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I will love him/her and squeeze him/her and call him/her "Babs."
Good friends, the Hooks and Slices always hoped their little ones might one day grow up and fall in love. However, little James' love of the open sea and life-long distaste of children would eventually drive Sally to drinking and raising teacup poodles. (Although after the ASPCA stepped in, she was forced to stick to just raising them.)Here's a tip: if your last name is Bignar, and you want your shower cake to read "Welcome Baby," proceed with caution.
Wow. It's not often one gets to witness the birth of an embarrassing nickname!Do you suppose a kid named "Finally" could ever get addressed in a non-sarcastic manner?
I mean, think about it: "Finally! You're here!"
Ah yes, Luca Joeseph Kiwi Mango - that's the name of kings, right there.Tasty, fruity kings.
Anony M., Alisa K., Carrie B., Shane M., & Amy C., how many people do you suppose asked what flavor the cake was?
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The first cake is tragic--I love the design and lettering. The last cake ranks in my top ten favorites. If it's good enough for Apple Paltrow-Martin...
How do you drink a teacup poodle? Do you make poodle puddles?
Ha! Love me some "teacup poodles" in my morning coffee, if no one's looking! That cake was totally weird.
Oh dear....on cake #2, my mind went back to the post a few days ago about the process of giving birth.....just when I thought I had managed to forget it!
My therapist will thank you.
Someone will likely point this out to you, but hook and slice are golf terms. It deals with hitting the ball left or right.
That said, it still doesn't make the cake make ANY more sense than it does. But the accents on the cake are super cute.
Last cake? LOVE it. Yep, he'll be a fruity king or there will be several fruity kings. NOt sure which.....
Even if that last cake is welcoming FOUR people, there's enough randomly-placed candy flotsam for everyone, so no worries.
wv: Subto-- Don't be subto about your cake plans, because wreckorators need things spelled out!
Are we sure that's welcome Babbies and not Baffies?
Hook Slice is baffling. Sounds like a celebration of a violent method of C-section. The foreign cake label makes me wonder...
And Luca Joseph Kiwi Mango--if not the flavor (duh) then could it be the names of twins Luca Joseph and Kiwi Mango, or quadruplets Luca, Joseph, Kiwi and Mango?
I mean, Gwyneth Paltrow DID name her daughter "Apple"...
Trevor, can hook and slice also both be boxing terms? I know hook can....
The first cake is for twins? And the decoration on the hook and slice one is lovely, though it would be very odd in Ireland where the connotations of baby angels are obviously not the same as China (?)
I know Jen always makes jokes about a baby boy named Finally. I work for a government agency and had a child come across my desk named Finally, and a boy. I was so intrigued I had to find out what lead to this name. After contacting the grandparent, I learned that he had 7 older sisters. So Jen, he is out there!
"Welcome Babbies" would be a perfectly reasonable thing to say to Scottish twins...
The first one immediately took me back to the "how is babby formed" meme:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed
Makes me wonder when the "all your base are belong to us" cake will show up.
You drink the poodle puddle with a poodle puddle paddle, of course. Just mind you don't drink the poodle piddle.
"Welcome Babbies" would be a perfectly reasonable thing to say to Scottish twins...
Or if they were Brummie babies (from Birmingham, UK).
When I read that last post it reminded me of the old Monty Python sketch:
"It's spelled Luxury Yacht, but it's pronounced Lucas Joseph Kiwi Mango!"
The "drinking and raising teacup poodles" bit cracked me up! The cake itself still has me stumped though...
And there on the fourth cake you can see where they just didn't use enough icing to cover the sides. What's amazing is that there's still so much wrecktastic material out there to be mined.
HOW IS BABBY FORMED
HOW IS BABBY FORMED
HOW GIRL GET PRAGNENT
Tasty fruity kings... hee hee
Thank you for that, it will make my entire day more worthwhile.
Hook <3 Slice. Joanie <3 Chachi.
And poor Luca Joseph Kiwi Mango's cake is splitting from all the candy flotsam. Poor guy.
WV: Carither. Wreckiness does not give a cake carither. It just makes it a wreck.
OK, I've seen some weird baby names, but Kiwi Mango??!?!!
