I'm sure this will be shocking to absolutely none of you, but I've always been a big
Dilbert fan. Probably because he reminds me so much of my Dad, who I
think is an engineer, but to this day I couldn't tell you exactly what he does for a living.
(Words like "quality" and "resource" and "Brillouin-Scattering Centro-Symmetrical Birefringence" factor in there somehow, I believe.)Anyway, for those of you not familiar with the strip, Dilbert's dog
Dogbert likes to go around exorcising people of their stupidity, like so:
Which is pretty hilarious, and also what
Leni's coworkers wanted on their department manager's birthday cake.
Instead, they got this:
And that's "unintentional irony" for the win!
Score!!
And that's "unintentional irony" for the win! 
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HA! That's awful.
...but really funny.
-Deb
LOL! I used to have a coffee cup that said that and I would shake it at people I worked with...
Stupity is the emotion one feels upon being informed of impending Falker Satherhood.
"Tim lapsed into silent stupity when Carol told him she was carrying triplets."
My 7 year old daughter used to call me 'stupity' when she was little if I acted like a loon to make her laugh. Now, if I even attempt the same behaviour in front of her, she whines "Muu -uum! You're *embarrassing* me" whilst looking around to see if anyone else is looking. . . .
But this cake! How perfectly perfect!
You see, if they'd *asked* for that (piling on the irony factor) it just wouldn't have been funny. But because the wreckorator didn't realise their mistake, it's priceless!
Ah, we can all sleep happy in our beds tonight. :-)
Jo UK
I think a touch more red to the icing might have made the words more meaningful...mithspelling aside. Really, how seriously would you take an exorcis-or if he/she showed up in pink with a "bibel" ...you'd probably just roll over and kiss your sweet soul good bye!
Obviously the demons of "stupity" are hard to kick...
Wow---my husband is gonna love this one. He is a Dilbert fan. And he will want one of the mugs, too. It would be good to shake at the silly people who believe in the Mars Hoax.
And thus the visual definition of "ironic."
Awesome! Dogbert's point could not have been made better - and yummier.
When we first saw the Demons of Stupidity , we had to cut it out and hang it on the bulletin board at work. :D
I sense a T-shirt in the works. Dear God you just can't make this stuff up.
Wow...the fact that the wreckerator didn't even attempt Dogbert makes it even more wreckful. Love it!
This is going to be my screen saver at the office.
I want that exact cake for my husband. It's so perfect it's almost not a wreck. Almost. Maybe not.
I have the original comic strip hanging in my cubicle...it seems to have followed me from job to job, cube to cube! rofl
Love the cake...it might have to be my new desktop picture!
Gotta agree with Johanna on this one. That's actually funnier than if they had gotten what they ordered.
I'm not sure if this is an epic fail or an epic win...or perhaps we're officially in a parallel universe where it's both.
Gladys said Stupity is the emotion one feels upon being informed of impending Falker Satherhood.
"Tim lapsed into silent stupity when Carol told him she was carrying triplets."
Did you deliberately choose the names of two Dilbert charcters for your example? See Ted the generic guy (sometimes also called Tim) and Carol, who is apparently important enough to have her very own Wikipedi article dedicated to her. She would be pleased.
WV: plyst. Sounds Swedish, and possibly obscene.
Out, you...you...Demons of Dum!
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
at first i thought of the wreck was the decorator omitting dogbert. but then i read the comments and realized (after a second look) that the wreck was 'stupity'.
i also loved the pointy haired boss from dilbert.
If I'd have known that's what Dilbert was about, or at least his dog, I would have loved it a long time ago.
I may need to print that somewhere.
Does that sticker say "Fresh Bread"?
WV: Stupity
a mix of stupidity and iniquity, or really dumb wickedness, "By the end of her first day on the new job, Carol knew she had wandered into a den of stupity."
does the label say french bread?
lol... just what I needed to start my saturday morning!
Raychel from www.mycreativeway.blogspot.com
I love it!!
The label also claims this is not cake...it's some sort of elaborate "French Bread" according to them.
Stupity is as stupity does, and Stupity wreckorated this cake.
I love this one. Not only for the creative ironic spelling but because it's all frilly with pink roses and sweetness. It just makes me laugh on so many levels. Yum.
