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"Tyler Perry's Temptation" is ostensibly a serious-minded offering from the one-man filmmaking empire — it contains nothing in the way of broad slapstick and his infamous Madea character is nowhere to be seen — but you wouldn't know that based on the reaction that it got from the audience that I saw it with. Even though they were presumably there because of a genuine interest in seeing it and not simply out of professional obligation, the combination of shameless melodramatics and ham-fisted moralizing inspired more laughs from that audience than most straightforward comedies of recent vintage.
I can't say that I blame them because the film is flat-out ludicrous from beginning to end. And while it might not be Perry's most excruciating cinematic effort date — especially not in a world where "Madea Goes to Jail" is allowed to exist — it is definitely wretched enough to be in the running for that dishonor.
Take one of those cheesy direct-to-video erotic thrillers from the early '90s that kept Tanya Roberts and Shannon Tweed in cigarette money, remove virtually all the erotic content and replace it with hard-core preachiness and a storyline that fans of "Fifty Shades of Grey" would find to be trite and poorly developed and you have "Tyler Perry's Temptation," which sounds like the name of a designer fragrance and which does indeed stink.
Our heroine is Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), a nice young country girl who marries childhood sweetheart Brice (Lance Gross) and moves away with him to the big, bad world of Washington, D.C., with the dream of one day becoming a marriage counsellor. For the time being, she is working for a high-end dating service and has designed a compatibility quiz that, to hear everyone talk about it, is perhaps the single most revolutionary document to come along in the personal relationship industry since the legendary Massey Pre-Nup.
This questionnaire catches the interest of Harley (Robbie Jones), a potential new client for the firm who is described as "the third biggest social media inventor since Zuckerberg." He asks Judith to use her insight into the human condition to help put together a software program with the power of a thousand "Cosmo" quizzes. Oh yeah, Harley is also filthy rich and extra-hunky and before long, it becomes clear that his interest in Judith is more than professional, especially when he learn that Brice is the only man she has ever been with.
At first, Judith declines his suave advances — she loves her husband and, as for that other stuff, "I watch HBO — I know I'm not missing anything" — but his charms eventually begin to win her over, especially when it becomes clear that Brice is taking her for granted and no longer pays her the attention she deserves. Finally, while on a business trip to New Orleans, Harley takes advantage of her and afterwards she vows never to see him again, while perhaps silently promising herself to add Cinemax to her cable package.
But, of course, she can't get enough of him, so she embarks on the inevitable downward spiral of sex, drugs and wild parties, most of which are conveyed largely by osmosis in order to conform to the parameters of the PG-13 rating. Both Brice and her mother (Ella Joyce), a preacher with a few dark secrets of her own, try to rescue her from what her mother considers to be Harley's satanic influence but it is to no avail.
It all leads, as such plotlines must, to an over-the-top conclusion in which the good are rewarded, the evil are punished and lines like, "He's gonna take you straight to Hell," are delivered in the most hilariously histrionic manner possible. At times it seems that Judith might benefit more from an exorcist than a couples therapist.
There are some good actors on hand — remember Jurnee Smollett-Bell from her extraordinary performance as the little girl at the center of "Eve's Bayou" (1997)? — but you wouldn't know that from the terrible work Perry elicits from them. (As Judith's boss, Vanessa Williams delivers a French accent so dubious that Chico Marx might have questioned its veracity.) Then there is Kim Kardashian, who turns up in a supporting role as one of Judith's co-workers. She is hardly the worst thing in the film but it is perhaps ironic that someone so famous for her curves could deliver her lines so flatly.
While Tyler Perry is to be admired for creating an enormously successful cinematic cottage industry catering primarily to an underserved segment of the moviegoing public, the trouble with him is that he is a terrible filmmaker and even though his output is prolific enough to make Steven Soderbergh seem lazy by comparison, he seems to be regressing with each effort. With the exception of "For Colored Girls" (2010), which was not a very good movie but which at least demonstrated a recognizable streak of artistic ambition, his films are hopelessly amateurish affairs in which the only apparent direction for every aspect of the production — screenplay, performances, even establishing shots — seems to be, "Louder, Broader!"
On stage, where most of his productions (including this one) were initially produced, this approach can work because performances need to be bigger in order to be seen and heard. Film, on the other hand, is more intimate, but Perry is still straining to reach the cheap seats. In this case, the results are so grotesque that I found myself recoiling at the too-muchness of what I was witnessing. Imagine Ken Russell without the subtlety and quiet dignity (not to mention the talent) and you have Perry's directorial approach in an exceptionally hacky nutshell.
Even if Perry had toned things down a notch or 12, it probably would not have helped matters much because "Temptation" is one of those movies in which absolutely nothing works except as camp. "Tyler Perry's Temptation" is an awful, awful film and while it is easy to mock and dismiss, it is also kind of a shame to behold.
Perry does have a knack for connecting with audiences in ways that most filmmakers can only aspire to and to see him waste that ability on junk like this is sad. According to IMDb, Perry's next film will be "A Madea Christmas," a holiday extravaganza that will pair his Madea character with the equally off-putting Larry the Cable Guy. And yet, as dreadful as that sounds, "Temptation" is so bad that it could actually turn out to be as Perry's cinematic high-water mark for the year.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Judith
Lance Gross as Brice
Kim Kardashian as Ava
Vanessa Williams as Janice
Robbie Jones as Harley
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This injury usually occurs in sports where cutting, side-stepping, or pivoting are required. Often, there is forceful separation of the legs or twisting of the toe outward. Signs and symptoms include pain and tenderness in the inner thigh region. |
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Legendary Railroader Casey Jones Smiling in Grave - Roosevelt Island F Train Subway Service Back to Normal This Weekend
Today is Friday and I am happy to report that there are no F Train weekend subway advisories for Roosevelt Island from the MTA as there has been for the last 4 weekends. Let's see how long this lasts. Legendary railroad man Casey Jones and Johnny Cash are pleased, at least for this weekend.
