Then I started wondering: Just how many ways can you accidentally misspell "birthday?"
Thus began my journey. And so far, it's had some surprising destinations, lemme tell ya.
First, there's the expected stuff:
No?
Aw, c'mon, you doubting Thomases. This'll be fun.
Do I hear a missed 'T'?
Now how about a missed 'H'?
Let's get a little crazy. You think anyone's ever missed the 'Y'?
Ok, but surely - SURELY - no one has ever forgotten to write the 'B' in 'birthday', right?
Right?
Right?
(Are you guys as excited about this as I am?)
Drum roll, please!
Now that's what I'm TALKIN' 'bout.
(Also, check out the white roses masquerading as clouds. Impostors!)
Poor Aaron.
And would you believe we're just getting started? That's right, it's allll downhill from here. You'll have to tune in tomorrow, though, because John starts getting this funny little eye twitch every time I post more than half a dozen Wrecks at a time, and right now they're kind of bulging out in a way that simply can NOT be healthy. (His eyes, that is - not the wrecks. [Although, truth be told, some of them are kind of bulgy.])
So tomorrow, then. Be there, or be without amazingly hilarious misspelling of "birthday." And then where will you be?
Lia F., Lea G., Megan M., Keisha S., Diane C., Lex, Sandy, Erika K., Lauren, & Brian D., if you're keeping score, we're currently up to an imperfect 10. And if not, well, we're still up to 10.
- Related Wreckage: The Cutest Misspellings of "Happy Birthday" I Have Ever Seen
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hahaha these are hilarious. I mean, how hard is it to spell such a common word! (I just doubled checked this five times to make sure everything was spelled correctly.(
Wow. You know, I've always wanted a holiday named after me. I mean, how cool would it be for cakes to say, 'HAPPY DAWNDAY!!' Beth is one lucky lady.
wv: rediott (oh, come on, this one's too easy!)
What kind of rediott forgets the 'b' on a birthday cake???
I'm surprised there isn't one with an "A" missing. I think a "Happy Birthdy" cake would be awesome.
Hmmm...my daughter hates taking a bath with a passion. I'm thinking a "Happy Bathday" cake may be the ticket to getting her to comply.
Happy Birthsy? That missing "d" made for a double whammy there!
Any with the missing "a"?
WV: hooke . . . by hooke or crook, Jen and John will find every rendition of "birthday" in the book!
How in the world could you leave off the B especially since there is SPACE for it????
This is wonderful timing. Tomorrow is my daughter's 16th birthday! Would I get the bad mom award if I went looking for a cakewreck for her party? *evil grin*
WandaV
I bet the Bathday one was to convince a finicky child to bathe ;)
Uh-oh: Epcot alert! (I hope I'm not the 49th person to make this comment....)
The "B" actually is there - it just flipped over for some fun with the rainbow sperm. Which takes this one to a whole different level - and the whole post started out as such clean fun. LOL
Regarding the cake captioned "Poor Aaron": In the decorator's defense, I HAVE encountered a couple of guys named Arun.
Are you sure that cake is for "Aaron?" I know someone who's name is "Arun." It's Indian.
What about a missing "A"?
th20=AWESOME!!
http://agirlinherkitchen.blogspot.com
Oh!
My mother made me a 'Happy Birday' cake once. Forty years ago, now. Thanks for the memory.
"Hello. My office wants to get a cake to celebrate Earth Day. Could you do something with a nice blue sky and clouds? Balloons ... sure that would be festive. Just write on it 'Happy Earth Day'. Right, 'Earth Day'. I'll pick it up at 11. Thanks."
th20 LOL snort* OMG
great post..
Well, the "B" was technically there. It had just flipped over on top of the balloon next to it.
Ew.
WV: immens
Those cakes were immens wrecks!
The dyslexic cherry on top is probably the best!!
I LOVE this site!
I hate to have to point this out to you, but you posted two different "H" cakes and no "A" cakes. I feel lopsided and incomplete now.
And seriously. How do you miss the "B" on a birthday cake??
Happy Bathday is such a beautiful cake. Maybe they ARE celebrating the day the get clean, you know, like in the good old days when people got married in June traditionally because that is when they would bathe? or maybe they're water conservationists with friends who really want to encourage baths because of their, um, odor.
meanwhile, I don't see Aaron on that cake. Maybe they say he's the best daddy "around." And it looks like there's secrets messages written in the icing along the edges....