A funny coincidence, but not ironic. Irony has a different meaning. look it up.
My favorite part is how lazy the cake shop must have been-- it looks like they took a pre-made, pre-decorated cake intended to have "Happy Birthday Ollie" or somesuch written on it, and used that. Which is why there are sweet pink roses along with the garbled message. Seems a little out of context...
That is truly priceless. They must have LOVED that cake!
I also love how the label says that it is french bread....
Love it! Too funny. And since my spelling is awful I had to go back up and look at the original to see what was wrong! hehe At least I'm not decorating cakes...
So perfect. Everything about this cake makes me feel giggly. Sugar, chocolate, pink, humor, irony. It's missing nothing. This is the perfect cake.
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HeeeeLarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh the "stupity".
LOL
Gladys's comment wins. :D Just about as much as that cake.
;) The Mii Maker ;)
P.S. I've been reading Cake Wrecks so much that often times when I say, "That reminds me!" my mom or brother will say "Cake Wrecks?" :P
hahahaha, wowwwww! I think this is one of the best wrecks I have seen posted here in quite a while. I love this post.
Word Verification: oshizeas
"O shizeas!" the decorator exclaimed as she realized she misspelled the message on the cake, "Maybe no one will notice."
Nothing like an 'exorcism' cake with pink roses!
~Amy B
THAT is my all time favorite! LOLOLOLOL!!!
Out, out, brief candle!
(Oops, that's the wrong allusion.)
Out, Dogbert! (or "Spot" . . .)
wv: babialur
I can be such a babialur sometimes - just don't know when to shuddup.
Not to mention that whoever labeled it thought it was French bread!
Imagine my surprise last night while sitting down playing a game of Trival Pursuit on X-box 360, and "Cake Wrecks" came up on one of the lists of answers under Arts and Literature.
OMG! Nothing quite says "stupity" like dainty pink roses.
WV: quiver. That kind of says it all, don't you think?
Okay, how's this for stupity?
I had to read twice before I saw the problem....hee, hee.
BIGGEST SMILE I'VE HAD TODAY. :D
Somewhere, out there in a bakery...there is a decorator that has no idea what kind of hilarity they've unleashed upon humanity with this masterpiece.
Bless them.
Bless them.
yet another perfect t-shirt slogan given birth to on a cake-wreck.
hilarious.
And pink roses? So out of synch with "stupity." I mean, really.
Oh how STUPIT!
Ohhhh, thank goodness they didn't attempt to create Dogbert. I was cringeing as I scrolled down, fully expecting another blobby yellow disaster of Spongebob proportions. Dogbert in cupcakes! Perish the thought.
It looks like the "decorator" ran out of room to pipe the entire word; perhaps s/he thought they wouldn't notice an entire syllable missing.
I almost peed my pants. I definitely snorted. That was just too good.
Aw man, the really sad part is that I had to look at the cake a minute before I realized what was wrong with it! I am pitiful :p
your cakes are amazing as is your blog
The cake's price sticker says "French Bread" too...lol.
That's one of the "best" stories to date! Ha ha...
Does the price label say "French Bread?"
This is a classic! I'm a huge Dilbert fan, though I think this wreckerator may have actually improved upon the strip. Perhaps Dilbert should include this cake as Dogbert attemts to exorcise it?
You sure your dad isn't in space tilemetry? :)
Is it bad that I didn't notice anything was wrong until I started reading the comments?
**telemetry. Wish I could say that was on purpose...
The label says "Fresh bread every day at 5 or it's free" (or something very close to that) - Pretty sure this is a grocery chain near me that uses that advert on ALL its bakery/deli items. It's the blackout that gives it the additional irony of appearing mis-labelled.
I <3 Dogbert.
I have a question.
Do the demons of stupity fear chocolate or pink flowers more?
@Ricalynnand: yeah, thats kroger.
Love the pink roses. It goes with the I hate you affect
HAH! Go, Safeway cake! Lovely.
(...but speaking as an employee of Slaveway, I'd like to take this time to say that our cakes are always perfect. Join us now for our Go to Grill event at a Safeway near you.)
ohmygoodness, that is totally funny.
I want that on a t-shirt!
BITTER OLD BITCH said...