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Come all you rounders if you wanna hear the story about a brave engineerThe skipper from Gilligans Island, Alan Hale Jr., played Casey Jones in this old TV series.
Casey Jones was the roller's name on a 68 wheeler course he won his fame
Caller called Casey bout half past four he kissed his wife at the station door
He climbed in the cabin with his orders in his hand
Said this is the trip to the Promised Land
Casey Jones climbed in the cabin Casey Jones orders in his hand
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President Barack Obama's emphatic gay-rights advocacy in his inaugural address thrilled many activists. Yet almost immediately came the questions and exhortations as to what steps should be taken next.
"I was very moved," said Jon Davidson, legal director of the gay-rights group Lambda Legal. "But there's a lot more to do in the four years to come. … It's not like everything is fine."
Items on the activists' wish list include appointment of America's first openly gay Cabinet member, steps to curtail unequal treatment of same-sex couples in the military and an executive order barring federal contractors from workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
The paramount priority for many, however, is same-sex marriage. Never before Monday had an inaugural address conveyed support for marriage equality, and activists now hope the Obama administration will take concrete steps to follow up, including escalated engagement in pending Supreme Court cases.
"Why wouldn't they decide to stand on the right side of history?" Davidson asked.
Obama broached the broader issues in his speech by classifying the Stonewall gay-rights riots of 1969 as a civil rights milestone on par with those in the struggles on behalf of blacks and women.
Then, alluding to marriage, he said, "Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights, termed the address "perhaps the most important gay-rights speech in American history."
Among Obama's in-person audience were the Supreme Court justices who will be hearing oral arguments in March on two same-sex marriage cases. They will be considering both California's constitutional ban on gay marriage and provisions of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act denying federal recognition to same-sex marriages, which are now legal in nine states and the District of Columbia.
The Obama administration already has said those DOMA provisions are unconstitutional and is no longer defending them, leaving that task to a legal team hired by Republicans in the House.
Gay-rights activists say the Justice Department could take further steps in that case, notably by filing papers with the high court aimed at placing an even higher burden on DOMA's defenders to justify the government's unequal treatment of same-sex couples.
Activists also hope the administration will file a friend-of-the-court brief in the California case, joining with those who argue that the 2008 Proposition 8 ballot measure banning gay marriage in the state violated constitutional guarantees of equal protection.
Fred Sainz of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group, said filing such a brief would be a "natural extension of the inaugural remarks," which he depicted as "an incredibly eloquent equal-protection argument."
Political repercussions will probably be discussed further before the White House makes a final decision on the Supreme Court cases, Sainz said. But he suggested the administration had realized – after Obama's re-election – that advocating for same-sex marriage is "both morally right and politically right."
Obama has long portrayed himself as a gay-rights supporter and played a key role in ending the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in 2011 so gays could serve openly in the military. But only last year, after what he described as a process of "evolving," did Obama come out publicly in favor of gay marriage, and even now legally married gay couples in the military are denied some important benefits accorded to heterosexual married couples.
On Tuesday, the White House directed to the Justice Department questions about whether the administration would file a friend-of-the-court brief in the Proposition 8 case. The department declined to comment.
Meanwhile, the defenders of Prop 8 filed their opening brief with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, arguing that the justices should allow public and political debate over same-sex marriage to continue rather than impose a judicial solution.
Other opponents of same-sex marriage took note of Obama's inaugural remarks, in some cases with alarm and anger.
"Their implications are morally devastating for the definition of marriage," wrote Denny Burk, a professor of biblical studies at the undergraduate arm of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Burk, in a blog posting, contended that Obama's rationale for legalizing marriage for gays could be extended to polygamists as well.
Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage, which has campaigned against same-sex marriage in many states, criticized Obama's decision to raise the topic in his address.
"A presidential inauguration should be a time for the nation to come together," Brown said. "Instead President Obama chose to voice his support for a radical agenda advanced by some of his biggest campaign contributors to redefine marriage for everyone."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres' goal of setting a retweet record with her star-studded selfie was achieved before the Oscars telecast was even over.
During a comic bit, the Oscars host prevailed upon actor Bradley Cooper to take a picture with her and several other stars crowding around, including Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Long before midnight Sunday, the photo had been retweeted more than 2 million times, breaking a record set by President Barack Obama with the picture of him hugging First Lady Michelle Obama after his re-election in 2012.
Twitter also sent out an apology because all of the retweeting disrupted service for more than 20 minutes after 10 p.m. ET.


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Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.
All fell victim to the late British entertainer Jimmy Savile, police said, describing him Friday as a sexual predator who used his fame to find victims and deliberately targeted individuals who would not speak out against him.
A three-month police investigation yielded a staggering litany of sexual crimes: 214 offenses, including 34 rapes, over more than half a century, the majority of the victims under 18. Police say they expect the number of offenses to rise as more allegations are investigated.
A police report published Friday describes a "prolific, predatory sex offender" whose celebrity unlocked the doors of institutions across Britain, from hospitals where he served as a charity fundraiser to schools whose pupils eagerly watched his television programs — and even to the prime minister's country house, where he dined with Margaret Thatcher.
"It could be said that he groomed a nation," said Cmdr. Peter Spindler, head of the Metropolitan Police specialist crimes unit. "He was hiding in plain sight, but none of us were able to do anything about it."
The catalog of abuse provides the fullest accounting yet of the allegations against Savile, a cigar-chomping, platinum-haired TV and radio personality who died in October 2011 at age 84. Savile's elaborate funeral reflected his status as a popular entertainer and tireless charity worker, but a documentary broadcast late last year pulled the mask away, claiming that he was a serial sex offender who traded on his celebrity to prey on vulnerable children.
