Tuesday
Jul262011
Homophoned In
July 26, 2011 Here's one way to tell if a cake order was made over the phone:
Followed by a three hour tour?[For the record, that joke makes me feel reeeeally old.]
John and I just sat here saying the words "our" and "are" ad nauseam. We sounded a lot like the seagulls in Finding Nemo: "Our? Are? Hour? R? Arr?"
Still, I take comfort in knowing you're all doing the exact same thing.
Now this one made us sound like the Count from Sesame Street. Which is to say, AWESOME.
In fact, from now on, I'm always pronouncing "welcome" like "wheeel come."
Sometimes a cake makes you wonder about its back story...
...but the good news is Sam actually didn't give a flying crap.And finally, here's a girl with a need for speed:
Yep. Rose really likes to put the petal to the medal.Thanks to Rachel N., Sarah D., Scot N., Kelly R., F.F., & Jon A., who only caught that last line because they've had their coffee. Good work, guys.
Reader Comments (107)
I'm a tiny bit annoyed that you actually made me, just by the power of suggestion, sit here doing the whole "our/are/arr/r/hour" thing. Now I feel like a dork. Oh well, that was a pleasant waste of sanity. :3
But holy crap. Two hour new adventures? I wonder how much they cost! And how adventurous they are!
I wonder if one can get a soar ass from braking a leg? (blinkblink)
When forced to mingle,
the Sprinkles of the fam
glares at the Roses.
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And now for The Show-Off Show!
The forepre-antepenultimate cake made me realize I am not as culturally American as J&J.
The pre-antepenultimate cake made me chortle at the sprinkle/rose ratio.
The antepenultimate made me grin like a Muppet.
The penultimate cake left me feeling sorry for the baker.
The ultimate cake reminded me of my traffic violation this morning.
I'm trying to rap my head around they're cakes. Its very hard two do this. Butt, I shall press froth and keep at it.
As a second grade teacher, let me apologize for all the elementary teachers who apparently did not teach homophones.
I'm surprised no one else has figured out what's going on in the "Bless are family" cake. Obviously, this cake was ordered by a Southerner but wreck-orated by a non-Southerner. Any other decorator would've known "are" meant "our".
Wouldn't it be an EX- cockroach?
I have python quote OCD you see. Me and Eric the half-a-bee.
And there was me thinking the Bless Are Family cake said Bless One Family - maybe I'm even worse than the bakers and can't read, let alone spell?!
"The Soar Ass" = Thesaurus? Maybe? Or not. Still makes no sense!
Gina
Oh, and the title of this post reminded me of this (you may have already seen it, but just in case):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0J-T2lr0Ms" rel="nofollow">School House Polka
I'm guessing that Sam gave someone a thesaurus... but I'm not sure that really warrants a fancy chocolate cake. Maybe the baker got carried away with all the synonyms.
Maybe sam was just a pain in all of their (there they're) butts and they meant 'sore ass'
My first thought on Sam's cake was that he was a proctologist who gave someone a favourable diagnosis and sore was just spelt wrong.
My 5 year old's favourite bedtime songs are all Monty Python songs. I always appreciate all the quotes!
I think the "Soar Ass Sam" is supposed to be "So Awesome". But the "the" doesn't fit.
I know the person that first one was for. I know a wreckie!
I wonder if Sam lent him a Thesaurus???
How do you knoooow it's a roach?
My theory on Sam is that he's a glider pilot whose friends wanted to thank him for all the soars he'd taken them on. Being a regular reader of Cake Wrecks, his friend was very careful to spell out exactly which word she wanted on the cake when she phoned the bakery:
Friend: Write "Thanks for the soars, Sam". That's ess-oh-ay-ar-ess.
Baker: Got it. Ess-oh-ay-ar ass.
Hey, it's as good a theory as any other...
Perhaps it's supposed to be:
Thanks
for the
psoriasis
Sam!
WV:subtli
The baker tried to slip in the misspelled words subtli, so as not to land on cake wrecks.
We have a winner! I like the above English Teacher's vote for "Soar Ass" who said it would be "Thanks for the service." Though I have to say, I also liked the idea "Rebecca" had early on, who said it was "Soap Opera Rapid Age Syndrome"!
I have spent more time on this one than I should!
