Sobering Celebrations
January 21, 2015 Choosing the right cake design to go with your message is key. After all, you wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea, now, would you?
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Aw, now there's a warm welcome.
(And if you think an overly enthusiastic volunteer fire brigade might spell disaster, you're wrong. It spells "neiborhood.")
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Baptism, baseball...they both involve dunking, right?
[UPDATE: I have just been informed that baseball does not, in fact, have dunking. Apparently that's hockey. My bad.]
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Ah, Niko. That boy is creeping up on death like a herd of geriatric turtles. Why, it seems like only yesterday you were playing with Thomas the Tank Engine, huh, Niko? Maybe because it WAS only yesterday, but still.
(No, the 5 is not a typo; this really was for a fifth birthday party.)
Whoops, Karen T., Karen G., & Tammy C., apparently geriatric turtles come in flocks.
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Reader Comments (35)
The last cake may make sense if "Niko" is really "Nico" from the book series "Percy Jackson and the Olympians." In the books, Nico is the demigod son of Hades, so . . . death-related best wishes may be just the thing!
What the flock? Of course I've herd of geriatric turtles! It's the neiborhood that's throwing me...
I'm not sure about that first cake. Every reference to fire and firemen was obviously added after the original house and trees. It makes me wonder if someone decided to "spice things up" with the house on fire. On the other hand, in the last year the house across the street from me and the business to my left have both caught on fire so if someone moved into my neighborhood that cake might be appropriate.
Gee, ever noticed how yellow writing never shows up on a yellow background. Oh, wait, no, you wouldn't.
I sort of love that first cake. If I were the recipient, I would be thinking that I had just moved into an awesome neighborhood full of people with an amazing sense of humor (also a neighborhood potentially filled with arsonists, but humor beats arson any day).
Don't Fear the Reaper
Bakers carry on
Wish these cakes were gone
Niko don’t fear the reaper
It’s these cakes that cause him pain
(We can be like Niko)
Come on wreckies
Wreckies take a stand
We’ll escape the wrecks
Niko, he’s our man… Or boy. I guess he’s really just a little boy.
Well, while I do think the cake for the 5-year-old is a bit grim, I have to say this: It's his party, and he'll die if he wants to! =^-.-^=
Is the grim reaper surfing on a coffin? That's pretty awesome! As long as he doesn't wipe out on those big black floating buoys. (That's what they are, right?)
On the last cake. The kid must be a fan of "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy".
I really need to know the story of these in order to put them in context O_o
The second one down, I read as "Happy Erik", so I wondered: are people are now having cakes decorated to suit people's personalities? I wonder if we will see "Zany Jen", "Enthusiastic Annabelle" or, for the teenager in your life, "Angsty Debbie"? Because angsty is totally a word, yo.
That housewarming cake looks vaguely familiar, like there should be a terrified deer running through the grass.
The first cake could have been celebrating the opening of a new neighborhood fire station. Maybe?
I didn't see the word "Baptism" on the second cake at first either and thought, "Oh, baseball makes Erik happy. That's nice."
The best suggestion so far for the third one is that Niko is a "Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy fan" and I'm just gonna go with that.
Does it disturb anyone else that the word "baptism" is written just below the baseball player's crotch? Makes me shudder and wonder just what liquid is being used in that baptism ceremony...
The second one down seemed really odd to me because it said "Happy Baptism Erik" and Baptism was between the baseball player's legs... What kind of church is this kid being baptised for anyways? Made me think of the song about "worshipping at the shrine of your life" LOL
The Nico in question is obviously Nico DiAngelo, the son of Hades from the Percy Jackson series.
Anyone else notice that "Baptism" is in yellow right below the baseball player's, um, personal parts? I've heard of men writing in the snow, but...
Would you consider the pitcher is not at a baseball game, but rather a dunking booth?? That might be the tie in.
Maybe the people who got the first cake had to move to a new neighborhood because their house burned down. Why you would celebrate that with cake is another question.
That last cake???? I didn't even know who the grim reaper was when i was five and if I had, I'm pretty sure I would still be having nightmares had he appeared on my cake.
Omg! I just squealed! I sent in the first cake!!! It was for a new fire station that opened by my house. I thought it was funny when I saw it on a local site. Like "glad you're here- we burn houses down around here!"
there is no dunking in hockey either!! Basketball has dunking!
As a Halloween birthday kid, my 7th birthday cake was gray, with a graveyard theme with plastic tombstones and black frosting. It had a witch on it, not a reaper though.
Rachel - I saw "Happy Eric" at first, too! (I thought that was the wreck…)
I think there's a Monster Truck called The Grim Reaper. That would be more likely for a 5 year old.
As a fan of the Percy Jackson series, I could see that for the last (grim reaper) cake. But I don't know too many 5 year olds who can read well enough to want that cake (Kudos if mom or dad is reading it to him though!). I'm gonna go with monster truck grim reaper. But what on earth are the black blobs to the left of the cake? At first I thought they may be bowling balls, but that would just add a whole new level of creepy to it...
Maybe the new guy the first cake is for IS a fireman, or maybe there was a recent fire in the area, with not serious enough damage to make this cake in bad taste.
Did anyone notice where the word "baptism" is?
Maybe Niko is a child psychopath? Anyone notice the blotch of red under the giant black balls? Like something was smashed and killed. Niko is a very "special" child!
My son got the grim reaper cake for his 8th birthday! I got a lot of weird looks from the bakery, but my boy loved it and so did his friends :)
To think you moved to that 'neiborhood' based on school ratings!
Less a "Baptism" and more a "Brrrrrraaaaptism," amirite?
Wow for that fifth birthday cake. I really hope the kid wasn't freaked out by it. Getting old at five wow. I must be beyond ancient if that is the case lol.
I think the Jenn poster has it right - the 5 year old cake is supposed to have a monster truck on it called the Grim Reaper. So it's a wreck of a wreck.
Maybe Niko is a baby goth?
Haha I didn't find the last one strange at all--kids LOVE that Grim Reaper cake. I've had more kids than adults order it by about four to one.