The subsequent police investigation more than bore out those allegations. Detectives initially believed there were between 20 and 25 victims. So far, 450 have come forward with claims against Savile — a scale of abuse police called "unprecedented in the U.K."
Child welfare experts say Savile's fame helped him achieve that grim distinction.
"Savile cunningly built his entire life around gaining access to vulnerable children," said Peter Watt of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Savile set himself up as a sinister Pied Piper; children came to him. He hosted the long-running BBC music show "Top of the Pops," which saw everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Sex Pistols perform before an audience of excited young people. Police say victims were assaulted in dressing rooms or groped during filming breaks. One victim was a teenager who said she was assaulted at the last-ever recording of the show in 2006, when Savile was nearly 80.
Savile also hosted "Jim'll Fix It," a BBC TV show on which he granted the wishes of young viewers who wrote in with cherished plans. Police said Savile would sometimes visit the letter-writers' schools, and some of the offenses took place there.
"He could do anything he wanted," said Detective Supt. David Gray, who led the police investigation. "He could turn up at a school and say 'Is anyone interested in meeting me?'"
He often visited a school for troubled girls, where pupils were allegedly offered cigarettes and trips in Savile'scar in return for sex. The flamboyant star often drove a convertible Rolls-Royce.
"He only picked on the most vulnerable," Gray said. "He was clever enough to know the ones less likely to speak out against him."
Savile also was a fundraiser for hospitals, including Leeds General Infirmary in his northern England home town and the Stoke Mandeville spinal injuries center in southern England. Police said he committed 50 assaults at 14 medical establishments, including a cancer hospice and several psychiatric hospitals. Among his victims were ill youngsters confined to bed.
Savile's charitable work raised his profile and credibility. Recently released records show he lobbied Thatcher for government donations and tax breaks for charities.
"I find it quite scary that people who had the power to stop him didn't use that power ... and he went on to do the most horrific things to people in the most awful circumstances," said Caroline Moore, who says Savileabused her as she recovered from a spinal operation at Stoke Mandeville in 1971.
Some Savile victims did speak out. Several women went to police to report Saville in 2003, 2007 and 2008, and senior prosecutor Alison Levitt said Friday that the entertainer could have been brought to justice while he was alive, if officials had pursued the allegations more vigorously.
The BBC — which has been strongly criticized for dropping an investigation into Savile's crimes shortly after this death — and several health bodies are holding their own inquiries into how Savile was able to get away with decades of abuse.
Peter Saunders of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood said authorities must be more prepared to listen to children who say they have been abused.
"I want us to forget Jimmy Savile. He is not worthy of memory," Saunders said. "But I want us to remember his many victims."


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COMMENTS: Hard to muster enthusiasm for today's game. Although Lowe improved in his last outing against the Cardinals, we're facing Carlos "Big Z" Zambrano, who might be able to single-handedly beat the Dodgers with his pitching and hitting. ("Smells like a sweep," says SoSG commenter Karina.) The Dodgers are frustratingly lacking in situational hitting, but through no fault of Erin from Beantown West and our own Alex Cora, both again braving the brutal Chicago wind chill to provide the Dodgers some positive blogger karma. Stay warm, kids!


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China is suffering its coldest winter in decades. But the chill didn't stop some 10,000 fans from lining up in three cities to get a signed copy of Li Chengpeng's latest book, Everybody in the World Knows. With 6.6 million followers on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, the former investigative journalist is one of China's most trenchant social critics — even if his latest book had thousands of words excised by censors. Yet on his book tour this month, Li was silenced by authorities who told him that he could take "no questions from readers, no talking at all — not even 'happy new year' or 'thank you.'" At a book signing in Chengdu, the southwestern Chinese city that is his hometown, Li responded to the gag order with sartorial subversion, wearing a black face mask.
Li may have been momentarily hushed, but that didn't stop his enemies from acting out. At an event in Beijing on Sunday, a man who identified himself as a Maoist tossed a wrapped kitchen knife at Li. (The weapon missed its target.) Li was also punched by another man who reportedly considered his book an attack on China itself. Soon after, a shaken Li contacted my colleague and me, wanting to talk that night in Beijing. (I have interviewed him before.) But just before we set off to see him, Li sent an apologetic text: "The police are taking me away to talk. Can't meet you anymore."
(MORE: No Laughing Matter: Parody Tweet Leads to a Detention in China)
On Jan. 15, when Li had moved on to Shenzhen — the boomtown where Deng Xiaoping unleashed his famous economic reforms — he was finally able to talk by phone. More than 3,000 people had shown up that day at his book signing, the kind of adulation an author craves. But Li was dejected. Mysterious men snapped his photo, while others yelled, "Down with traitor Li Chengpeng." His luggage, full of important documents, had gone missing. The knife-wielding man in Beijing has been released. "The excessive concentration of power in China has resulted in the law being controlled by the powerful," says Li. "If there is not even freedom of speech, then I'm not optimistic about political reform at all."
It has been just two months since China's new leader Xi Jinping became the most powerful man in the world's most populous nation. After a decade of paralysis under Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao, hopes have proliferated that Xi — a grinning, vigorous figure whose father was a reformist Communist Party elder — might prove more open to political liberalization. To expect Xi to suddenly tear down the Bamboo Curtain just weeks into a 10-year tenure is unrealistic. But beyond the lip service the new Chinese Communist Party chief has paid to tackling corruption and promoting the constitution, there's not much to indicate any major commitment toward reforming China politically. Hu himself talked an awful lot about reform when he first came to power. It didn't happen.