Bethday counts for a missing I. Just because they used a vowel does not give them credit for the WRONG vowel. and the one with the missing h was also missing t. "Birday" maybe they like birdwatching? bird hunting? bird eating?
wv: nogednes. There is nogednes in misspelled cakes.
....there's so many things wrong with these cakes, I don't even know where to begin.
Arun is a real name... However, who wants to bet that first one was for Lisa?
Just GREAT.
Here I *got up* after a night of not REALLY sleeping at ALL because of hearing odd & scary sounds and feeling spooked and edgy and in a foggy-headed, sleep-deprived mode RIGHT out of the gate
*takes deep breath*
...and now THIS.
All I can say is , So THIS is the kind of DAY it's going to be, RIGHT?
What I see on the last cake is "UR THE BEST ARUW"---which could be taken so many ways, like in a sarcastic tone, as though what they MEANT to say was: ("SO you think)you are the best, are you?"--which isn't even grammatically correct...so they couldn't POSSIBLY have meant that!
There are moisture droplets inside the cover of the "Bathday" cake.
Coincidence? I think not. And THAT is a scary thought, right there.
On the "th20" cake, I have been wondering if that might have been intended to be the name "Thao."
Why the heck NOT?!!!
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My personal fave:
"dyslexic cherry top on."
And that wasn't even ON a cake!!
THAT is the way YOU spelled
"making my day"! So, thanks!
=^e.@^=
Sorry, Aaron/Arun, but it looks to me that this cake is for Beth, possibly to share with Aruw. And anyway, my money's on it having been ordered for Erin in the first place.
Today is my little girl's birthday. We plan to wreck our own cake later on.
But this spread of birthday themed wrecks is just right to get us in the mood to bake!
I used to think I was pretty computer savvy, but this one has me completely stumped. What the heck is the "wv:" some use at the end of their comments?
When I see WV, I think: West Virginia. Maybe these posters are just proud of their state... :)
Thanks from tx:
Sarah said...
"Hmmm...my daughter hates taking a bath with a passion."
****
Okay...
Then why not just let her take it WITHOUT a passion?
(Sorry--it's my inner Groucho Marx coming out.)
==^~.-^=
Hey! *I'M* Beth! They jilted me out of cake! How dare they?
"Arun" is actually an Indian name, so that bit of the cake might be correct ...
th20! lmao!
Ha. I loved the happy bathday one. That made me laugh so hard.
I thought the Aaron cake read...
Up the Best Aquw
Drappy Bethday. Thanks for the first laugh of the day, every day!
Nanny said...
"How in the world could you leave off the B especially since there is SPACE for it????"
*****
I don't know why, but this really got me giggling uncontrollably (I have my not-enough-sleep excuse, mind you).
So forgive me (chuckle), but doesn't any cake (snort) start out with SPACE first... and, er, the letters put on accordingly?
=^.?.^=
to be fair, maybe Bathday is a holiday in Bath, UK. Mwahaha!
Hee. As someone who has endured a Jewish upbringing, my immediate thought on seeing the first one was "is that a cake celebrating a Brit Milah!??"
For those fortunate enough to not be familiar with that term... well, just be thankful. ;)
That's great Wakko, but your A looks like a 2...
@Dancingsmartypants
I think the "WV" notes are when people read the 'words' generated by the 'word verication' part of their comment (the little nonsense word you have to input to make sure you're not a bot), and come up with clever definitions for them, usually relevant to their comment or to the post.
Hope that clears it up for you. :)
How on earth did that B flip over like that? It's still perfect and has no blue icing that I can see
How hard is it to spell birthday? Apparently, very hard. For the wreckerator, the person who wrote the order or both.
@DancingSmartyPants - It stands for word verification. Google's word verification is usually something that's not a real word, but is pronounceable as such, so people like to make up definitions for the fun ones.
Really? It never ceases to amaze me how some people can actually be so 'unaware' of what they are doing. I guess they just really don't take any pride in their job.
Thanks Anonymous and Bridgete for clearing that up! It was driving me crazy...
wv: epandyn
giving up hope on figuring out an acronym.