And what kind of name is "Hook Slice"? Although, judging from the Chinese writing on the bakery label here, I'm guessing the decorator may have had only minimal command of Engrish, I mean English.
These cakes literally make my head hurt. I can't figure out the Hook/Slice at all. Of course, the fact that it's after midnight my time (China), my brain is probably on complete malfunction.
::Tilting head sideways::
Nope, that didn't help.
Your comments on that first one made me laugh/cry. The hook/slice one is baffling.
The scary thing is I know of a kid named Kiwi.......
Oh, I just had a thought:
Given the "Pink vs. Blue" decorative theme on the "Hook/Slice" cake, could "Hook" and "Slice" be vulgar terms for portions of the male and female anatomy, respectively?
... No, I didn't say that. Who, me?
I predict that the boy from the last cake will become fast friends with Throat Warbler-Mangrove (aka Raymond Luxury-Yacht)
ha ha, I have to think that some of my friends could have ordered the first one and it would have been completely on purpose. "How is babby formed?"
Oh...dear {In creaky door voice.}
That's what I said when I saw the last one. Pity the children. Pity them.
It just makes me feel ill that people order cakes saying "Finally" about getting a child the "right" gender. Way to completely destroy the other kids in the family. You weren't born because your parents wanted you, they wished you had been a ____ and had to keep on trying because you failed.
I do understand a family wanting a male heir to carry on the family name, or the desire to have a daughter to share feminine interests with, but when that desire is carried to an unhealthy level and the girls/boys in the family are made to feel their inferiority, it's awful.
Kiwi and Mango could be dogs' names... my cousins had a dog named Mango.
Wow! "Big Nar"?!! That is so weird.
"Kiwi Mango"!!!!!!
This is definitely the funniest posts of 2010...so far! :D
A kiwi mango cake just sounds gross.
I was hoping the "Finally is a boy" cake was "Finley" spelled wrong, but that's usually a girl's name...
KittyKat - Cake 4 could be taken to mean that the parents had been trying for a long time to have a baby, and this is their first.
That being said - I'm a mom of 3 boys, and I can't tell you how many people (and we're talking complete strangers, like the grocery store checkout lady) have asked me if we're going to try again for a girl. I absolutely hate the assumption that we feel our family to be incomplete without a daughter; when in fact, we're very happy with exactly the kids God gave us. (When I was pregnant with my third and we told family that our ultrasound indicated a boy, my husband's grandmother patted my hand and said, 'There there, dear, maybe next time you'll finally get that girl.' I could've socked her. I responded, 'Thanks, but I think I'll finish gestating this one first.')
my first thought when seeing the hook/slice cake was of conjoined twins being separated.
I don't get the hook {heart} slice thing at all!
Agreed. My husband and I (and consequently our friends and family) call our 8-month-old daughter "Babby" after the internet meme. We would totally order a cake like that on purpose.
With our lucky, they'd "fix" it for us and it would say "babies".
Priceless as always. In my home town (birmingham, UK) babbies is a perfectly correct word so there!
2: This makes me think of all those people walking around with the Chinese symbol for "strengh" or whatever tattoed on their back. What if it really says something like "cheeseburger"?
Maybe the Chinese baker thought they were writing the English for Joy and Happiness. Or maybe two Chinese parents saw "Hook" and "Slice" written out and thought they were awsome name choices. Do they sound like 80's gangmember nicknames to anyone else?
4: Finally is a boy... Sounds like a cake celebrating a specific kind of elective surgery.
I've noticed a specfic baby theme for the past couple of days. Is there some news you'd like to share with us? : )
Finally and Bignor need nicknames. They deserve them. I suggest the "fruit" nicknames on the last cake.
Mocking
This blog is a riot. Who woulda thunk it???
Many couples give the fetus a cutesy nickname - could Hook and Slice be the soon-to-be-born twins to a golf-loving father?
The name of kings...excellent. Especially witty post today!
Aye, the pooor, wee babbies!
Is it sad that all I can think of after reading this post is how delicious a kiwi-mango cake sounds? I'm left with an urge to make one.
I thought it was "Baffies." I wonder if they know Big Nar?
wv: Barro-- As in, "No, you can't barro my flotsam, 'cause I gotta make a cake."
