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"Enjoy."Admit it, Adam L: you see Cthulhu wearing Mickey Mouse ears in a spider cocoon, too.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
"Enjoy."Admit it, Adam L: you see Cthulhu wearing Mickey Mouse ears in a spider cocoon, too.
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Wow, you're right! I do see Cthulhu in a cocoon wearing Micky Mouse ears...
It sort of reminds me of Fudgy the Whale and those other great Carvel cakes (I'm talking to you, Cookiepuss) that served any occasion.
FIRST COMMENT!
It's Dad's fuzzy slipper and cigar.
I see Noah's ark on top of a big mammoth goat. Is this cake for Noah?
That looks like a really odd shaped tornado.
Often with squinting and head tiliting I can see what the cake wrecker was aiming for...yeah, I have nothing besides a flock of crow's feet and a crick in my neck!
It's a rowboat on the ocean - where the prow broke off the rowboat and the ocean has a mustache, in addition to mickey mouse ears.
I'm guessing it's a surfboard catching the "big" one?
If only I saw Cthulhu. I see Davy Jones. And not the Monkees Davy Jones, the other one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones_(Pirates_of_the_Caribbean)
I was thinking blue fuzzy puppy dog slipper tied to a poo dirigible. Anyone else see that?
wv: Boollys: I wish those boollys would stop scaring the poo out of the decorators. We have enough poo cakes as it is.
But why is the cocooned Cthulhu being transported by a blimp? Going home? Watching a football game?
These are the kind of questions that keep me up at night.
Definitely Noah's ark, with an angry sheep drowning in the flood.
"Happy Falker Satherhood" is looking better all the time.
I'm sorry, there are words? All I could do was stare at the mustachioed mouse in the sea. Being crushed by something suspicious.
It looks like the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland surrounded by a "BIG" cloud of smoke.
Dad apparently likes clubbing blue baby seals....
its a BIG blue poop with a face!
It's obviously depicting dad hitting a poodle over the head with a boat oar.
I have nothing witty to add. This one hurts my head.
so what is that supossed to be?
As Joel from MST3K would say, "...the hell?"
I have absolutely no clue whatsoever. Maybe half of the state of Tennessee on a blue rat?
What is this? All I see is a giant poop floating on ... river water? a blue butterfly? Something out of Lord of the Rings?
It's some sort of Stargate like portal into a world where wrecks like that make sense, of course!
It's clearly the Mayflower after its masts broke off from crashing into Mickeythulhu.
Does it say "die" ??!
-Susana
It is obviously a poo shaped blimp floating on a cloud that has the shape of a goat's head forming in it. It is a reference to the old Swedish folklore of Falker Slatherhood, a celebration of male fertility. I can't believe you didn't catch that. :)
OK, the blue thing is a slug with a mouse face. I have no idea what the brown part is. This cannot possibly be from a professional baker, can it?????
--KATP
Wow, usually I have an idea... today, I have nothing. Checkmate, Cake 'Maker', Checkmate.
I can't even guess.
You know what's lamer than someone posting "First Comment," Lydia? Someone who posts it when they're not even first. Well done. ;)
a.k.a. "Mr. Hankey has the blues".
OK, first time commenting. It's a hotdog and a blue twinkie
wv sporlega, Swedish name for a blue twinkie
OK, the whole family got into it and here is our list of serious guesses:
A blimp
a fuzzy slipper
A beaver with a big brown tail
beach with water
the end of a paddle in the water, the black squiggles are eddies.
The P family
WTFIZAT!?? I can't even begin to fathom a guess I mean really WTFizat?
It's clearly a blue and brown Mothra.
I see a blue hamster and one of this big ole turkey legs you get at the fair. Yep, this definitely reminds me of good ole Dad.
Wow. Um. WTF is that thing? That's um...uh...okay then. Oh I have an idea but it's too gross even for this blog. More like a South Park insult sort of thing since they've got one about a frozen feminine product. Nerds will know what I mean...
@Lydia @9:41: fail!
When asked, "What does this look like?" my 3-year old said "Cake." She seems to be going through a literal phase. At least she recognized what it is. My 6-year old's response was "A goat under water and the brown stuff is dirt." I think their guesses were better than mine. " I have no idea. Personally I would prefer a boring, plain cake to this.
Well, my daughter says it's a boat cake, so I'm going with that.
a Saturday wreck. bonus!
Well see, the wreckerator got the 80's hit movie "Big" confused with another great 80's flick, "The Neverending Story." So clearly this is Falcor fleeing the Nothing. What this has to do with Father's Day, I can't say.
Ooh, another Rorschach Cake Wreck. I love these!
Um... I see a butterfly. Darn, I only ever see butterflies in these things.
It looks like a blue cat to me--not enough tentacle for a Cthulhoid.
My guesses are.: 1) A giant knife cutting up a poor sad blue Cthulhu-ish blob with bear ears. 2) A comparison between a foot ball and a very small creature, possibly a guinea pig.
WV. mizeri, The headache I'm getting from trying to figure out what this cake is is giving me so much mizeri.
I've no idea what it's meant to be but wacky backy springs to mind
Michele Cullen said...
"...Maybe half of the state of Tennessee on a blue rat?"