I had no idea what "wv" meant, so I epandyned the whole idea of trying. :)
You know, it might really BE Bathday.
This all reminds me of the text of an old greeting card by Sandra Boynton:
Hippo birdie two ewes,
Hippo birdie two ewes,
Hippo birdie, deer ewe,
Hippo birdie two ewes.
I don't think the "B" cake counts, since the "B" from Birthday is actually floating away on one of the balloons (rather appropriately actually...LOL).
What does "th2o" mean? I haven't tripped across that one yet.
Maybe the "Happy Bathday" recipient usually takes a shower? Baths can be special occasions too!
Are these ones ALL professional? I mean I know it's a rule but seriously? I could lay icing better with my, well...any part of me really.
Way too funny! Thanks for the laugh!
I think the next to the last cake was meant to say: " You are the best around." But who knows.........
@CarrieP:
Actually, it looks like an "a" --in this particular font/typeface/whatever.
See? "a" not "2"
Anyway, there are bigger fish to be appalled at here, so we can agree 2 disagree, and c2ll it A d2y.
=^~.-^=
Classic. Totally classic. This belongs in the greatest wrecks! One of your best posts ever.
I thought th20 was maybe Theo with the e backwards and of course missing the capital T.
wv: agited. I tend to get pretty agited when wreckerators misspell a simple word like "birthday".
The th20 cake looks disgusting - is it a mustard cake?
Thank you for another lesson to use with Jr. Hi about the importance of spelling and legible handwriting!
On the butterfly cake -- is it the 'r' that is missing, or perhaps a 'c'?
Kinda takes you on a different path...
Oh, now I've gone and done a spit take all over my desk. How can you pick a favorite amongst these? Thanks for a great post, you guys!
Hilarious!! I continue to be amazed as well. I Love It!!!
I rather like Bethday. I think I shall have to start celebrating this... (my name is Beth). Then I also got to thinking, one could add a "C" to the one with the missing R, and end up with Happy Bitchday. Yup, that would be good, too.
I read your blog daily, but don't post often. Just had to say that I laughed out loud today. My co-workers wonder what's so funny about numbers, but it's a welcome break! Keep up the good work!
I have to admit, that I have committed the "Bithday" error on a cake I made for my father. In my defense, I was 10 at the time and just starting to learn how to pipe cursive writing.
On the one with the missing "B", the "B" is actually somehow stuck in the balloons to the left...so not a total wreck I suppose :)
Not only were the cakes wrecks - each and every one of them - they also misspelled birthday. It's like the apathy applies to everything.
On the happy birday diane cake, one of the balloon strings does not even lead to its balloon. That whole cake just screams "I don't. Give. A crap." Try a little harder! Use a capital letter for a proper name!
Anonymous said...
"... I could lay icing better with my, well...any part of me really."
Good! Can I watch?
i believe the "th20" is a dyslexic version of "20th" ....hence the original comment!
great wrecks!!
*Sigh* That's bad. This last Saturday I ran to our local Albertson's bakery to grab a cake for my daughter's 8th birthday. (I know I'm lame, but we've been painting the house, etc..blah blah) So, picked up a premade cake and asked if they'd pipe, "YOU'RE 8!" on it.
I got back YOUR 8...I looked at the cake and then looked at the woman and said "Are YOU sure you want me to take this?" She looked at me as if I was daft. So, I told her she used the wrong YOUR...blank stare. You need a comma and re... OH Light Bulb moment.
Shaunery
The cake missing the "y" actually looks photoshopped. I can see a blurry outline of a "y" a the cake.
Or perhaps the decorator spelled it right, then thought "Oh wait, there's no 'y.' The 'a' is long!" and then smudged the "y" out.
Looks like the bath day of he last cake recipient does not happen very often, & thus all their long suffering friends are celebrating the great occasion.
OY! Whether that cake was for Aaron or Arun, I think the decorator started out sober(so pretty around the edges, no?)and had repeatedly hit the hard stuff by the time they got to the writing bit. Sheesh!
Kathy
I can't tell you how many times I've heard it pronounced "birthay" - especially by the host of a local children's show that ran when I was a kid, who every morning would read a list of names and then wish them all a "Happy Birthay!"
