Thursday
Nov112010
In Honer of Our Hero's
November 11, 2010 My fellow Americans, today is a day to say:
Or perhaps:
But only if you know Evan, of course. And what "Vetrens" are.Otherwise that'd just be weird.
Because today, my friends, is a day to celebrate those brave men and women who fought for that most important thing worth fighting for:
The head of the Statue of Liberty.
No, wait. That can't be right...
Aha! That's right, they fought for:
"FREE Dom!"
Whoever "Dom" is.
Today is also a day to celebrate that black slime alien guy from Star Trek:
Only we must do it patriotically:
Perfect.
[smirk]...allow me to say to all of our wonderful veterans:
O.o
Perhaps I should rephrase that.
[head tilt]
Naaah.
Thanks to Sandy K., Holly J., Jeff D., Sue D., Monica E., Tori L., Dana S., and anyone else who can successfully spell "heroes," "veteran," and "honor" after reading this post.
Reader Comments (132)
I am assuming the black cake was a shadow of a Soldier. The Statue of Liberty-WTF? All of the other cakes are just pathetic, but funny.
I think the last cake was a present to the hookers of America.
that's not the Statue of Liberty. I have pulled up a photo of her head on the internet, put the two side by side and THEY DO NOT MATCH. it looks more like a mouldy (for the Canadians) Cabbage Patch doll cake head...
-Barbara Anne
I saw the title before seeing the first cake, and I had a twinge of pain due to the misused apostrophe. Then I saw the first cake and thought, "I should have known better than that Jen would get it wrong," but it still was painful. Wreckerators don't just hurt those paying for the cakes; they hurt every grammar queen (and king.)
I'm not sure who would want the head of an angry, evil Statue of Liberty in cake, although by the time they finish the frosting on their slice of cake, the sugar comas will probably make them forget that there even WAS cake.
That one cake looks like the Statue of Liberty and the Sta-Puft marshmallow man had a kid.
Hey, John and Jen,
Today's not only Veteran's Day (thanks, veterans!). It's also "Singles' Day" in China! 11/11 every year is celebrated as singles' day b/c of all the "1's" in the date. Got any good singles' cakes for all of us singles??
"Lady Liberty ANGRY!"
In Afrikaans, "dom" means stupid - quite appropriate for these cakes really!
Janet (South Africa)
I'm from South African and read both your blogs daily.
Lesson for the day, "DOM" in our language (which is Afrikaans) means "Stupid"
Victoria said...
This makes me sad that in Britain people don't tend to do cakes in celebration or our equivalent day today to honour our veterans. I would have loved to see some of the failed spellings of Armistice Day!
November 11, 2010 11:37 AM
Oh yes, I'm sure they'd have butchered "Armistice" right royally. We call it "Remembrance Day" here in Australia and I see all kinds of half-baked attempts at that. Most common error is "Rememberance". Sorry. There's only three e's in Remembrance.
I think it's the "In honer of our hero's" one that gets me the most. I'm a "spelling Nazi", I'll admit it, and while I don't really like the concept of "American English", I can accept it. But for the love of all things good and sacred, whichever version you're going to use, at least spell it correctly!!
As for the superfluous apostrophe ... *facepalm*. No apostrophe required for plural!! I learned this stuff in primary school! (Elementary school for the Americans) It's not that difficult!
Elizabeth from Sydney, Australia.
(where words without u's also look weird. *high-5's Angie from Canada*)
I cannot believe it! Why there are so many spelling mistakes on cakes in the US? Please someone tell me...
I get the feeling that Lady Liberty is actually Mr. Bill. Where's Sluggo when you need him?
Well, "dom" in Afrikaans means "stupid" - kinda fits, yeah? Be free, little cake wreckers, be free...!
MC from NZ
Jenn, here in Britain, we spell it 'honour' as well. If you change your settings to 'English English' instead of 'American English' those horrible red dots disappear.
But nothing will get rid of the ones under 'honer' Ah well.
Love the free dom cake. For some reason it just reminded me of Futurama & 'Freedom Day' & made me giggle. Thanks!
Nothing says PATRIOT like eating the bulbous head of the Statue of Liberty!
Did anyone catch the little shout-out to Cake Wrecks on Top Chef- Just desserts? Zak said "I made a Cake Wreck!" for a cake he was eliminated for.
The Statue of Liberty blob cake is my new favorite!!
Well, Denise "Tasha Yar" Crosby's birthday is coming up (Nov 24th) so I suppose if the Armus cake doesn't sell then someone could send it to her so she can get a good laugh out of it. (Wow, how die-hard of a Trekkie was I back in the day that I can still remember some of their birthdays after all these years? In my defense, the ST:TNG calendars used to list birthdays as well as holidays.)
If that cake said Free Domme, I'd be all over that occasion. But Free Dom frightens me.
My husband, a vet, was laughing so hard when he saw these. You know most vets would be happy if you just said thanks and left it at that..cake, much less butchered cakes are soooo not necessary. :)
The Statue of Liberty reminds me of the head of X'tilapaketl (sp?), the giant Olmec head in the Simpsons' basement.
The butt-erfly is a nice touch, and well placed, too.
I love the Armustice cake ;)
OMG! I think I'm going to have to get the "Thanks for servicing our country" cake for my hubby when he gets home from this deployment. So often we feel like we are getting.... well, you get the picture.
wv: sislaere- Cause, sislaere, deese peepul jus cain't spell.
I thought the Statue of Liberty one was either an Easter Island or Tiki statue head. Poor Lady Liberty :(
"Dom" was the character in Inception who's trying to get back to his kids... so maybe that's who they were thinking of FREEing. That's actually fairly appropriate in a certain, Inception-related context..
LADY Liberty? That cake looks like the Kool-Aid Man's head after he was possessed by the most vile and powerful demon ever, and sprouted diabolical spikes!
Jen - the Statue of Liberty cake looks EXACTLY like the tiki glasses from the Polynesian Resort...just saying..
That head looks like the evil love child of the Statue of Liberty and the Kool Aid jug.
At times it seems our country is "servicing" us. Just sayin'.
wv: logua - self-explanatory
I dunno, I think misspelling IS an honor to our military folks. An all-volunteer force depends, to a great extent, on people with limited educational opportunities. So honer are Heros!