Cue Cards, Please?
November 20, 2009 Last week we looked at cakes that took labeling a bit too far. Today, let's look at the other side of the coin: when cakes really need to give us that hint.
See, once you read the text, and figure out that this has something to do with some sort of ski, it suddenly all makes sense! (Sort of.)
[smacking forehead] Oh, of course! It's TNT! How could I have missed that?
Now, if you're going to give us hints, Wreckerators, it helps if they're at least somewhat legible:
Do you KNOW how long I squinted at this thing, trying to figure out why there were black jellyfish on it? Well, do you?!?(No, I am not going to tell you what it is. I squinted hard for that knowledge, peeps.)
It also helps if the hints are spelled correctly:
So, we've got a fat anthropomorphic top lip with arms, and it says "Gone Crabiy." Oh kaaaay. (Well, I guess the word "crab" IS in there...)
Then there are the more cryptic hints:
"Cakes" like this (and I say "cakes" because, as you all know, cupcake cakes are NOT real cakes) can help us brush up on our deductive reasoning skills. Observe:
1. There is a number on the shape, and the cake board reads "Win! Win!"
2. Numbers and winning are often associated with sports.
3. Therefore, the "cake" is a stretched out, radioactive uterus.
Meg, Paula B., Robbie, Kaycee M., & Julie M., with that 8 on there the temptation to make some kind of OctoMom crack is rather strong - but I resisted, just for you.
You're welcome.
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Reader Comments (180)
okok i see it. the ski one is supposed to be WATER skiing. the second one looks like french fries if you ask me. and now i feel very smart. i know what it says i know what it says {singsong voice}. yep i do. GRAVEYARD!!!! hehe thanks jen, you made me feel like i learned something today.
It's a very sad depiction of a graveyard, with tombstones that say, "RIP."
And "splorin Wolfies", if you REALLY REALLY did read this entire blog from beginning to end, you must be very sore from extended sitting time!! I started reading this thing about a month ago, and still don't think I've read it all!! (and you can ask my family-who may consider me estranged now-I have spend MUCH time reading it! ha ha!)
"black Jellyfish" = sentinels from The Matrix perhaps?
Well, the first one looks like, maybe, a speedboat, and perhaps they're talking about water-skiing?
Why would anyone have a cake that said "Graveyard" btw? What would that be for? A funeral cake? A really uninspired Halloween cake?
And the last one... looks like a sad attempt at a Texas Longhorn.
WV - colsa: sugar free coleslaw
I was looking at the blog and my 8 year old was walking by and said, "Hey, that's a grave yard." "How do you know that," I said. "Because it says RIP."
See...now how hard was that?
hahahahahahaha
Okay, There are too many comments... did anyone guess "Orangemen" for the last one? Syracuse university football team.
THANK YOU to everyone who figured out that word on the jellyfish mess. I stared at that for way longer than I should have. :)
I kept thinking that cake looked like something a high school student would bring to biology as a representation of a cell. The "jellyfish" looked like a bunch of mitochondrion and endoplasmic reticulum to me! :D
I think that last one is clearly the Mega Man villain "Yellow Devil"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzN4Obox5qA&NR=1
I agree(sadly) that the last one must be the UT-TN power T. The color is wrong for tx and right for TN. And the first one has to be a jet ski.
apparently I live with too many lefties, Graveyard was dead easy for me to read!
Ooh, spooky gravuyard. Least of all the colour of your gums after eating that icing.
I think the last one is supposed to be a numbered sports jersey.
Not that it corrects the spelling, but I am pretty sure that the one with the crab should say, "Gone Crabbing."
That graveyard/RIP jelly baby one is a real mess !
Oh my GOD, I lost my mind with that last cake! I was laughing so hard, my husband thought I was going crazy!
"A stretched out, radioactive uterus"
ROFL! Just ROFL!!!!!
Now I kind of want my gravestone to look like a jellyfish... Who do I go to for that, I wonder...
i have no idea! tell me!
I think that orange CCC is one of the robots from the Berzerk video game. Maybe it's meant to pep up the team before the big game. "Go Robots! Beat Human! Yaaaay team!"
A ski slope ending in a sea of blood? WTF?
The last cake is definitely Denver Broncos. #8 for quarterback Kyle Orton, bright orange was the primary color on their old uniforms (which denver natives still prefer) and blue icing around the cupcakes (again, same shade of blue that was on their old uniforms).
Upsilon? That's the only thing I can think of.
Also, enjoy your crabs.
I am so smart! ... Okay maybe not but it took me 3 seconds to realize that the jellyfish cake was really tombstones that said RIP and that the illegible writing said graveyard. I think I get these things easier since I am dyslexic... Is it okay that I blame it on my dyslexia?
That first one is a jet ski, not a snow ski, hence the ski mention.
If you tilt your head, squint your left eye, and dust off your imagination it looks like a cake wreck graveyard of the future...
and WHY is there a road (I think it's a road) going through the middle
The text on the third cake actually looks pretty clear to me. It says "Graveyard."
Envy my young, perfect eyes, Jen.
I think the last one has something to do with the "Octo-Mom."
Perhaps the 'TNT' on the second 'cake' indicates where the actual TNT is to be placed. Only because it is a CCC, don't ya know.
Once I figured out (don't ask me how) that the third one is a Halloween item, I was able to decode the word 'graveyard'. After that, everything else fell into place, so to speak. The 'jellyfish' are open graves and the green squiggles say 'RIP'.
In #4, I was able to determine that so much orange icing had gone into making the crab (note in passing that the shell only turns red after cooking) that nothing was left to close the g on the mystery word. Meanwhile, space limitations (or perhaps limitations of another sort) prevented inclusion of the second b in... crabbing.
I also thought 'uterus' on #5, but I missed the radioactive angle. What do the numeral 8 and 'Win! Win!' have to do with a uterus? I'm not even gonna go there. Perhaps the mystery object is a school logo. Could be a medical school. I'll stop now.
I'd say, the "Win, Win" "cake" looks more like an IUD!
I would say that the "Win, Win" "cake" looks more like an IUD!
Looked at it for approximately 3.5 seconds, figured out it was a wonky graveyard. I'm proud of myself; apparently sifting through pages and pages of unmitigated baking disasters has honed my wreckterpretation skills to a fine point. ;)