Wednesday
May262010
Something Here Doesn't Add Up
May 26, 2010 We all know Wreckerators have trouble with the English and the spelling and whatnot.
(I don't know why they have trouble with the English, but they do.)
Well, turns out they aren't so great with numbers, either.
See? I tried to tell you cupcake cakes (patooie!) are all backwards.
"You're celebrating your 75th birthday? Meh, here's a quarter. Call someone who cares fractionally more than me."(Oooh, math puns are FUN!!)
There's an unwritten rule in Wreckerating: every number ends in "th." Yes, every number.
The irony here is that's the "fixed" version.Oh, and speaking of irony...
The kid on the right totally knows. He's just being polite.
Reader Comments (120)
Crystal said...
The first cake doesn't mention an age; maybe it is celebrating an often negative but inevitable milestone of aging: ED...erectile dysfunction.
At least the last cake had the correct use of "you're". That's gotta count for something.
Maybe Elizabeth is expecting the 2th fairy
@ john (the hubby of Jen)
Sorry- just got back to reading the new comments and had to LOL at your explanation at 11:37 about what you thought FTW meant. Yes, I was using it as For The Win, but alas I am neither young nor hip (more like old and geeky, but I digress). But I am flattered that you gave me the benefit of the doubt. :)
Jo said...
"... but how would we word the warning against realistic critter/baby cakes that are too gross to cut in to?"
Hmm ... Maybe, "Try to avoid creating cakes that make people want to puke. And whatever you do, steer clear of cannibalism."
@Jo-
I know its all in good fun, and I never really stopped loving you, since I signed my post that way.
Of course a wreckery manager would be be biased like that. He probably calls the girls sweetie and leans over them as they frost. :)
Courtney
That "You're Number One" cake is heartbreaking, because it comes so close: "You're" is spelled correctly (a very rare feat on cakes), the lines are straight, the colors aren't disgusting ... but ... Oh, well (as the kids in the picture must be saying to themselves).
i guess i just wondered why anyone would go so far as to 'shop something so awful onto a cake. but then i remembered people are crazy.
No matter how many times I tell her, my daughter still insists she was born on the "Twenty-One th"
Your blog is so funny! Every cake makes my jaw drop.
Happy tooth birthday, Clizabeth!
And math puns are the best!
WV: bockiest
That icing on the second-to-last cake is the bockiest I'd ever seen.
Now, how do we know the creators of the EO cake aren't just ecstatic that Captain EO has returned to Disneyland? That's something to celebrate with cake, right?
My kindergartner and I had fun looking at this one. She said "Momma, didn't those people go to school?!" LOL! Out of the mouths of babes :-)
Hey, it's the 2th fairy!
'Soviet Princess' belongs on a shirt!
@Sand Mama, no one can be 'E0' years old until they hit the ripe old age of 224. Although as a programmer, I think stating ages in hexadecimal on cakes would rock. Someone who is 80 would be '50' for instance.
On second thought, someone who is 79 would be '4F'. Ok, scratch that idea.
The "0" in the 1th pic looks kinda like a startled or worried face. Tee-Hee!
Hello Kitty cake, thats cute. xx
Reminds me of the time my 4yo granddaughter told me that she was threeth. I said, "Don't you mean third?" She replied, "Grandma, it is threeth!" LOVE Cake Wrecks!
It's just like my Grad certificate! I graduated on the 28nd of May!
"t" in century -
a man witnessing a wreck.
Stop the fraction! Nooooo!