Stop. Helping.
September 10, 2015 It's only natural, I know. You see all the wreckage on this blog and you think, "Ok, but surely I can keep my order from being wrecked, right? I mean, all I have to do is help the baker out a little!
"Why, if I just spell it out clearly, military style..."
Nice job, Ace.
"Or maybe if I write it all down...
;)
"And if I indicate which part is the actual text..."
"Um... Or what if I ask for just a single letter? That's easy, right?"
Color me impressed. Or magenta.
"Ok, fine, I get it. You've made your point. No text. I guess I'll just ask for a flower or something."
;)
"AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGHHH!!"
Thanks to Katy E., Cristina B., Terry M., Brandt H., & Anony M. for making this post literally painful.
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Reader Comments (29)
That Hawaiian shirt cake is pretty neat otherwise
*headdesk*
C.C. is celebrating her hysterectomy, of course.
Shame on me for being disappointed in proper spelling and syntax/usage. This site has ruined me. And I'm not even mad.
Bwaaaahahaha!!! Laughing too much!...tears!.... Just awesome! This site should be a direct link from Webster's definition of Murphy's Law. Love it. ;)
My eyes must be deceiving me. The Hawaiian Shirt is a CCC. Ignoring the Text...it's one of the best CCC's ever, if there is such a thing as a good CCC. Please someone, tell me I'm not hallucinating. Jen, brilliant as always!
Text:
E- as in Endometrial
A- as in Ablation
W- as in Who
R- as in Ray
With an excalmation mark at the end.
I was hoping for the Magenta T to be in blue or green icing.
I just can't help but think there's a cruel, perverse injustice in that "Just A Flower" may have been received by the same poor soul who years ago had her dreams crushed the fateful day she requested sprinkles.
The first one might have been intentional, if the recipient were, say, a copy editor working on a first grade speller. At least it didn't read "X - as in excellent".
Magenta just got herself an IUD. Way to go, Gurl!
What a Debbie Downer, you are! At least all the words are spelled correctly!
Why is it proper spelling usually only happens when the words were not really wanted in the first place? Seriously, 'excellent' and 'magenta' are so much more difficult than, say, 'happy', and yet we just had a whole post of misspelled 'Happy Birthday' cakes. *le sigh*
Dang it. If cake gets wrecks with help AND without what hope is there??
I agree, the CC cake Hawaiian shirt is fantastic.
I began my life of crime working for Ma Bell. When we took an order for new service we had to spell the name back - A, as in Adam, N, as in Nancy, D, as in David, R, as in...well you get the idea. One poor befuddled soul replied, "Yeah, that's me...but who are all those other people?"
How sad is it that I was super-impressed that they remembered the direct address comma on the Hawaiian shirt cake? Seriously, NOBODY ever remembers it exists, and it's been driving me crazy for the past couple of decades. So, there's that.
That first cake would be great for a kindergarten year-end celebration.
I started my life of crime working as a service rep for Ma Bell. When we took an order for new service, we had to make absolutely sure the name was spelled correctly. "That's A as in Adam, N as in Nancy, D as in David, R as in..." Well, you get the idea. One poor befuddled customer listened, and then said, "Yeah, that's me. But who are all those other people?"
I can feel my IQ dropping with each new Wreck.
The magenta "T" kinda looks like an IUD. Cannot unsee. I'm very sorry.
Actually, all the cakes are nicely done, even the CCC (ptooie). And ... then came the letters.
What the hell is that supposed to say on the second cake, because all I can get is 'NO Pericles'.
And then I started to wonder what the context of such a request would be. "Yeah, you can decorate it with any prominent male figure from Ancient Greece, say between the Persian and The Peloponnesian wars, but not Pericles, okay? He really annoyed me. Sophocles, yes, Hippocrates, even Socrates, maybe Herodotus, but not Pericles. Anybody except him, I can't stand him - seriously, NO Pericles."
... nope, I didn't think so.
When I worked at the bakery at Whole Foods in California, we were required to write, verbatim, whatever the customer wrote on the description line of the order form. Clearly bakeries need to change their order forms to allow for specifications such as writing color, symbols only, or general directions. It was & is a stupid policy that leads to this nonsense.
I'm disappointed that people keep calling it a "Hawaiian Shirt" The correct name is "Aloha Shirt." *see Wiki definition
@ Dr. Handle: That was one Hellas-ciously funny post.
@Michelle...the gaffaw your post engendered scared the heck out of my cat. Well done.
@Dr Handle ... you rock.
Wow. We use the phonetic alphabet at work (thanks, Rickover). So I'd be reading that as A as in alpha, C for Charlie and E for echo. That makes much less sense than that first cake!
jackwire, it's good that we can laugh about these cakes, in Sparta the terrible job the bakers have done.
I love the first's "handwriting". Beautiful