Tuesday
May242011
Giving Wrecks a Bad Name
May 24, 2011 Parents, if you don't want to risk bruised feelings on their birthdays, I suggest you NOT name any of your children "Cubby":
Or "Angus":
("Why, I declare, I didn't know it was the Colonel's birthday!")Or "Ritchie":
And don't even *think* about "Bobby":
(Got milk?)Or, heaven forbid, "Trudi":
And while you're at it, you'd better avoid pet names like "honey bunny," too:
In fact, maybe you should just leave names off your cakes all together. That way, nothing can go wrong.
I rest my case.Thanks to wreckporters Laura R., Lacey C., Trisha A., Brian C., Kirsten H., Kelly N., & Erica for the name-calling.
Reader Comments (76)
The Booby cake would have been so easy to fix too, just a little stem to turn that second o into a b... It must take talent to produce such a wreck.
I wasn't "getting" the Ingus joke. I thought, "huh, what's so wrong with Ingus? It's much better than Anus, right?" And what's with the Colonel bit? But then I read the comment in my best Mississippi accent. And I was shocked, I tell you, shocked by you Jenn! And I used to think you were such a refined young woman. ;-) LOL!
wv: barpt
I almost barpt when I saw the last cake.
Angus' cake could have been worse... the "decorator" could have just omitted the 'g'.
Additional evidence that some names are really self-fulfilling prophecies: "Happy Birthday, Chubby -- have a heavily-frosted giant cookie!"
'Happy Birthday Ingus' also celebrates the coming History Channel premier of 'Lava Road Truckers.' "Those ice road guys are girlie-men compared to us!"
I'm getting a strong hint of intentionality in the 'mis-spelling' of Ritchie's cake.
'Booby' seems to have been the recipient of a radically new take on the cupcake cake. Are those Frosted Flakes?
Poor Turdi. Ya wanna know what someone really thinks of you, just let 'em order your birthday cake. Know what I'm sayin'? That has to be in the running for 'most actively disgusting cake yet' because it's almost good, yet has problems. What on Mars happened on the left side?!
Not sure if it helps or not that I went directly to 'Boney Maroney' on the next one.
Finally, nothing. With worms. Oh joy.
At Bitchie I was hooting.
At Got Milk I laughed so hard I scared the dog.
At Turdi I nearly tripped over the dog trying to race to the bathroom to pee.
I came back and saw Honey Boney and nearly woke the neighbors I was nearly screaming with laughter.
(wipes tears from eyes)
Bless you!!!
-Barbara Anne
P.S. you warn us we should just lug our computers into the bathroom??
Oh poor Ritchie, to be done in by an overwrought "R".
WV: imycle
Who was the imycle who decorated these wrecks?
HAHA! Reminds me of the Office when Micheal's GF Jan had the baby, and they spelled it wrong-Astird!
-C-squared!
These men are nihilists... there's nothing to be afraid of.
Oh my goodness! I thought that honey boney cake was pretty til I saw the writing lol. At least you could read it. Poor booby or bobby..not a good thing. I sure wouldn't have bought that or the turdi cake. Sheesh and I thought my name would be hard for them to spell..
lol at the happy birthday booby one, the kids asked me what i was laughing at so i told them, nothing
Please please can someone tell me what the 'wv' thing is all about??
You said poor Angus but I was expecting a MUCH worse name than Ingus! Thank goodness they remembered the 'g'!
ahh Colin Firths greatest performance.
I literally laughed out loud at some of these - particularly Trudi lol.
Well I'm sure most of these are meant to be jokes...
"bye bye bitchie" ahhh my favorite
LOVE the SNL reference on cake #2!
second cake... happy birthday INGUS. ingus means SNOT in the malay language, here in south east asia. lovely, just lovely. fiery snot, anyone?
:) 69 comments (although this is 70...)
The sad thing is that that "honey boney" cake wouldn't be a wreck if it weren't for that. It's actually quite nice.
Ahhhh! Thank you, thank you ALL of you for the word verify explanation! Being in the know really amplifies the hilarity! :)
WV: ingsts - Them there decorators must have a lot of ingsts built up in order to slaughter those cakes that way.
Richie's cake made me laugh out loud! Too funny!
Colonel Ingus. BWA HA HA HA!
Chubby! Turdi! ...... Laughing STILL. Thank you, yet AGAIN for another laugh-out-loud morning. Just what I need while recovering from surgery. Laughter is the best medicine. Thank you Dr. Jen! ;)
I realize it's been pointed out, but in fairness, getting the name "Angus" wrong by one letter could have turned out much worse.
Dear Adorably Dead, are you saying that nothing makes you laugh, or nothing understands you? In either case, you have my sympathies. But, if you mean that nothing takes ownership of you, and that is continually the case, then I am glad (although I'm not sure what that has to do with the post).
Just randomly looking at old posts because, hey, who doesn't need a good guffaw every now and again? Anyway...
I have to ask, on the HAPPY BiRTHDAY, INGUS cake, is the I of birthday the only letter that's lowercase? Are we doing a nod to Apple? iPod, iPad, iTunes, BiRTHDAY...and if that's the case then shouldn't the I in Ingus also be lowercase? AUGH! So many questions!