Deep Thoughts

There's something about staring at wrecks for a while that makes me start thinking...

Deep Thoughts.
You know, stuff like:

Is it true cannibals won't eat clowns because they taste funny?

And why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Ever wonder what color Smurfs turn when they're choked?

Or if a cow laughs, does milk come out of her nose?

And can a cow be lactose intolerant?

Why don't they make mouse-flavored cat food?

(Don't they have the guts?)

Do frogs have to wait an hour after eating before they get out of the water?

Because this guy already looks a little cramped.

When sign makers go on strike, what do they write on their signs?

(          ,         !)

And why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

While we're at it, how come "monosyllabic" isn't?

Oh, and what if there weren't any hypothetical questions?

Glup!

You know, the other thing staring at cake wrecks does is make me want to take a nap.
I'll do that while you think about this stuff, OK?

Profound thanks to Linn S., Marcos G., Kathryn P., Katie F., Christine C., Kristen P., Susan H., Catharine, and Aimee H. for seeing the deep philosophical meaning behind these wrecks, and to my Mom and Dad for sending me the e-mail that got me started down this path.

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Comments

[Haiku Joy]

This hug is for SaraCVT's girl. (((()))) It looks like an onion, but it's really a hug.

[Seabird]

@Knittedbooties - *laugh* It took me until your comment to realize what "Glup" was actually supposed to be... I was assuming it was a mangled name left over from Celebrate Your Name Week, and I I just couldn't figure it out! =-)

[Earl of Sandwich]

@Jodee: you're welcome!
@sendingtheclowns: keen ear.....

[mel]

@TLC: hope the flu flees and you're feeling better soon!
@SaraCVT: keeping you and your daughter and family in my thoughts, and hope the new meds bring balance and peace....

[Zippy]

The cakes, commentary and comments from the gallery are hilarious! I needed that after this crazy week.

I believe that there is a series of books calle Imponderables that actually answers these types of questions (why do we drive in a parkway and park in a driveway, why are Yellow trucks orange, do penguins have knees, etc.).

[Emma]

I don't see anything wrong with the Kim cake, it's spelled correctly, and is actually kind of pretty. The letters are a little too curly, to be sure, but it doesn't seem like a wreck to me.

[Cali Gal]

The front legs on the frog look to me like male "parts" with a little something extra (three instead of two).

[Nerfbomb]

#2 isn't a sheep, it's a ....umm.....**looks back at pic & squints**.....a quadriplegic yeti?

#3 would have worked if A) they'd taken away a few cupcakes on the outside, to make the face actually face-shaped, or B) they'd made the hat red & the "extra" cupcakes white, which would've created an acceptable Papa Smurf.

#5 why they don't make mouse-flavored cat food:
***(long version)***
Cat (& dog) food is [usually] made from the scraps & off-cuts leftover from commercial butchering. It isn't profitable to separate the small pieces of human-consumable meat from the cartilage/tendons/ligaments that it's attached to; it's easier just to grind it all up together, but humans wouldn't want to eat the resulting "pate". Cats/dogs however don't care, in fact if given the carcass, they would just eat it all anyway. They are predators after all, when they catch an animal they just eat it as it is.
Since the cow/pig/fish/poultry was already butchered for human consumption, using the leftover bits (called "byproducts" in the vernacular*) to make pet food is a good & efficient practice, to avoid wasting any part of the animal.
However, no humans eat mice, at least not in the US, & certainly there is no commercial butchering of mice for human consumption. Therefore any mouse-flavored cat food would have to be made from mice that were bred, raised & slaughtered solely for making into cat food. And it would be "in-humane" & "unethical", to raise animals for no other purpose than to be killed, processed & sold commercially as canned food for other animals.
***(short version)***
Basically, PETA would have a major freak-out hissy-fit if mice were killed just to make cat food, and all the crazy cat-ladies would be mortified that "Little Miss Snookums" was eating "horrible disgusting rodents".

It is okay however, to breed & raise rats to be frozen whole & sold for snakes to eat.....go figure.

#8 looks like somebody went crazy with the serifs thar, and mixing lowercases & capitals didn't help either...."GONGRATwhATioND" ?

#9 apparently "glup" is a real word! It means "stupid, dumb, or moronic" in Slovene & Serbo-Croatian. It is also: urban slang for "lip boogers", a Chilean pop band in the mid 90's - early 00's, and an animated film from Spain. Take your pick which one is meant on the cake! (I'm betting it's for the Chilean boy-band members, who would probably around 39 by now)

* yes, that's right all those "terrible" byproducts, are just slaughterhouse business lingo for "left-over bits & innards" -- parts of the animals that dogs & cats would normally eat in nature anyway.
In fact, if you ever watch a dog eating prey, the first thing they eat is the "innards", that's the tastiest part to them, and cats just start at the head & eat everything.

[lucytheleper]

Not that anyone will see this so late in the game, but about the mouse flavored cat food... We used to buy treats for our cats that were made out of mouse. Unfortunately, they did discontinue that flavor.