*LOL* Wow ... although, I will admit to laughing more at the mental image of his eyes bugging out. :O)
I also felt the need to point out that there was no missing "A" on any of those cakes..
@The Boob Nazi....I just had to laugh at your post. You may have checked it for misspelled words, but you still missed a WRONG word! You didn't "doubled checked" your post, you "double checked" it! Only one D for Double! Thanks for the laugh! :)
Absolutely unbelievable! The handwriting on poor Alexis' cake is atrocious.
Double Bonus - the missing H cak is missing the T also.
wv: riosses
The riosses are masquerading as clouds.
"Happy Bathday" is actually a really good Japanese toiletries brand. http://www.happybathday.net/
I doubt the wreckreator knew that, but with the roses and everything it'd be perfect!
The butterfly cake would have been a beautiful cake if it hadn't been for the misspelling. Geez!!! I think some of these bakers might want to consider a career change, but then who would mess up cakes for our amusement?
On the cake with the missing B, it looks as if poor little B jumped onto a nearby balloon...alphabet acrobatics?
These are "professional" cakes?
It's a sad, sad world.
Oh. My. Gosh. These are hilarious. As always Cake Wrecks, you have totally made my day. I will NOT be missing tomorrow's post!
Regarding the one missing a "B" - I think they actually misspelled Earth Day :)
I'm really starting to think some of these wrecks are a pro-am collaboration. Some are so beautifully decorated but have truly dreadful writing that I think (I hope) that someone bought them from the case along with a tube of do-it-yourself piping and went at it. I can't believe even Walmart (aka the Angry Bear/Mickey cake of yesterday) would allow someone that untalented behind the bakery counter. I would seriously question their sanitary practices.
Your blog is the best. It's one of the few things I read online that consistently makes me laugh out loud... and a lot. My neighbors probably think I'm schizophrenic. Keep up the good work!
I want to commission a cake that just says "HAPPY" on it just for you.
Wow! A whole day just to celebrate me! I''m so honored!
Is it just me, or do misspelled cakes also make me wonder if they forgot... I dunno, to wash their hands or add eggs to the batter, or either, neither, both, something else 'forgotten', etc... Know what I'm saying here? It's seems more than trivial and makes me question the whole thing.
While there are drugs I can take for this sort of paranoia, I choose to come here, instead. ;)
Validation?... Anyone? BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!
When you mentioned at the top of the post you would try to find cakes with every letter missing, I thought you certainly couldn't find a missing B! I was pleasantly shocked that you actually did! As always, thanks for the laughs!
My father is from New York and still has a bit of his accent; thus, each year on Dec. 30, I am treated to the "Happy Birthay" song. That sans-D cake? Shoulda been mine.
Just HOW did they manage to forget the B in the last one???
I'd say now I've seen it all, but apparently there's more to come... that's actually kind of frightening when you think about it.
Every day is "Bethday" in my house!
First, the "dyslexic cherry on top," and then the missing "B." I think I just herniated my diaphragm.
To be completely fair the "Happy irthday" one DOES have the "B" it's just flipped over and on top of the yellow balloon on the left of the cake. Though, how they did that I'm just not quite sure.
Anybody?
Yiskah (highly confused but somehow slightly impressed)
Well you know, Bathday is missing an 'I'.... :)=)
No way! That's awesome. I had no idea that people had misspelled "birthday" in so many different ways!
I'm confused, though...who's Aaron? All I see is UR THE BESTARUW and then Happy Bethday.
WV: butsess
I hope some decorators got their butsess fired for these awful mistakes!
But irthday is a national holiday! I hear it's on April 22nd.
I don't suppose the one with the B left off was in honor of Earth Day, by any chance.
@boob nazi
you spelled 'double' wrong...
"hahaha these are hilarious. I mean, how hard is it to spell such a common word! (I just doubled checked this five times to make sure everything was spelled correctly.("
So Owl wrote… and this is what he wrote:
HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY.
Pooh looked on admiringly.
“I’m just saying ‘A Happy Birthday’,” said Owl carelessly.
“It’s a nice long one,” said Pooh, very much impressed by it.
~excerpt from "Eeyore's Birthday" by A.A. Milne.
I once made a large sign (letters at least 18" tall) for a friend. HAPPY BITHDAY CINDY It's easier to do than you think! Amazingly, I was the only one that noticed.
