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October 4, 2011 Last weekend marked the first below-90-degree weather we've had in Orlando in nearly six months! Woohoo!
Which means I can now officially say...
;)
Y'all have GOT to be kidding me.
Hey Stephanie A., have any extra-strength Tylenol? 'Cuz these contractions are killing me.
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Happy F'll everybody!!!
Can't...comprehend. The stupid kills my brain O_o
Anyone else read this in a Yoda voice? No? Just me then.
Happy Fall Y'all? Is that it? ouch.
Trust me, Jen. For contractions this bad, you skip the extra-strength Tylenol and go straight to the epidural.
I grew up in that general area, and had friends from the very deep south, and even 40 years ago, that's how they wrote out "y'all". It took me a while to figure out that that contraction was for "you all" and not "you will".
I think they heard my *facepalm* about 2 states over.
SO.... yeah... I have no clue what is trying to be said with this cookie... Well unless they mean "Here let's confuse them with all the colours, then maybe they will "fail" to notice our subliminal message" but other then that I'm coming up blank!!
Now I'm hungry for a cookie... giant cookie.... OH NO I THINK THEY GOT TO ME!!!!... JEN...HELP ME!!!
LOL just kidding.. I'm good! Still oddly craving a giant cookie though...
Happy Fall You'll...you will WHAT? I need to know!!!!!!!! They must have run out of room like yesterday's cakes.
LOL KJG! I do now!
I honestly would not have understood this without the "y'all" comment after. I was thinking, "Is there a Yule in Autumn, now?"
Who knew cakes came with spellcheckers? ;-)
Maybe it's a new way of spelling "Yule". O_O
Also, I think I see your next book title.
Obviously the wreckerator was from up North, which is why he/she didn't know how to spell "y'all"....
Yeah, it's not "y'all" - it's the new second-half-of-the-year holiday celebrating the autumn harvest and Christmas... it's FallYule!!!!
*Cue rampant comment speculation about Jen being pregnant, even though it's well established that that's not going to happen.*
And that's almost as bad as the people who insist that's it's spelled "ya'll." They don't seem to get that that means "ya will."
You cropped out the second cookie, silly...the one that says "love our new pumpkin cake's!"
See? All better now...
I'm so excited because the other commenters on here know how to correctly spell "y'all"!! So many folks spell it "ya'll". Unfortunately, the cookie cake wrecker wasn't even in the ballpark.
"You'll fall happy"?" Happy fall yule"??
I can't get over that borders... Is it morris code? 2 white 1 red 1 white 1 red 1 white 1 red....
As a born & bred Southerner, I would like to extend my gratitude for not spelling it "ya'll." That HAD to be a Yankee!
If this cake wasn't done by a Northern (or rather, a non-Southerner) than it was done by someone trying to impersonate a Southerner. We ALL know that the contraction for "you all" is spelled Y'ALL, never YA'LL or this horrific butchering which actually means "you will". Points for a positive sentiment though!
This cookie was made to commemorate and salute the annual felling of the Christmas holiday log, a quaint tradition in obscure sections of some countires. Before the log was cut, the town crier would yell out, "Come now or you'll miss it," which in later years evolved into him just yelling, "You'll." The town folks would gather around the tree and wish it a "happy fall," indicating their desire that the tree not only not crush a poor villager as it fell, but also that it burn well, symbolizing prosperity for the coming year. As the tradition spread, an inter-community committee formalized the celebration and it got a fancy name, and became the cutting of the Yule log. However, this cookie keeps the original spelling with the colloquial contraction.
I have decided that it's meant to be read from bottom to top. Thusly the script reads, "You'll fall happy!"
Possibly the person is going skydiving?
No, no, no, the You'll Cake doesn't come until Christmas.
Our Admin Assistant uses this contraction all the time when addressing people. It makes me insane.
My cousin and her entire family insist this is the correct way to spell y'all. I've tried to tell her many times but she won't hear it.
@Jessa
I like your thinking!
It think it's supposed to be Happy FAIL... that makes MUCH more sense!! :)
I say it's a passive-aggressive message: "[I'm] Happy You'll Fall." Then the order-taker "fixed" it.