I'll bet Luca can't wait to grow up and play with his sister, Julie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot:-P
...gold star to those who get the reference;)
"Hook" and "Slice" can also be bowling terms, I believe. Oh, wait-- that doesn't help, either.
Maybe they're single-word excerpts from the manual on how to serve cake?
You know, I've seen parents push their sons to be athletes, or doctors, or lawyers, but this is definitely the first time I've seen parents setting their child up so perfectly for a career as a professional drag queen. You go, little Luca Joseph Kiwi Mango!
--kate
That first cake could have been my sister-in-law's. When she was in grade school, she wrote a paper about the Mayflower and mentioned that a "babby" boy was born during the crossing. Since then, babies have been babbies in our family.
Gary said... "Oh, I just had a thought:
Given the "Pink vs. Blue" decorative theme on the "Hook/Slice" cake, could "Hook" and "Slice" be vulgar terms for portions of the male and female anatomy, respectively?"
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Hmm, between today's and yesterday's cakes, do you think Jen is trying to tell us something?
ROTFLMAO! God, you CRACK me up!
It looks like whoever wrote hook and slice did it in Sharpie. So would not be eating that cake.
You finally get that baby boy, and then you name him "Finally?" So now we all can see how very bad you are at planning, since in all this time you haven't managed to think up a better name?
Or does it just go with the names of his older sisters, "Not What We Hoped For," "Another Disappointment," and "Why Me, God?" There's a family that's big on nicknames, for you. Huh.
oh heavens, does the Stork on the Bignar cake seriously look like it is going to be paddled with the frosting rattle up the butt, or what?
Abi, I like your interpretation MUCH better, and anyone who has suffered through the nightmare of infertility certainly has earned as many "FINALLY!" celebration cakes as they want!
Congrats on your 3 terrific sons. I am sorry you have relatives who don't seem willing just to enjoy the fabulous kids you already have! It's really unhealthy the level some people will try to impose their template of an "ideal family" on other people's kids!
I suppose the parents of little Hook and Slice are raising them to be henchpeople for a golf-obsessed James Bond villain.
Actually, no. Not James Bond. Dick Tracy. That comic revels in goofy pun names so much you might mistake it for a parody.
In line with what Gary said about the Hook & Slice cake, some people believe that certain...um, positions can lead to having a boy or a girl. I absolutely cringed when I saw it, whatever it IS supposed to mean.
Holy Smurf, I just now got the Captain Hook reference (was his first name indicated as "James" anywhere besides that awful Disney sequel?) ... but I have no idea who Sally Slice is.
That reminds me of the jokes amongst Harry Potter fans about Sirius being serious, ehm himself.
*looks through comments* Oh, good, I'm not the only one who thought of "How is babby formed."
Finally it's a boy...how many times did they try before?!
The folks who commissioned the "Big Nar" cake also should've looked into finding someone with a sense of color and an eye for flotsam arrangement. I guess this goes to show you can't have it all-- or even any of it, maybe.
"tasty, fruity king"...LOL!!
word verification:
sking - a king with a little extra fruity "zing"!
Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I can totally read the names on that last cake as Luca Kiwi and Joseph Mango. Or, perhaps, Luca Joseph's cake was supposed to have kiwis and mangoes on it (or be a kiwi-mango cake).
Ah, the possibilities!
I love cakes that leave it all up to the imagination.
WV: donsig - a wrecky way of saying "dancing." I feel like donsig because this blog makes me feel so good about my amateur cake decorating!
Abi, when my husband told his mom our first child was a girl, her first response was, "Oh, are you disappointed?" (palm slapping forehead)
I'm finding it's much more fun to read the post, read the comments, re-read the post. Apparently I missed stuff the first time through!
Doing genealogy, I frequently run across an eighteenth or nineteeth century family with a Finis as the last child. After 10 or so you just get tired. . .
wv - nopere. Ha ha ha. Not in this case! (French for father, if you didn't get it.)
I hope that "Finally" cake isn't the result of some mad, desperate longing to have a boy-- you can't control everything in life. Also, this inability to control things applies to your cake order at the local bakery, it would seem.
I'm with those who couldn't see a problem with the first cake. I know enough people that call 'em babbies that I just figured it belonged to an Irish family (or as other commenters have pointed out, Scottish or Brummie).