The missing be is stuck to the balloon to the left of the word.
The "Happy Brithday" had me doubled over in laughter-- I kept thinking it was a mis-spelling of a "bris" (ie when Jewish boys get "snipped" the 8th day after they are born). The kid mightn't be so happy about it, but I guess he's not yet eating cake...
WV: mallitt: someone who vowed taking a mallet to spelling errors, and got that wrong too...
Thank you for posting so many wrecks on one post. I'm always a little sad to only find one wreck on a post. So this one makes me happy. I hope John's eye-twitching subsides by tomorrow... :D
Today is MY birthday (however you spell it) and this was a very nice surprise. :)
As someone who consistently spelled her name "Heater" throughout grades K-2, I don't know if I am one to judge...
Someone with my name! High-five, fellow Lia.
... That's all I have to say, sorry.
Bear in mind that until rather recently, bathing was a twice-a-year occurance for most people, so perhaps that last cake is a harkening-back to a simpler time, when bathing actually was a celebration-worthy occasion.
Or not. (blinkblink)
Mir said...
"... misspelled cakes make me wonder if they forgot...to wash their hands or add eggs to the batter, or either, neither, both, something else...
Validation?... Anyone?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yeah. OH,YEAH...
Consider yourself validated (while I consider myself flabbergasted). It's sort of like when you have to use a pub-yick bathroom, and THERE THEY ARE (!!!) on the wall: ACTUAL signs suggesting: "EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS AFTER USING THE FACILITIES."
Classy, huh???
I swear, by the looks of some of this swill, it's truly a dazzling wonder that some of these places can manage to stay in business at all.
(WHERE in blazes do they FIND these "decorators," Under rocks???)
The UP side of all of this is that we have Cake Wrecks for our viewing pleasure!!!
Wreck on, indeed!!!
=^~.~^=
Oh now I really and truly think I should NOT order my birthday cake lol. I still have two more weeks to go so I may be better off baking my own. That butterfly cake looks like one of the butterflies ate the T and the others are circling around the other letters. Happy Bathday.. boy I hope that wasn't a hint to the persons hygiene or lack thereof. Lovely to see the lack of spell checkers at the bakery.
Happy Bathday must have been Saturday. That was bath day in the my family when I was little.
Jim
For my son's 2nd birthday I ordered him a cake that was to say "Happy Terrible Twos Christian" and instead it just said "Terrible 2's Christian." Boy was I mad and that damn cake has cursed him and those terrible "2's" have last a year and a half!
I think the last one actually spells "Birthday", but the 'r' is very skinny and there's not dot on the 'i'. Otherwise ... dear God!
Linda said...
I think the last one actually spells "Birthday", but the 'r' is very skinny and there's not dot on the 'i'. Otherwise ... dear God!
I came here to point out exactly that and read through all 111 comments thinking "I can't believe nobody has pointed that out"... then the very last comment beat me to it!
It does look a lot like an "a" but if you compare it to the other "a" in "Birthday", you can see that it is actually a cursive "ir" that is squished up.
Maybe "Happy Bithday" means your family and friends hired the Mos Eisley Cantina band for a private gig?
I cracked up over the sneaky flower-clouds. They stole the show.
Actually, you can see where the "B" has been photoshopped out, if you look close enough :)
I found the B on the "happy irthday" cake. It fell off and is stuck on the yellow rose next to its spot.
You know, out of all the misspellings I've seen on Cakewrecks, "th20" is probably my favorite. It's simple charm just strikes me as being even better than "Happy Falker Satherhood."
I mean, you HAVE to explain "Falker Satherhood" with drugs. There's just no other way. And drugs are sort of a boring explanation. But "th20" could be caused by anything, and it's fun imagining the possibilities.
The first cake seems correct. It says "Happy Brithday", as in brith milah, ברית מילה, Jewish circumcision. Isn't it obvious? Little Lia, she's having a circumcision!
that is soooo funny!
Mikewind: that was my thought too, except for one minor "technicality"... Jewish girls don't get circumcised! So it was either a mis-spelling of "birthday" that gets snickers from Jewish readers, or is even worse than we thought, and poor Liam's losing more than just his foreskin...
"or is even worse than we thought, and poor Liam's losing more than just his foreskin..."