(MORE: Exiled Activist to China's New President: 'The Whole Nation Is Watching You')
Earlier this month, journalists at Southern Weekend, one of the most respected newspapers in the country, went on strike to protest mounting censorship. Their strike gained support from tens of thousands of Chinese, including a gaggle of pinup actresses, former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee and blogger Li. A last-minute deal brought the journalists back to the newsroom. But some have said privately that they are worried about retribution and continuing censorship. Chinese security agents have harassed celebrities who supported the Southern Weekend journalists.
The online support for Southern Weekend and the long lines at Li's book signings prove that the Chinese public expects far more from its leaders than when Hu took power in 2002. A new stratum of middle-class Chinese has more to protect and recognizes the checks on unbridled power democratic reforms can bring. "We all hope our country can be stable and wealthy," Li told TIME. "Our criticism is our expression of patriotism. We try to change, not to overthrow."
(MORE: Crusading Chinese Journalists End Their Strike, but Don't Expect Media Freedoms to Follow)
Just as Li was in Beijing for his book event, pollution in the Chinese capital soared to record hazardous levels. The pall was so toxic it far surpassed the highest notch on the yardstick the U.S. uses to measure pollution, causing American monitoring equipment in Beijing to label the pollution "beyond index." One of the reasons for the noxious air is a spike in people burning coal to keep warm during this freezing winter. Previously, Chinese authorities tended to underplay the smog, referring to it as "fog" and arguing implausibly that Beijing's air has improved every year for the past 14 years. But this horrible air was hard to ignore. Even the People's Daily, the Communist Party's mouthpiece, ran a front-page story on the pollution. The capital will eventually defrost and winds always clear away the pollution for a time. But a Beijing spring that heralds lasting political reform? Don't hold your breath.
— With reporting by Chengcheng Jiang / Beijing


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D+H To Acquire Harland Financial Services
Canadian-based Davis + Henderson Corporation is acquiring Harland Financial Services, one of the top four core banking providers in the U.S., expanding D+H's reach in the industry to the 5,400 institutions that currently use Harland's solutions, according to a statement released yesterday by D+H. The acquisition will cost D+H $1.2 billion, the statement said.
D+H said that the acquisition will help them compete in the financial services technology market as the acquisition will bring their total client base to 6,200 institutions, according to D+H. Harland is one of the four major core systems providers in the U.S. (along with Fiserv, FIS and Jack Henry) and also offers solutions for online banking and account opening, branch automation, mobile banking and commercial lending.
Davis + Henderson provides lending and payments solutions to 1,700 banks and credit unions in North America, but has not previously offered a core banking solution. HFS' core banking clients will also provide a client base for ancillary products and services from D+H and HFS.
[See Related: Core Banking Systems Winners And Losers]
D+H cited a 2012 survey by the Independent Community Bankers of America that said more than half of community banks in the survey were using core systems that were more than 10 years old. This will create an increased demand among smaller institutions over the next few years for new core systems as the existing systems continue to age, D+H noted. Celent just released its global core banking forecast yesterday, which predicted slow but steady growth in the global core banking market from $8.6 billion this year to $10.1 billion in 2017. In the U.S., Celent anticipated slow growth in demand from smaller banks, with some larger institutions finally taking the plunge and converting to a new core.
The Harland acquisition will also give D+H a stronger foothold in the U.S.; only 8% of the company's revenue comes from the U.S., but that will increase to 36% with the HFS acquisition.
The combination of HFS' LaserPro automated loan compliance solution with D+H's Mortgagebot Point of Sale and Loan Origination Systems will create a cross selling opportunity for the company in the lending market, the statement added.
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HACKED–This Feb. 8, 2012 photo shows a mural at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
by Michael Liedtke
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is getting an unwelcome look at the shady side of the hacking culture that CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrates.
Intruders recently infiltrated the systems running the world's largest online social network but did not steal any sensitive information about Facebook's more than 1 billion users, according to a blog posting Friday by the company's security team.
The unsettling revelation is the latest breach to expose the digital cracks in a society and an economy that is storing an ever-growing volume of personal and business data online.
The news didn't seem to faze investors. Facebook Inc.'s stock dipped 10 cents to $28.22 in Friday's extended trading.
The main building at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters lists its address as 1 Hacker Way. From there, Facebook serves as the gatekeeper for billions of potentially embarrassing photos and messages that get posted each month.
This time, at least, that material didn't get swept up in the digital break-in that Facebook said it discovered last month. The company didn't say why it waited until the afternoon before a holiday weekend to inform its users about the hack.
It was a sophisticated attack that also hit other companies, according to Facebook, which didn't identify the targets.
"As part of our ongoing investigation, we are working continuously and closely with our own internal engineering teams, with security teams at other companies, and with law enforcement authorities to learn everything we can about the attack, and how to prevent similar incidents in the future," Facebook wrote on the blog.
Online short-messaging service Twitter acknowledged being hacked earlier this month. In that security breakdown, Twitter warned that the attackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 of the more than 200 million accounts set up on its service.
Late last month, both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal — two of the three largest U.S. newspapers — said they were hit by China-based hackers believed to be interested in monitoring media coverage of topics that the Chinese government deemed important.
Facebook didn't identify a suspected origin of its hacking incident, but provided a few details about how it apparently happened.
The security lapse was traced to a handful of employees who visited a mobile software developer's website that had been compromised, which led to malware being installed on the workers' laptops. The PCs were infected even though they were supposed to be protected by the latest anti-virus software and were equipped with other up-to-date protection.
Facebook linked part of the problem to a security hole in the Java software that triggered a safety alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last month. The government agency advised computer users to disable Java on their machines because of a weakness that could be exploited by hackers.
Oracle Corp., the owner of Java, has since issued a security patch that it says has fixed the problem. In its post, Facebook said it received the Java fix two weeks ago.
