WAY to seriously.
I teach online college classes and I had a student who said she learns about other cultures by watching movies, such as the fact that Ireland has Leper Cons! [I'll let that sink in a moment.]
Really? I'd like to see the film about Irish convicts afflicted with Hansen's disease, because I totally missed that one! Must have been an indy film. Maybe that's what the second cake is about. His fingers look kinda stubby and he was probably shot by prison guards while attempting to escape. Totally makes sense now!
Do Leper Cons use Pi Wrecks?
I hope this doesn't end up being an epcot comment, or triggering a facepalm (or an eyetwitch) because I missed the joke, but...
There's only 7 cupcakes on the "cavceman" cakes.
Thanks for the giggles. Much needed.
Can I just say I've never understood the green beer phenomenon for this holiday . Huh? GREEN beer?
Well, goes with these cakes.
Terrell
That green monstrosity up top is NOT a cake, it is a recurring monster in the closet type nightmare. Whoosh! -Mrs. R.
oh, you mean the irish aren't known for their banana cream pi...?
wv: appers. my favorite pie is appers - a la mode.
My daughter's birthday is St. Patricks Day, if her cake turns out anything like these, I'm going to jail for murder.
Thank you. *snorfle* Pyrex. Love it.
Merry from Annie's Book Stop/Sharon, MA
Your Pyrex joke made me laugh the most. Good work. :)
Okay, I totally missed the pi wrecks joke. I'm ashamed.
But the leprechauns wearing apples made me think of a favorite book of my children: "Apples, apples, up on top! We are so good we will not stop!"
Oh, and @Anon: I have a Pyrex dish exactly like that, as far as I can tell from the picture, and it is, indeed, Pyrex. I just checked.
Heee! We should celebrate Pi wrecks every year now! :)
Oh dear... I just laughed so hard I think a bit of wee came out...
Well, maybe not but you get the idea.
Hehe pi wrecks...
Snort...
Hehehehehe...
And anon- our Pyrex is brown too. Lol @ your wrongness!
Call me stupid, dense, whatever you want: I do NOT get the pi joke. Why is that picture so bad?
*groans at the Pi Wrecks*
(But good one!)
Every day I love you more and more. Pi-wrecks... genuis.
OH NO THEY DIDN'T!
:-)
Pyrex, PI Wrecks! Made my day!
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196
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Okay...I now have "The Pi of the Irish" (Eye of the Tiger) stuck in my head. Thanks for that.
Chocolatier:
PYREX is an oven-safe glassware made by Corning. It is pronounced like PI WRECKS, hence the joke. PI is the part of the equation to get the circumference of the circle: PI times the radius squared. PI equals 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651... and the fraction can be continued on infinitely. Today is March 14th, or 3.14, which is what most people remember for PI.
Today, 3.14 is a PI day! There are several jokes inside this joke.
GOOD LORD, THE DEAD LEPRECHAUN! It's like he's dancing and so deeply focused on his little magic dance, because he just can't believe how lucky he is.
Aaahahaha. That first one looks like Cousin [Paddy] It.
Remember the saying, "As Irish as Paddy's pig?" Well, that was the pig.
pi wrecks? PI WRECKS?
ok, you win teh interwebz.
thanks for the best laugh I've had today :)
It took me a minute...but I got it :)
Holy cow! That last pic is the best!! As someone who ADORES puns and is a big cooking/baking geek, this was amazing. Although it did earn me a verrry strange look from my husband when I burst out laughing and almost was in tears from how hysterical this was to me.
There is another holiday that is celebrated today. It involves steaks... but you'll have to google the rest. Try Urban Dictionary for March 14. I don't think it involves cakes though. hmmm, I'm sure it could involve lots of wrecks.