Hook and Slice are also used in cricket, but the latter is not an elegant shot, so I doubt you'd name your kid that. Far more likely to be "Cover Drive". A good hook shot is worth naming your kid after though. Seems like a girl's name to me. Cover Drive would be your boy's name.
I'm willing to bet "Kiwi" and "Mango" were the nicknames of the twins while they were in utero.
My oldest brother was "Buzzard" and my other brother was "Vulture" when my mom was pregnant. I was "Crow" because my dad decided that since they wanted a girl, they needed a more "feminine-sounding" nickname. =D
As someone suggested hook & slice are probably the nicknames of a golf lover's twins. But I like to think that somehow a golf themed cake got mixed up with a baby shower cake. Somewhere there is a golf cake that says "Congratulations on your new arrivals."
Nobody would really name their kid Luca Joeseph Kiwi Mango, right? Kiwi Mango was the flavor that they wanted for the icing, right? And the wrecker didn't really spell "Joeseph," right?
Maybe "Kiwi Mango" IS the fruit of kings. Or the fruity king... Perhaps we've witnessed the birth of a future interior designer to the stars...
Aren't hook and slice words that mean your shot was off the mark? Am I reading too much into this if I think these are the poor kids' nicknames when they haven't even been born yet?
No way would I call my daughter Hook OR Slice! This is no way to map out a great future for her, with a suggestive nickname like that from the very beginning!
It is so sad when the placement of one capital letter can change the whole meaning of a sentance. Or even the lack of a capital letter.
While I have heard some really bizare names for kids, 'Finally' takes the cake (so to put it).
Q: What is it with celebrities giving their kids weird names? It is like they want them to be picked on at school.
The company that made the hook/slice cake is in Taiwan, so it was never designed to make sense to Americans.
I truly laughed out loud at the last cake... I bet it was vanilla, wasn't it?
Also loved the Bugs Bunny reference in the "hug him and squeeze him (and call him George)". Haven't heard that in ages!
Anyone else wonder about how the stork got the baby? I mean that red... is a tad suspicious.
I could be the only one thinking it but... "No! You cannot have the (Luca Joseph Kiwi) Mango!"
WV: stope - There's already too much flotsam on that cake, please stope adding to it!
I went to an antique needlework lecture that discussed a sampler by an early nineteenth century girl, Waitstill Richards. Apparently this was a fairly common name for a daughter whose parents had to "wait still" for a son.
People suck, and apparently always have. Yay history!
I'd bet anything that "kiwi mango" was the cake flavor, but got copied off the order form along with the inscription instructions.
THEY NEED TO DO WAY INSTAIN> MOTHER
WHO KILL THEIR BABBYS
tasty, fruity kings! hahahahahaha! I am sure my neighbours can me laughing.
LOL!!! LOVE that last one. Poor Joeseph Kiwi Mango indeed!
that's a keeper right there with under neat dat!
or "Finally . . . you've got that sex change you always wanted."
Dear, wonderful Jen and John --
I'm not disputing the wreckishness of that first cake, just unintentional chauvinism on your part: "babby" is a perfectly respectable pronunciation of "baby" in the Sunderland/Tyneside part of England -- up north, you know. Lots of planets have a North...I still admire and respect your dedication, just thought I'd offer this interpretation...
Jen is cutting back on posting and highlighting baby themed cakes....hmmmmmm
@ Anony. 8:49-- I'm glad the Taiwanese understand it, so please explain because I don't understand the Hook-Slice cake at all!
So on the last cake, WHY does it say kiwi mango? Is that the flavor of the cake maybe?
How is babbie formed?
Ah yes, Luca Joeseph Kiwi Mango - that's the name of kings, right there.
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A fruity king or Bob Geldof is having more children & this is his cake. I can see it, Luca Joeseph Kiwi Mango Geldof, he's playing with his sister's, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa, Little Pixie & Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. See, he fits right in there.
This blog is too funny!
*Searches for Babby meme and Instain Mother* Well, no need for my contribution. Carry on.
Kiwi isn't such a bad girl's name.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding!
Dear Emily,
Babbies is not an English word.
Also:
Blimey,
Ruddy,
Bangers and Mash,
and How's your father?