Facebook never mentioned the word "hack" in describing the breach. That, no doubt, was by design because hacking is a good thing in Zuckerberg's vernacular.
To most people, hacking conjures images of malevolent behavior by intruders listening to private voicemails and villains crippling websites or breaking into email accounts.
Zuckerberg provided his interpretation of the word in a manifesto titled "The Hacker Way" that he included in the documents that the company filed for its initial public offering of stock last year.
"The word 'hacker' has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers," Zuckerberg wrote. "In reality, hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done."


text: Thailand conjures images of white sand beaches and cerulean waters, peaceful temples, and lush mountain jungles. In Bangkok, a 21st-century playground, the scent of spicy street food fills the air, and the Grand Palace recalls the country's traditions. Outside the capital, the wonders of the countryside enchant, whether you are elephant trekking in the northern hills, exploring Ayutthaya's splendid ruins, or diving in the waters of the idyllic southern coast. The unique spirit of the Thai people—this is the "land of smiles," after all—adds warmth to any visit.


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It's a simple cake to make which starts with softened butter that's creamed with sugar. Next, four eggs were added one at a time and mixed into the butter. Flour that had been sifted with baking powder was added in three parts with milk being added alternately. The batter was divided among three pans, and the cakes baked for about 25 minutes. To make the icing, sugar was caramelized in a skillet while more sugar, butter, and cream were brought to a boil in a saucepan. The caramelized, or burnt, sugar was then poured into the cream mixture, stirred to combine, and cooked to reach the soft-ball stage. Off the heat, vanilla and salt were added. It was allowed to cool a bit before being whisked in a stand mixer. Placing the bowl of icing into a big bowl of warm water worked perfectly to prevent it from setting too quickly as the cake was assembled. Still, once the icing was spooned onto the cake, it needed to be spread quickly before setting. I had toasted and chopped some pecans in advance and sprinkled them on the two bottom layers after spreading the caramel icing.
This is an old-fashioned, caramel-dream of a cake. It was like one giant, Southern praline wrapped around layers of buttery, vanilla cake. I'm not good at deciding on a flavor of ice cream when presented with several options either. This wasn't a quick decision, but I think I finally chose well.


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NEW YORK — Airline executives frequently complain about fuel costs. But the truth is higher prices actually have been good for business.
In the past six years, airlines have overhauled the way they operate to adjust to this new reality. They've shown more discipline by offering fewer seats, which ensures airfares are high enough to cover costs. Unprofitable routes have been eliminated. And every expense has been scrutinized.
These changes, along with high oil prices, have created an insurmountable roadblock to startup airlines that hope to undercut established carriers.
"Traditionally, it was too easy to start an airline and too difficult to kill one off," says Jamie Baker, an airline analyst with JPMorgan Chase.
No more.
A decade ago, airlines were paying just $1.42 a gallon for fuel, when adjusted for inflation. Last year, they paid an average of $3.03 a gallon, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Fuel now accounts for more than a third of airlines' expenses, overtaking salaries, wages and benefits as the single biggest line item. U.S. carriers burned through 16 billion gallons of jet fuel last year at cost of $48.4 billion. That's up nearly $23 billion from 10 years ago — when the airlines consumed 2 billion more gallons of fuel.
So why is this good?
High oil prices forced the major airlines to do business differently. They grounded older, gas-guzzling jets. Then they charged extra for checking baggage and raised other fees. More passengers were packed into planes and mergers helped push airfares higher. The average cost of a roundtrip domestic ticket — including baggage and reservation change fees — grew to $378.62 from $351.48 in the last five years, when adjusted for inflation.
All of that has them on pace for a fifth consecutive year of profits.
A big reason for the streak: The majors aren't facing the myriad of fly-by-night start-ups that disrupted their business in the past. Low-cost carriers like PeopleExpress and ValueJet used to be able to enter markets, charge a lot less to fly and push the established carriers out. Now — since fuel is such a great expense — that doesn't happen anymore, said Scott Kirby, president of American Airlines, at a recent aviation symposium in Phoenix.
"It's an equalizer," Kirby said.
Skybus Airlines launched in May 2007 promising to sell at least 10 seats on each of its flights for $10. By the following April, a spike in fuel prices proved fatal and the airline shut down operations overnight.
Without that competition, legacy carriers have avoided fare wars and kept ticket prices high.
"This represents the longest post-deregulation stretch that nobody has started a new airline in the United States," Baker says.
Virgin America was the last major new U.S. carrier. But since it started flying in August 2007, the San Francisco-based airline has lost hundreds of millions of dollars. It didn't post its first annual profit until last year and that was only after it stopped its rapid expansion.
Jeff Knittel, president of transportation and international finance at CIT, which leases planes to airlines, says the high fuel costs has created a financial discipline among carriers that has made them look closely at every expense — in the air and on the ground.
As part of their quest to reduce fuel consumption, airlines have replaced drink carts with new, lighter ones. Planes now taxi with only one engine running. And wingtips have been redesigned to reduce drag.
"It has forced efficiency throughout the entire organization," Knittel says.
High oil prices have also caused lenders to take a closer look at business models. In the past, they just considered the collateral — the airplane — that they were lending against.
"It makes the merits of the airlines matter more than they have in the past," says Hunter Keay, an airline analyst with Wolfe Research.
Airlines are only expanding to cities where they know they can make money, limiting competition and keeping everybody's flights profitable. Instead of fighting to become the largest airline in a city, airlines are now making rational decisions based on profitability.
"The only universal disciplinarian across the entire global airline industry is high oil prices," Keay says. "It makes even the bad actors make hard choices."
Scott Mayerowitz can be reached at http://twitter.com/GlobeTrotScott.
