Thursday
Nov042010
Forget Your "P"s and "Q"s...
November 4, 2010 ...some of us need to start minding our "L"s and "F"s.
[Warning: Parents, clear the room of innocents!]
One cake, two drastically different meanings:
Yes, yes, I know it's an "L." Well, kind of an L/F hybrid, really. In fact, you might say if L and F got together, had a few drinks...No?
No.
Ok, then.
Good juck?Eh. I got nuthin'.
This, on the other hand, is giving me a little too much:
Go ahead, Wreckerator. Tell us how that's an "L."
Or better yet, why don't we all go over the importance of keeping certain letters separated?
I bet that's one office send-off Janet will never forget.And btw, I love that the Wreckerator threw in the towel at the "J."
Like, s/he was all, "Let's see, I nailed that capital L, but man, I dunno if I can pull off the J! Huh.
Ah, screw it."
Thanks to Caitlin B., Christopher P., Chrissy G., Robin S., who agree that all performance reviews should be written in frosting.
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Reader Comments (547)
Oh man, I never thought about this risk regarding the dying art of cursive writing!!!
Good luck to me!
Wow...I can't imagine a bakery actually letting those cakes out of their door!
Can I be the official offended commenter today, huh, can I? Please?... What? I have to threaten to never read Cakewrecks again?...I can't do that...Oh, well. Someone else will have to be offended then.
wv: crombs. After we eat these cakes with f-bombs, all that will be left are the crombs.
I just can't imagine that the wreckerator didn't notice the mistake. Maybe they're conspiring and doing it on purpose because they're disgruntled and know that they'll end up on cake wrecks no matter what they do!
Most of those are questionable but the last one....no doubt!
These are terrible.
I read you daily to see what is up in the cake world! Also can't walk through the grocery store without a quick look at the cake department in hopes of spying my own Wreck...
As someone from the Emerald Isle, I must say you really can't top the luck of the Irish. ;)
They all forgot to put "in China" after "good luck".
Wow.
I'm going to wish myself "Good *UCK" on winning the contest today! Either way I'm a winner, see?!
W/V: herfeo - Winning that autographed CW book would sure make herfeo great!
Capital L, Capital F they're all the same... Although in defense some of the capital Ls are a bit crooked and make them look f-like...
Just what I needed to happily end my worst Lucking day ever.
Thank goodness for cake wrecks or I don't know if I would have survived today.
its amazing how something so trivial can have such an effect... brilliant! i wonder if sometimes they do it on purpose. i know i would, just to mess with people.
Did anyone else get a Rocky Horror Picture Show tune stuck in their head after reading that last cake or am I the only one?
I need you to pick me since I have already bought 2 of your books and let friends "borrow" them and I never get them back cause they let someone else borrow them! I need my book!
Hey Jen,
You rock! I'm amazed that such a simple concept can keep me laughing out loud EVERY DAY. Amazed.
WV: balar. "Balar! 'Rinna needs you to focus on those tutu twirls."
Wow, I have always wanted a cake commemorating my abilities... Never mind!!!
WV: jugen
These cakes sure are jugen a private part of bedroom lives.
Gud £uck with your contest, Jen! I hope I whin
Zita@Dal.Ca
Would it be worse if they really weren't supposed to be L's?
*blushing*
thank you
I can think of some people that I could send these cakes too. :-)
I wish I could use this one in my classroom (I use many, many of your posts to stress the importance of spelling/word choice to my high school English students). And, to be honest, share the laugh!
Maybe it's like when you read a fortune from a fortune cookie, and you add "in bed" after you read it.
Ah, but the real question is, which of these "ambiguous" letters is intentionally so?
This reminds me of an AP history teacher in my high school (too many years ago) who got her PhD from a prestigious southern university at a time when "too-educated" women were frowned upon. Her first and middle names were "Shirley Louise." For some reason, right there on the parchment, these were spelled "Shitley Louse."
You be the judge. In my book, that really takes the cake. (Get it? "Takes the cake"... oh, oh, forget it.)
well thats one way to mark a morning after.....I can see it now. hey it was a good night last night...I had this cake made to commemorate the event.
I love your blog! I hope I have some good juck and win a calendar so I don't have to look at another golf course calendar all year...again..just like the past few years!!
I love sharing your posts with my son. Not this one, though.
Well, if they dont work at the office party, they'll make EXCELLENT bachelor/bachelorette cakes
good #uck indeed!
If these are good-bye cakes, maybe it's a subtle (?) way of telling the departing soul to "Luck off." (See what I did there?)
bet your comment load is going through the roof!
Wow, I've written on ALOT of cakes, but I don't think my co-workers would let me live down a Good FLuck.... consider this WalMart Bakery employee fairly warned!
This is my new favorite post. Go Janet ;)
Bwahahahaha! I needed a good laugh, this morning.
Comment for book! Please!
If these are congraDulating someone for a good time (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), how do they know to buy the cake in advance? Or is it a "just in case" cake? If you don't have a good *uck, you can console yourself with cake--a win/win situation.
And THAT is why I never write on a cake in cursive....
Holy Schnikies, Caped Crusader!
That's some bad frostingship right there.
How do we know those aren't the perfect way to celebrate a one night stand. Think how many they would (or wouldn't) sell? And people say he's just not that "in" to you, hehehe. I want the book too :)
Oh, luck it! I'll never win the book or the calendar.
And in some countries, it's standard practice to write your f like those first l's. Maybe they're leaving something tasty on the dresser instead of a $20 on the way out.
The first one I was definitely seeing an L. By that last one I knew the decorators are pervs just trying to get one by us, kind of like those Disney cartoonist! ;)
Believe me, I'll have all the luck I need. ; )
Sort of a cursive/print hybrid that has the worst of both. Do kids even learn cursive any more?
I guess it wasn't bad enough that I was on the phone with my daughter when that first cake came up. Add to that, my daughter's name is Janet. Ruh Roh!
I want to summon the spirit of my second grade teacher and send her to haunt these wreckers until they complete her penmanship course.
This is why I don't bother to try to write in cursive anymore. My handwriting is bad enough as is, I don't need any help with miscommunication.
That first cake has a flat rate mailing box under it. Maybe they are sending it as a 'thank you' or a 'break up' cake? I dunno, just a thought.
-ali
If I were a wreckerator I would say: "L"uck you, Jen. lol