"Somewhere, out there in a bakery...there is a decorator that has no idea what kind of hilarity they've unleashed upon humanity with this masterpiece."
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Don't you mean, "hilarty" being unleashed upon "humity"?
(heheh)
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@Haiku Joy :
It popped into *my* head as Lady Macbeth's "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
But that was not a dog, like "Spot."
Awesome. Just ... awesome. :)
You should forward that cake to Scott Adams. :)
Jenn
This would be perfect for your book cover. People would have to buy the book just to find out what that cake was supposed to be.
How...How!...HOW??!?!? do things like this ever leave the bakery?
um, yeah...
even if it has been spelled right, does anyone else think this is just a strange cake to put it on?
because, pink flowers and stupity go hand-in-hand! :)
Seconding Ricalynnand's comment...there's a particular grocery chain which starts all its bakery labels with a little ad saying "French bread hot at 5pm or it's free" before identifying the actual stickered product. It's a bizarre practice, but not unique to this wreck, which stands on its own stupity. ;)
Dilbert is a hoot, but this cake takes it...(the cake, that is.) Even though stupidity seems to be running rampant through the world these days, chocolate and rosy stupity is a refreshing (and amusing) change!!!
Rock on stupity!!!
Thanks for the laugh, Jen! :)
Love it! It needs to be a shirt.
Haha. That is great. I love the little roses substituting for Dogbert.
I laughed so hard I just peed a little (but I'm pregnant, what's your excuse?)
Miciah, there are multiple forms of irony. This cake is an example of situational irony.
-Eva
@sendingintheclowns
Thanks! I'm glad someone else saw the allusion. Both are to Shakespeare's Macbeth, but because of the syllabic confines inherent in the haiku, I chose to pun on the word spot as though it were a dog's name. If I could have thrown in a Data reference somehow, I would have.
wv: mograt
And the mograts outgrabe.
So, I was ever so casually reading something (okay, it was Norman D. Knox' essay, "Irony", in Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, ed. Philip P. Wiener (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), Vol. II, pp. 626-634.) {ahem}
At any rate it said, in part: "IRONY may be defined as the conflict of two meanings which has a dramatic structure peculiar to itself: initially, one meaning, the appearance, presents itself as the obvious truth, but when the context of this meaning unfolds, in depth or in time, it surprisingly discloses a conflicting meaning, the reality, measured against which the first meaning now seems false or limited and, in its self-assurance, blind to its own situation." (emphasis added)So, to belabor the obvious, Dogbert's "out!! out!!" upon the cake turned the joke and conflicted it's meaning and then, turned it again. (Are we insiders or outsiders, audience or mark? Hmm.)
Let me also note that the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary states that the word origin for irony is the Greek eironeia meaning ‘simulated ignorance’. This cake would definitely be unintentional simulated ignorance. How unintentionally ironic. Which, I believe, is how it was labeled. I would also say that the meaning has unfolded, that it is, assuredly, a depth of {er} stupity that unfolds upon further examination. (I certainly did a double take on the cake.) I'd say this is definitely an ironic error.
At least that's what I'd say if I were the grammar police.
Lol. My father is an engineer too and I too have no idea what he -specifically- does :P
~ Rachie
lol awesome! :P
Stu Pity called...he wants his demons back. ;)
the sticker says french bread.
HAHAHAHAHA
BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Wow, that is win X 1000!
Joy? Was it brillig? Did the slithy toves gyre and gimble in the wabe? And were the mimsy borograves there? ;)
In the words of Baldrick: "Stupity, stupity, stupity!"
Our local Safeway store often has everything in the bakery section labeled French Bread. Someone is just too lazy to put in the correct label.
haha Baldrick! LL Blackadder.
HHAHA! Epic Win!
My Monday blues have been beaten!
To Orangeophelia: I feel I must point out that the buyer probably picked a random cake out of a display case and requested writing on it; not that the wreckerator was too lazy to draw dogbert or picked pink roses. Hence, it would be the buyer who was too lazy to order a cake ahead of time. That said, it was hilarious!
@holly
We simply must go snark-hunting sometime.
Poor Dilbert. My favorite was the fatherhood cake. The video was hilarious. I laughed as hard as the guy behind the counter and the lady behind the camera.
Awful and Funny .. LOL
heheh Thats tooo Funny :p lawl