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The Avengers' takes top prize at MTV Movie Awards
LOS ANGELES - The Associated Press
Actor Brad Pitt, center, and from left, director Joss Whedon, actors Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Evans, from the cast of "The Avengers," winner of the award for movie of the year, pose backstage at the MTV Movie Awards in Sony Pictures Studio Lot in Culver City, Calif., on Sunday April 14, 2013. Invision for MTV
With a cast of superheroes and villains, "The Avengers" beat out its competitors to become the big winner at the MTV Movie Awards.The action romp won three awards Sunday, including the top prize, movie of the year.
"What's the opposite of humbled? We're Biebered to be standing here," said "Avengers" writer-director Joss Whedon as he accepted the final golden popcorn trophy. "This is the award that means the most to me. I am so grateful and very excited for 2015; we're going to bring you 'Avengers 2.'"
"The Avengers" also won best fight and best villain for actor Tom Hiddleston.
Bradley Cooper and show host Rebel Wilson were each double winners. Cooper won the first prize of the night for his performance in "Silver Linings Playbook" and returned to the stage to accept best kiss honors for his smooch with co-star Jennifer Lawrence in that film.
Lawrence, who won the Oscar for her role in "Playbook," was also a double winner, though she wasn't on hand. In addition to the kiss award, she won the golden popcorn for her performance.
Jamie Foxx was a double winner, too. He shared the best WTF moment award with Samuel L. Jackson for their scenes together in "Django Unchained," and later thanked his daughter, parents and siblings in the audience as he accepted the Generation Award for his career in film.
Foxx stars in June's "White House Down."
Wilson, who opened and closed the show wearing Iron Man-style armor, won breakthrough performance for her work in "Pitch Perfect" and shared in the film's award for best musical moment. Its stars, including Brittany Snow and Skylar Astin, opened the show with a mash-up medley.
Other musical acts were Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Selena Gomez, who debuted her new song, "Come and Get It," with a Bollywood-inspired performance.
The MTV Movie Awards are as much about the anticipated movies of the upcoming summer season as they are about the finest films of last year. Fans vote online for the winners in traditional and irreverent categories such as best fight, best kiss and best shirtless performance.
"Twilight" heartthrob Taylor Lautner won the shirtless award.
The show also included new footage from next month's "Iron Man 3" and the world premiere of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" trailer, introduced by one of its stars, Liam Hemsworth.
Stars from other summer films- including Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto from the "Star Trek" sequel and Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez from the "Fast & Furious" franchise - appeared as presenters during the ceremony.
Other presenters included Brad Pitt, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Snoop Dogg/Lion and Kim Kardashian.
Hollywood has increasingly used the fan-driven MTV Movie Awards as a platform to promote its summer product. This year, the show was moved up from June to April to incorporate the entire blockbuster season, which begins in early May.
Emma Watson, a star of this summer's "The Bling Ring," received the Trailblazer Award.
Will Ferrell wore a three-piece suit covered in dollar bills to accept the Comedic Genius Award from "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage.
"For those of you sitting here tonight who don't think I'm funny, I'll be happy to fight you in the parking lot after the show," said Ferrell, who is currently at work on "Anchorman 2," slated for release later this year.


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Welcome. These are some of the attempts at verse that I have made over the years. I trust that they are to the glory of the Lord Jesus - and that putting them here is to His glory too. I have now posted most that I have written at least once but continue in case a new audience finds new blessing. Occasionally I throw in some other verse. Comment are welcome.
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Fusion table showing PS4 titles by genre
Fusion table showing PS4 titles by genre
Inspired by a fusion chart I created for xbox 360 titles, I thought I'd try and build similar for the PS4 🙂
All data sourced from wikipedia: PS4 Games
Food for thought, I hope to play with other sources in the future.
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text: Space | 06. July 2012 Into orbit as planned Late in the evening, just as the launch window opened at 23:36 CEST, the Ariane 5ECA VA207 launched successfully with the EchoStar XVII and MSG-3 satellites on board. About 34 minutes later, the two payloads were injected into geostationary transfer orbits. This was the 49th successive successful launch of an Ariane 5, and the third one this year. Loading... The next launch of an Ariane 5ECA is already planned for the beginning of August. On board there will be two telecommunications satellites, Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2.


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The restoration of Fritz Lang's seminal expressionist film Metropolis (1927) recently got some of some of us thinking: how might this spectacular film and the equally iconic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (directed by Robert Wiene, released in 1920) relate to LACMA's collection? These films defined respectively the genres of science fiction and horror, later brought to perfection in Los Angeles—along with film noir, which these films also influenced—but where did they come from?
Horst von Harbou, Untitled (robot Maria dancing in night club), 1926, film still from Fritz Lang's movie Metropolis, purchased with funds provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
Working as a team of two curators (Britt Salvesen and myself), a curatorial fellow (Sienna Brown), and a curatorial assistant (Frauke Josenhans), we began combing through the thousands of works found together in the Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Prints and Drawings Department and Photography Department and quickly found a myriad of connections as well as some surprises among works of art portraying madness, the experience of the city, the conditions of workers, attitudes toward women, and the role of orators in inciting social change, whether for good or evil. It was exciting for us to bring these objects together in the same room with projections of excerpts from these two great films in the exhibition Masterworks of Expressionist Cinema: Caligari and Metropolis. (This weekend the films will screen in full in the Bing Theater, along with Paul Leni's Waxworks and F. W. Murnau's Faust.)