Remember, kids, "y'all" is singular, "all y'all" is plural, "all y'all's" is plural possessive, "you'll" is future imperative.
You're all wrong. It supposed to be Happy Foul You'll.
:)
Thank you, Jen, for spelling y'all correctly.
Do giant chocolate chip cookies even need frosting? I'd think that it'd detract from the cookie-ness. Y'all might disagree, but that's what I think.
Well sometimes you just have to look yourself in the face and say 'When in Rome'
That's awesome! Lol ....what would I do without you CakeWrecks!! :D
What Amanda Mac said! I hate, hate, hate the word y'all to be spelled ya'll. And I've NEVER seen it as "you'll." And I'm from the Deep South.
Is this some sort of Yoda thing, "Happy Fall You Will?" Someone knows just how clumsy I really am!!!
I think this cookie was actually meant for the legendary actor, Yul Brynner. (You know, from The Ten Commandments, "So let it be written, so let it be done." And from the Magnificent Seven and The King and I...) So... Happy Fall, Yul!
A big thank you to Mel. I always feel better after you explain things.
Now I'm waiting for a cookie that says, "Happy Fall, Youz." That's the way we did it in Brooklyn.
As a 10th generation Florida Cracker, 15th generation Southerner, and lifelong user of the contraction form of YA ALL I would like to clear up that YA’LL is actually the proper way to express YA ALL. If an apostrophe is supposed to be a place holder, then Y’ALL could mean anything that starts with the letter Y + ALL. Where the word YA’LL has correctly contracted the words YA (southern pronunciation of you) + ALL by using the entire first word and shortening the second, which is the usual method for contractions. It’s really that simple. Otherwise I would have written I’IS to start the last sentence. Or we would use Y’ARE instead of YOU’RE.
For the term YA ALL WILL as in “You all will be at the party, right?”, the contraction is YA’LL’LL.
YOU WILL is simply YOU’LL. I have never heard a Southerner use YA’LL for YOU WILL.
So this girl, bred, born and raised in the rural south will continue to use ya’ll, and no amount of calling her the “Y” word (yankee) will discourage her. She knows the truth. :)
I happen to be the second generation from the deep south (of California) and I know for *sure* that.....I will be in the bunker hiding out from all "y'all" and "ya'll". If any of "you'll" care to join me, please bring snacks that do not have contractions written on them. Thanks.
Ahhhh fall it means my favorite season is coming..... WINTER! I wonder what the this fail would look like if it was made in wintertime? "Happy Winter You'll?
Jaime Carnley is very strongly opinionated.
I'll what?
It's a good thing we're 'discussing' 'y'all' more than 'you'll' because the result of the latter could well be a...you'll tide.
Did anyone else notice how terrible the border looks? They started out accenting every break in the white shell border with a brown blob, but I am assuming that it was too difficult for them and they switched to doing every-other!
@Jamie Carnley “For the term YA ALL WILL as in “You all will be at the party, right?”, the contraction is YA’LL’LL.”
Some people will think you’re kidding. We actually use that set of contractions in my family though my mother has a conniption fit (aka “Mama pitches a hissy”)!
I can hear the OMGs already from the heathen elsewhere who don’t speak properly. :D
I predict this decorator's Christmas design will follow the theme.
"You'll-Tide Greetings!"
Well this is just mysterious. Happy Fall You'll... I am dying to know what it is I am going to do lol. Hopefully it isn't something like having to rake leaves. What are they telling me to do?? lol
It makes perfect sense if you read it backwards. Well, not perfect sense, but a heck of a lot more sense. "You'll fall happy" sounds like a bad fortune in a Chinese cookie but it is more grammatically sound.
My empathy for the weather, Jen. Here in Texas we've been boiling. I walked out the door yesterday morning and nearly went into shock. It was freaking 60 something with a breeze. I felt compelled to go back in the house and get a hoodie just to celebrate. Of course it was back up in the hi 80's/lo 90's by mid afternoon, but who cares, WHOOP, WHOOP! it was COOL!!!