Sam just took them horseback riding or something, that's all.
At least Rose's cake looks edible - but 3 dots? Roseann Roseannadanna might say, "It's always something!"
Two funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0J-T2lr0Ms
That is all. :D
@ Melinda- Thank ewe. Knot sure how eye missed that.
I always thought those birds from Nemo were saying "Mike!Mike!Mike!Mike!" But then, I also used to think Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way' was really 'Horse Display'...
Aaargh! Spelling!
Hahaha! The "Soar Ass" cake made my day!
Great to read after a long day at work!
@FluffyCow: Your we'll come. :-)
Thanks for being so consistently and incredibly hilarious. I hope you two realise just how much you make the world a better place by creating laughter! You make me pee my pants almost daily and I thank you for it! Keep spreading the cake love&laughter North to your friends up in Canada!
I think "Soar Ass" is what happens when you "haul ass" at such a high rate of speed that you're practically flying. So really, the cake is a thank you to Sam for racing to the rescue!
Nothing perks up a "Bless Are Family" cake like tons of sprinkles!
Lol too funny! I think it should be required that two people proofread and make sure it makes sense before putting it on the cake. And I'm pretty sure she knows it's "mine" in Nemo; she just meant that they were saying "our, are, hour" so many times it reminded her of that.
Grate post...I liked reeding it.
But RobynR's comment was what made me laugh out loud. A bit.
Lizzie
"Two Hour New Adventures"...sounds like Nancy & Kay might be getting a visit from the Vice Squad with a business like that.
And those squirmy things on the cake for the Program Administration from "We'll Come"...I just don't want to know.
My DH is of the opinion that it IS "sore ass" if not "soar ass", and the event was indeed worthy of a cake.
He bases this on the fact that one of his buddies is a subscriber to Iron Butt Magazine.
Get your minds out of the gutter!
It's a magazine devoted to long distance motorcycling.
lol!!!! so funny!!!!
I like that you grew up with the same awesome shows I did. We are not old! We are fortunate to have grown up in the 70's and 80's.:-)
The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure.....FIve passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour..... A Threee Hour Tooouuuuurrr...... Ha! I That totally made my day and i'm 18!! So don't feel too old Jen ;)
Love the puns today!!
That cake with the sprinkles on it looks like the roses are stealthily sneaking around the cake licking up sprinkles lol. Could just be me though. I loved the first cake until I saw what was written on it. It was pretty then the wreckerators just had to ruin it by writing on it ahhh well lol.
Did NOBODY notice the GENEROUS use od sorinkles on the "are" cake???
Long time reader, first time writing...
After viewing the second cake, I began practicing "Our? Are? Hour?" in my very best seagull voice. Then I read the next sentence. Uncontrollable giggling ensued. How did you know?!
Your blog makes my life SO much better. :)
wv: skedeper = the slightly tipsy skipper conducting the three hour tour?
You definetly had us going "our, are, r, hour..." like the seagulls from Finding Nemo.
Of course, then we had to do it again in Dory's whalespeak.
hehehehe
U half too dew that know two.
Medal?!
We named our daughter AMY-Three letters. All straight lines. She could print it before she was born. And still we get, "Amy. Is that Aimee?"
WV- namersay-The namersay their Children's names one way, but everyone else messes them up!
#1 sounds like the celebration of a lesbian love affair, or maybe they're ladies for hire and the men they service are thanking them
#3 sounds like the staff agreeing to show up. how nice of them.
#4: Sam is either a pilot or a horse (I'm hoping). Otherwise, we have an issue of either something kinky and unmentionable...or some sort of fraternity hazing event a la "Animal House":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ "Thank you sir, may I have another!" (Kevin Bacon has come a long way....)
#5: Is Rose a bad driver?
@ elissa--woe be to you if the recipients of your thesauri try to get you a cake. Now we're talking about an inscription reading "thanks for the sore eye"! and if that happens, send it to cake wrecks and we'll have to ponder the meaning (injury? pink eye? etc)
wv: caccipho--I came home from my vacation and my cat left caccipho all over the house in protest of the dirty litter box.
I wasn't going to say anything, but then I saw my WV: buggi
These misspellings just drive me buggi!
Merry from Annie's Book Stop/Sharon, MA