When I wrote "Little Liam, she's having a circumcision!", I had in mind what certain other people in the world do.
But apparently, "Liam" is a boy's name, not a girl's. Shucks; that really steals half the fun, doesn't it?
geez, one of your best posts ever. oh the fun. the pain.
great job you there.
cheers from Hungary.
OMG, Jen I have NEVER laughed harder than at your comment that the "th20" was like "the dyslexic cherry on top". BWAHAHAHA! I could not figure it out - I was wondering if it was something to do with water (H2O?) . . . and then I read your comment . . . and burst into uncontrollable laughter. Thanks a million - my abs really needed a workout like that!
-Candice
OK, now it's EVEN FUNNIER b/c I just noticed you said "dyslexic cherry top on." BWAHAHAHA! x100
Jen, your hilarity is absolutely BOUNDLESS!!!!!
-Candice
wv: rallywee
It's hard to stop laughing and rally on with the day, but rallywee will! :)
The first cake was mine from last year and yes my name is LIA. The little heart over the I though slayed me. My mother was furious when she picked up the cake but my father said I would love it being misspelled...and he was right!
And high five to the other LIA out there!
And tomorrow is my birthday and we are having ice cream cake with no writing!
Lia: so I was right the first time, when I said you were a woman named "Lia" getting a circumcision. :P Where did I get the "m" from and turn your name into "Liam"? Sorry!
Nessie said...
"First, the "dyslexic cherry on top," and then the missing "B." I think I just herniated my diaphragm"
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Heh heh...
In the original post, it actually reads: "dyslexic cherry top on."
Good luck with your diaphragm, dear.
I hope I didn't just make it worse, but I didn't want you to miss out on the genius afoot there.
I'm sure a gazillion people have pointed that before me, but Arun is a perfectly legit hindi name (it means the color of the rising sun or something of the kind).
It's my birthday today.... I hope that I don't encounter any of these wrecks!
The B seems to have jumped on the yellow balloon in the missing B cake. It also looks backwards...I wonder how that was achieved?
Poor Judi, they left the C off her cake. One more thing to complain about.
Remember that bi-otch is one letter removed from bio-tech.
Okay, I can see a Happy Brithday cake if 2 conditions are met: 1) the honoree is male and 2) the honoree is exactly 8 days old.
"Ur the best Aruw DrBody Bethday"?
.........seriously?
.........SERIOUSLY?
If I had to guess, the cake for "Arun" actually is for someone named Arun and it was made in India where "Hinglish" is in common usage.
Small and nitpicky, but "th2o" says "thao", which is a Hmong name :) The A is just wonky. Not that it excuses the rest of the cake...
Sometimes I think these cakes are from foreign lands where English is not their first language and they are trying to spell phonetically and their accent gets in the way. Really...to test this theory go back and read the cakes out loud. See?
Ok, I don't agree with that last one being on Cake Wrecks. At first, I couldn't even figure out where the mistake was, and then I saw that it was possible to intrepret it as saying "Happy Bathday" but when I look at that, I can very clearly see the corner of the cursive "r". It looks to me simply that the I and r were piped too close together and the I wasn't dotted. But that's spelled right. Look at how it's piped. That's not how you do an A. That's very clearly an I and an R.
These just rock... unbelievable. I still think "Nappy Blob Blob" is the reigning king, though!!
I LOL'ed way too hard when you mentioned the th20 the dyslexic cherry on top. Wow.
You said you didn't have any Earth Day cakes...I beg to differ. Just grab the "Happy irthday" cake for next year. Get it? "irthday!" :o)
-Vanessa
Ha, sorry to ruin your fun, but the B was not left off. It's there on the lid, camouflaged by the yellow icing balloons
happy bathday. we should all celebrate that.
use soap :)
Poor diane....must have been somone who disliked her that made this hideous creation for her! lol xx
There weren't any missing the A...
Word Verification: scionsim
A ysdlecisc version of scionism, which is either a made-up word/version of the word scion or a bad misspelling of zionism.
bwuahaha XD for the "th20" cake, I didn't realize the joke at first (wth does T H 20 mean?!) but as soon as I did, I almost cried laughing!!
ps- love the comment about the missing 'b' having some hanky panky with the balloon sperm lol