~~~
Good, good...but let's try this, too: how about half the state of Conciousness on crack?
=^e.e^=
I feel a sort of heart-tugging urge to go and scoop up the poor little ick-faced thing before it gets euthanised.
>^=.=^<
Its the rowboat from POTC on Stranger Tides and the black squiggles in the water is the mermaid coming to take dear old daddy down into the deep blue sea!!
y'all funny : )
This is an extremely good example of a bad example...
wv - efilik: Efilik the frosting my tongue will turn blue.
had to google that one. my geek cred. slipped a notch :)
sendingtheclowns said...
Michele Cullen said...
"...Maybe half of the state of Tennessee on a blue rat?"
~~~
Good, good...but let's try this, too: how about half the state of Conciousness on crack?
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AWESOME! A tip of the hat to you, sendingtheclowns.
It's clearly a blue Bichon Frise that just got caught chewing dad's steak, hence the foamy substance around the edges....
WV: crespe
Dad likes his steak a little crespe around the edges, not foaming in dog drool.
Jen, I'm surprised you didn't realize that this cake was photographed UPSIDE-DOWN. When you turn it right side up, it's obviously the rare Portuguese Mustache Slug, on top of a pedestal engraved with "The Grand Ruler of All Sluggydom" in Mustacheslug-ese.
-zacharyK
wv - ansingly. In ansingly day, the Portuguese Mustache Slug can produce enough mustache wax to fill an average-size refrigerator.
So many fails, not enough time.
In other news: My WV is ingslamy
Surfing the wild guess:
Under his treacherous board,
Dad's sinking visage.
It's a cricket bat and the great blue rodent mascot of doom.
You know how sometimes you can't figure out what it is suppose to be, and you read all the comments, and it's like "oh, yeah, that's it", and you go back to the picture and blow it up, and immediately recognize what it is? Well, that didn't work. Enlarged, it looks like a football and a blue Lhasa Apso. I'm sure it is the "Big" that is confusing us.
An airship crashing in the ocean???
@ Kati (5:18PM):
Two things:
1.: Thanks (!!) for the hat-tip; did you use your Santa hat? ;)
2.: If you don't mind my asking, what is that adorable creature that you're holding in your photo?
It's very one-of-a-kindish, from what I can see of it.
=^~.~^=
I see a caterpillar next to a mud puddle.
WV: blogiumb. The numbness that sets in after reading too many blogs. "I'd have come up with a better description of that cake, but I'm blogiumb."
I keep looking for the "like" button for comments. I think all the guesses are funnier than the cake, this time. And yeah, I'm with the person who said that even after reading the comments, this cake is still a total mystery.
wv: marru. Isn't that the Japanese cat all over YouTube?
@ Fluffy Cow at 5:57
Your WV will live on in ingslamy.
I keep coming back to stare at this particular disaster, and then to the comments to see if someone has figured it out. It sure isn't going to be me. I keep thinking perhaps the brown part is a beer stein or coffee mug but I am drawing a blank on the Mickey ears with catfish whiskers....
Ok, I'll play -- Dad is an incompetent surfer, who likes to wear mouse ears and who never has to see a dentist because he gets his teeth cleaned by remoras.
What is a 'day Dad' -- a male daycare center operator? That would make the pronoun wrong, but at least it is in keeping with the extraneous quotes and would explain the missing comma.
Do the extraneous quotes around "Big" offer a clue? Something is "big" on the cake. Hmmm. A big flea on Blue from Blue's Clues? I can't help thinking that's a "big" football. Do any teams have legless rats as their mascots?
A boat and a catfish?
It is either Aretha Franklin's inauguration hat or a snail.
I'm almost certain the blue log is a mouse; I can't imagine what the black icing would be if not mouse ears and whiskers. Given that and the fluffy white edging on the text, I think the brown lozenge is meant to be a thought bubble. Whoever ordered the cake thought it would be funny or ironic to have the message about their father's "big" day delivered by a (tiny) mouse. There's probably an inside joke in there somewhere.
"rare Portuguese Mustache Slug"
now, that's just dang funny!!! :D
-Barbara Anne
There must be some significance to the brown part having grooves on the bottom with a slab of scalloped-edged smooth on top.
Log cabin???
Which means the other thing could possibly be Big Blue from the X-Files.
That would explain how the left side of the white frosting seems to be magically elevating into infinity.
The whole thing is an X-File
WV: metscru - The guys who roll out the tarp at Shea Stadium
boat on water?
I passed this around, and my 4 year old thinks it is rain. My husband thinks maybe it is a boat (after staring at it for a long time). I kind of wonder if it is supposed to be a wooden sign and then a catfish because of the strange whiskers, but it really looks more like a blue blob with a messy mouse face. I also saw the "dIE" someone referenced in the earlier posts.
Maybe it's a shoe? (Dad has been called in to step on the "big" mouse?)
I...... I.... Ouch! Head hurts.......
Mustachioed mouse on a blue Twinkie is all I can come up with.
I see a hamster proudly posing beside a very muddy hot tub.
It's a poorly done JAWS themed cake. The brown area is the boat, and the blue area is the water/shark biting into the boat. The "Big" Day is a reference to the line, "I think we're going to need a bigger boat." Maybe Dad is a fisherman?