Say Again?
November 27, 2012 It's a fundamental fact of life that the more ridiculously off base a misspelling, the funnier it is.
So, "Congradulations?" Not particularly funny. "Controdulatior?" Funny.
And this?
;)
HYSTERICAL.
Then there are the times when everything is technically spelled correctly, but...
;)
(I don't know what's happening here, but I "like" it.)
I guess we can't judge this next wreckerator too harshly, since "Bon Voyage" isn't actually English; it's French. And we can't expect bakers to know French, now, can we? OF COURSE NOT. So don't even THINK about laughing. Seriously. It's a simple, honest-to-goodness mistake that ANYONE could easily ma...uh.
Oh, dear.
;)
Never mind.
("Have a nice trip! See you next fail!")
Thanks to Deb, Deborah A., & Terye B. for the stop, drop, and ROTFL.
Reader Comments (38)
Sung to "We are Family"
We home "family"
Goob by to Kate's lucky booby
We home "family"
Von vau jage to B. A. Gibby
We home family!
I got all my quotemarks with me!
We home family!
Get up everybody and wreck!
Long live Sister Sledge.
Do you suppose Adrian felt slighted?
Hmm... these are awful!! I'm going to guess the second one was supposed to be Welcome Family, but taken from some sloppy handwriting so the L and C looked like an H?! Possible. No excuse for not double checking that though. Jeez Louise!
Why does this make me think of "Fragile.(fra-gee-lay) It must be Italian."?
Awe. Some.
@ DB Adrian was only going part way on that trip so he gets smaller lettering. Though it looks like maybe Becca was a substitute traveller at the last minute.
Loving the Saryn and DB posts this morning. Some song parodies just write themselves, don't they?
Cake numer 1 - If you imagine this being said by a 1930's child star, (think Jackie Cooper or Shirley Temple) it is actually correct.
Cake number 2 - They simply left out a comma and an exclamation point. It should read,
"We home, "Family!" " (are all of those quotation marks "correct"?"")
What group of close, yet legally unrelated, people wouldn't love to see that message on a cake welcoming them to their new abode? I find it "touching."
Cake number 3- Has anyone considered that "Von Vau Jage" might just be an actual French Phrase. I know there are a lot of Canadians on here, (hi!) perhaps they can provide a translationl.
And to the tune of "American Pie"...
“Goob by Bust of duck” makes me cry
Will I ever find a cake with a message I’d buy?
We home “family”, in case you want to drop by(?!)
Thinking this’ll be the day I choose pie.
This’ll be the day I choose pie.
Oh, and is We home "family" like We home "School"?
I went to a craft show this past week-end and one vender was selling a kid's toy, and offered "Free Personized."
@zoomom: (1) one of the funniest movies ever, based on the writings of one of America's funniest writers...(2) lol....
@SuBee: ""Good' """work"'
@Sharyn, zoomom, and DB: do I sense a CakeWreck's trio in the wings....? Could be popular at bakery openings everywhere...!
At least the balloons on the "Goob By" cake look like balloons instead of gametes!
No, you misunderstand that first wreck... It's explaining the cause of its own wreckiness, immortalized in frosting... The "goof" was "caused" by Kate's Bust of Luck. No, really. HONest... Would the voices lie? (blinkblink)...
DB: Jinx -- one of us owes the other a badly-rendered wrecklica of a Coke, done in cake (preferably with Elite Icing.)
Lolol'ing at all of the song parodies people are posting XD XD
@zoomom: Is this what you were thinking of?
http://youtu.be/r-c1Oz0ZwQQ?t=4m18s
The funniest thing about cake #1 is that the recipient's name is actually Roger.
"Have a nice trip, see you next fall" always makes me think of the scene from the movie "Sybil" where her mom trips her down the stairs. *shudder*
Von Vou jage? Ja, ju betcha!
It is clear that these bakeries employed competent decorators and only used the wreckorators for the inscriptions. Look at those roses! The balloons? Oh, my. For someone has seen way too many little swimmers masquerading as "balloons" these were a revelation! I hear-by declare these: "The Best Piped Party Balloons Posted on Cake Wrecks (Possibly Excepting Sunday Sweets Posts.)" It's a long title, but totally well deserved.
Were I that decorator I would be strangling the wrecorator's neck right now for ruining my pretty cake.
Jackwire - Was Roger under Dunne?
Showing the last cake to my French husband, he looked at it for a moment, blinked, looked at me, looked back at it and said "I thought it was supposed to be German"
I did a Bing translate for Von Vau Jage and it translated into the Hunt of Vau. So happy hunting Becca, Adrian, and Gibby. Or Run Vau run!!!
There used to be a restaurant in one of the suburbs of a major Northeastern city that, for a fancy touch on its carry-out menu, added Julia Child's famous "French Chef" tag line. Only the typesetter didn't know how to spell French correctly, and so this is what appeared on thousands of flyers and takeout menus:
"Bon apetit."
These wrecks almost make me want to wish everyone a Happy Falker Satherhood.
When I was younger, I had a "Bust of Luck," but now it's just a drag. Ba dum bum!
The last cake is trilligual: German, Albanain, and Norwegian. That's impressive! I'm not sure what "of steppingstone chase Becca Adrian Gibby" means, but it sounds kind of scary.
The third cake might be a word cloud rather than an actual message. If so, Gibby is trending. Also, I'd like to see more data presented in dessert format.
I think from now on when i wish someone a good trip, I'll just use this cake's phonetic pronunciation and say "Von Va-jayjay!". Though that might seem inappropriate if the imminent vacationer is a man.
Geez you guys, the cakes are so wrong on so many levels but you guys are killin' me in the comments!
@Caren- Don't worry, there is a whole book out about how the whole Sybil thing was a hoax. I saw it at my B&N the other day, along with Wreck the Halls:)
As for the mithspellings and "quotes", just when you think it can't get any worse... Although the first one does make more sense in Shirley Temple's voice.
My husband won't stop saying "Boob by, bust of luck" and miming big boobs and laughing like crazy. He says he's funnier than Cake Wrecks. Don't worry, as you can see, he's not that funny.
Bonjour mes ami(e)s! I work as a translator in Toronto, and I just gotta say: uh, no. Sorry, SuBee, it is indeed as bad as you feared.
But hey, c'est la vie! C'est la guerre! C'est la dreck.
I'm just happy to see a cake with balloons that do not look like gigantic sperm.
The third cake looks like someone was trying to do the European languages and couldn't quite manage it.
@Sharyn ~ Now I wanna see a Coke cake wreck with Elite icing. Got anything like that Jen???
@Liz in Seattle ~ I think I just died! Thanks for the Grey's reference! :-)
@Puppygirl ~ I think I love your husband! In a completely non stalkerish way ;-)
Such a tragedy. The cakes are beautifully decorated and then some evil person snuck into the wreckerators fridge at night and put all those misspelled words on there lol. Must be the competition..yeah that's a likely story.
forget breast implants- I want a Bust of Luck!! Powerball's at about $500 gazillion this week, don't ya know.
Cayx Wregdzes.