The Expressionists are known for exploring the "inner" mind, its complex feelings and psychological states. Yet they often conveyed this through setting and ambience. To do this they relied, in their paintings and graphics—as well as in the stage designs of the Expressionist theater—on the distortion of space and strong contrasts, whether in bold painted colors or starkly black-and-white graphics. This is what transforms a work like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's The Murder (1914) into a scene of pure horror. Printed in blood red and black, this huge lithograph portrays a disturbingly claustrophobic room closing in on railroad engineer Jacques Lantier, who suffers from hereditary madness and has just killed his lover Séverine, in a scene from Émile Zola's La Bête Humaine. Dropping the knife, he falls back in horror.
Dr. Caligari set designer Hermann Warm understood films in a similar way, as "drawings brought to life." He worked with two painters, Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig (who would also work on F. W. Murnau's Faust, 1927), to craft a disorienting world of jagged forms, misshapen windows, tilting walls, and illogical shadows which were then lighted with extreme contrasts of light and shadow—in short, symbolic diagrams of psychological states through which actors move in entirely unconventional ways. All of this can be seen in amazing detail in several vintage Caligari set shots in our exhibition, in which the actors assume their roles in exaggerated poses. These photographs extend beyond the cropping of the actual film so you can actually see how the sets were built and painted.
Unknown German Artist, Untitled (The somnambulist Cesare [Conrad Veidt]), 1919, set photograph from the film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The cabinet of Dr. Caligari), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
In one of these images we see Conrad Veidt as the somnambulist Cesare in Dr. Caligari creeping along the wall, more like a dancer than conventional actor, his knife hidden from our view, intending to commit his next murder. This acting style comes right out of the Expressionist theater, which rejected verisimilitude and relied on exaggerated emotions and gestures that were more operatic than natural. Veidt, who also starred in Paul Leni's 1924 Waxworks, was certainly indebted to the first and greatest expressionist stage actor, Ernst Deutsch, who was hugely successful in the first full-length Expressionist play, Walter Hasenclever's The Son, as portrayed in a lithograph by Rochus Gleise, who would be Art Director for Murnau's Sunrise (1927), Production Designer for Paul Wegener's The Golem, and Assistant Director for Caligari. And here we have some of the talent that made film noir possible later on in Hollywood—Deutsch playing Baron Kurtz in The Third Man (1949)and Veidt playing Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca(1942).
Rochus Gliese, "Der Sohn" von Walter Hasenclever 1 ("The son" by Walter Hasenclever 1), 1918, from the portfolio Das junge Deutschland: Phantasien über Aufführungen des Jahrs 1917/18 (The Young Germany: Fantasies about shows of the years 1917–1918), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
It is perhaps film noir that comes to mind when we see the decadent nightlife portrayed in Metropolis (remembering that Fritz Lang would direct The Big Heat in 1953). In one scene, the screen fills with hands and then close-ups of dozens of eyes conveying the intense male gaze in a nightclub where the robot Maria dances as a femme fatale. We find a parallel in Otto Lange's Vision, a color woodcut from around 1919, only here an overpowered female figure covers her face and crouches on a chair at the center of the composition, the intensely staring eyes being part of her own hallucinatory vision.
Otto Lange, Vision, probably after 1919, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
But the most stunning aspect of Metropolis is its set designs by Erich Kettelhut, inspired by Lang's first glimpse of New York City's skyline, suggested in our exhibition in photographs by William Rittase and Karl Struss from the teens and twenties. The film presents two worlds: the workers' oppressive underground realm of machines and tenements, and the futuristic paradise above of skyscrapers, parks, and sports arenas for the leisure classes. Two etchings from Franz Maria Jansen's 1921 portfolio Industry capture a dehumanizing urban landscape of factories billowing smoke and cavernous rows of machines through which workers trudge mechanically, very much as they are portrayed returning from work in Metropolis.
Franz Maria Jansen, Untitled, 1921, from the portfolio Industrie (Industry), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
The bustling metropolis from the future portrayed in the film was certainly based in part on Berlin, one of the fastest-growing and most modern cities in Europe at the time. Fleeting impressions of buildings, advertising signs, elevated railways, traffic, and noise are all captured in Otto Möller's Berlin Expression, a lithograph from around 1920. But perhaps the most inspiring icon for artists of the time was the cathedral, whether conveyed in crystalline light, as in Max Thalmann's woodcut, or conflated with urban skyscrapers, as seen in New York's Metropolitan Life Tower photographed by Karl Struss and in William Rittase's So This is New York, or as a unifying symbol of the future, exemplified in Lyonel Feininger's woodcut, Cathedral, accompanying Walter Gropius' founding Bauhaus manifesto of 1919. All these symbols come together—crystalline light, soaring towers, elevated bridges, and an ominous vision of the future—in Heinz Schulz-Neudamm's stunning gold-hued poster for Metropolis. By this you will be convinced that the film is worth the price of admission!
William Rittase, So This is New York, c. 1927, Los Angeles County Fund
Timothy Benson, Curator, Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies


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Julie D., you think I could get this stitched on a pillow?
- Related Wreckage: Freud Would Be Proud
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
I wish I would have been given that advice!!
Oh. my. word! I taught "Finding Love" this week in my classes. "Thrust" was not among the definitions I used for love!
I don't even want to go there! Such a beautiful cake, too!
so, when it's a cake is it a frostian slip?
Well, they say that the secret to a healthy marriage is a healthy sex life.
I guess...
Faith, Hope & Trust...Where's the Pixie Dust?
I really like it. It is plain and simple but really elegant...well for me anyways. I wouldn't mind having a wedding cake look like that for my wedding. My aunt owns a bakery shop and is making my wedding cake. I will have to send a picture of it to you when the big day arrives.
OMGosh! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What a shame, because it's really such a pretty cake otherwise!! The poor wreckerator must have been mortified. Too funny.
I actually did this once, but in a letter. My dad is a terrible typist, and wanted to dictate a letter about a friend of his who was accused of embezzlement. He said "Bob is intelligent, a family man, and trustworthy." I typed "thrustworthy."