See? Those are all not English. They're English English which doesn't count as English if you're not in an English speaking country that is England.
English.
I hope that's clear.
;)
john
Misplaced modifiers make are my favorite!
How is babby caeked? How girl get desert?
(I'm wondering if it's a deliberate play on the babby meme.)
John (the hubby of Jenn),
I'm an English teacher in China. I'm from America. I'm a native English speaker. But now, I'm questioning my sanity.
"I'm soooooo confused!" (Vinnie Barbarino lives.)
I do teach a section on the difference between American and British English, but I've never heard of "How's your father?" being an item of contention. (Gotta admit, never heard of "babbies" before either!)
English.
It's what on the cake. Maybe. Maybe not.
WV: dosse. Dosse or doesn't he? Understand my confusion?
I thought of the babby meme and Brummies, too. That said, it very well could be non-intentional wreckage...
LOL I also hope 'Finally' is a long-waited for first baby, not the unfortunate progeny of desperate parents who had 13 girls in the hope of having a boy! I can understand appreciating children of either gender, but when it becomes a creepy obsession, carrying on having kids just to 'complete the set' rather than because they can look after and want more children, it's the children that suffer.
Word Verification: skilis.
Don't apply for a cake decoraring job unless you have all the relevant skilis, or you will create nothing but wrecks!
New word verification: inessest (too bad to pass up!)
Obsessing about having a kid of one particular gender may make people think you're into inessest...
Tirya, why did your parents name you ugly birds in utero?
my twins were "lumpy" and "hiccup" in utero, but that was because one hiccupped every day and lump moved around all the time, creating lumps on my belly.
I am so disappointed that the name on the 4th cake is Mango. I wanted it to be Mongo. That little one could grow up to be strong enough to sock a horse in the jaw but Mango?
This is what they can expect, impressive but not the same.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10316/saturday-night-live-mango-garth-brooks
Hilarious, as usual.
I can tell the "babbies" cakes was, almost for sure, decorated by someone whose first language used the cyrilic alphabet. So well, just a forgiving smile to that one :0)I
"War Cake," as in "It's chocolate covered shrapnel, thus the awkward shape?" Or because they shot the strawberries right into the side, which would explain their odd placement? Was a derator used to make this? Without a doubt!
Maybe "Derator" is actually a misspelling of "Detonator?"
The Babbies Cake - Babbies are what we call young babies in the black country area of the UK so this may not be a mistake...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/features/2002/12/accents/black_country_dialect.shtml
The last cake is one of my favorites Ever!!
Kathy
"However, little James' love of the open sea and life-long distaste of children would eventually drive Sally to drinking and raising teacup poodles. (Although after the ASPCA stepped in, she was forced to stick to just raising them.)"
LOL! When I read this, I laughed so hard, I shot my teacup poodle out my nose. Excuse me while I wipe off my computer screen.
--- Sally
How about "Finally! The pain is over!"
That sounds like an event to celebrate with a cake to me.
Anon - Why ugly birds? Our last name is "Tweet" so the bird theme was sort of a gimme. =)
I guess they finally figured out how a babby should be formed?
I laughed so hard I snorted. By myself in the office. Know what? It was still embarrassing. I love Fruity Kings.
My friend actually named her daughter Kiwi. At first I just thought it was a nickname.
The last cake is a new top favorite for me. Right up there with "Your Day Has Come" with the chopped off hand. :)
maybe the parents on the first cake are Dark Tower fans? Wolves of the Calla come ta take your babbies!
ahhahaha "kiwi mango". omg! i love these. they are some of the best. and thanks, i needed the laugh tonight.
My parents were married for about 14 years before I was conceived. My baby shower cake appropriately said, "Welcome. What took you so long?"
Sorry, but I'm with everyone else who said 'babbies' might not be a mistake. It's a perfectly reasonable word in many parts of the British Isles, so really it just depends who the cake was for and what they intended to have on it.
I'm thinking Kiwi and Mango are the colors to used.... hence the orange and green... under neat that.
@culinarychiq lol i get it...but isn't it juliet? not julie?
Maybe twins, Luca Kiwi & Joseph Mango? Actually that sounds like a pair of sub-Saharan African rebels...
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