Thank God we caught it before the letter went out! Otherwise, maybe "thrustworthy" would be a good thing in prison...
do you think the bakers thrust this cake at the couple?
It took me a moment but ... ummm... wow... hopefully grandma can't see too well and doesn't as anyone to read the cake out loud!
I was thinking, "What a pretty cake..." Until I scrolled all the way down.
Wow, I'll bet the bride (or at least her mother) was mortified.
For some reason I never think of the word "thrust" in a dirty sense, but rather it always brings to mind the classic line from "Chicken Run"..."we need more THRUST"
such a pretty cake with such an embarrassing typo!
Gotta add that to the marriage counseling curriculum. Awesomely funny!
Oh, that is so perfect.
Haha, I almost missed it...Almost, but not quite.
Oh, WOW! Subtle; it took a minute for me to see it!
It's such a nice cake, with very neat and tidy penmanship. What a pity humans don't come with spell-check.
Talk about your basic Freudian slips! Hehehehehehehe....
Oh wow. Wow. That's just...wow. I wonder if it's like that around the whole cake?
OMG. Did that go all around the whole cake?
Well, I guess without 'THRUST' you can't get 'lift off' (wink, wink), so it is pretty important. =D
If that was done on purpose, someone has a great sense of humor. If not, I would hate to see the bride when she saw that cake.
Maybe the couple are astronauts? Or rocket scientists?
THAT is even more embarrassing than the Nazi ninja-star cake!!
So lovely. So delicate. So descriptve!
Ok, that got a serious guffaw out of me.
@ Maya - LOL!
What a gorgeous cake! I would have been blushing so badly!
It is a shame; if that extra "h" wasn't there the last "love" would fit perfectly. I wonder if they noticed:
"Scribing a cake, scribing a cake."
[Comes to end of side, with no room for last "e."]
"That's weird. I've made this cake a hundred times and it always fits. Hey, Dolly, come here."
[Dolly saunters over.]
"Does this cake look weird to you? I couldn't fit in the last 'e'."
[Dolly examines.]
"Maybe you wrote bigger than usual?"
"Nope, the letters are the height they're supposed to be."
[Both examine; shrug]
"Oh well. I guess if you keep going around the side no one will notice anything wrong."
Leanne, did you READ the cake??
I didn't even see it at first. I wonder if some baker snuck that in on purpose...just to see if anyone noticed.
I would have *loved* to have been at that wedding, to watch the guests reactions.
@Maya and Tamara--funny!
I wonder if the decorator was a)getting fired and thought they'd sneak in a little sabotage or b) was a friend or foe of the couple and thought they'd pull a little prank on them or c) maybe the couple was well known for their, um, passion?
I wish my husband got that advice! LOL
That could have been an easy fix if they actually caught it.
Maybe they had plans for "Mile-High Club" membership? How I wish I didn't have to know your honeymoon plans, you crazy kids.
At first I didn't see the problem and then I reread carefully and went 'oooooh'. XD Hahaha!
Okay, so what DO you do if you arrive to pick up the wedding cake and it's unintentionally pornographic?
Do you have any way of finding out if the error was all around the cake?
Huh? I don't really see .... oh. Oh my.
That oughta do it, indeed.
I didn't even get the joke until I looked at the cake a second time.
This is one of those where you wonder whether the customer ordered it that way, or the wreckerator is ad-libbing.
i swear i had to read that like 10 times before i caught the misspelling! but omgoodness that's hilarious!!!
I think this is the funniest one yet.
Where's Burton? I'm thinking a cupcake sized mash-up of this cake and the NASA "Something Special For The Ladies" Cake.
Its a classic! It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't true. I'll be laughing at this all weekend. Oh, and maya, I loved your comment....frostian slip...LOL!
I wonder if this couple invited their minister to the reception. "Mother Jane, would you like some ca.... uh, some tea? Come over here and have some tea."
(I also love the captcha below that I have to type in. Not kidding, it says 'dangu'. Just what the couple was probably thinking...)
Definitely stitch it on a pillow--more cushion for the pushin'!
(Did I just say that?!?)
Does it say that on all four sides of the cake?
That was totally awesome!!! I want to hire this cake decorator immediately to put their unique spin on all cake quotes. Just think what could be done to this classic...
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you look in the background it looks like it is a) still at the bakery or b) in the back room of the reception place. So hopefully it was caught and fixed before too much damage was done!
Spell check would have been useless here. No, what this poor decorator needed was a second pair of eyes. Pretty cake, though.
*embarrassed chuckle* Oops...
And Juli, the Chicken Run line came to mind for me as well.
@ maya: too funny
I move that "frostian slip" become a new cake wreck category. Anyone care to second that 'motion'?
I bet the guests loved that - they must have been giggling like mad. Cue jokes about the wedding night!
W-O-W!! Those are good ingredients for a marriage!! I am crying I'm laughing so hard... and I may seriously stitch that into a pillow :)
PS- wouldn't that be better wedding night advice? Cheers! Jen
Woohoo! My Man just brought home my Cake Wrecks book!
It's a shame, because otherwise, it's a pretty cake!
I think this would be a great cake in 2 situations...
1) Only in one place on the wedding cake, in a set-up where it could be facing a wall, so really only the bride & groom would know/see it.
2) At a non-prudish wedding shower or bachelorette party.
I guess this means grandkids in the mear future ;)
"... What a pity humans don't come with spell-check."
Why do people keep suggesting spell-check for cases like this, where spell-check would not help at all? "Thrust" is a perfectly good word, it just isn't the right word (... I think ... unless they meant ... well, you know).
ROFL!! This had to be done on purpose...it's just too funny! It looks like the words were repeated as a border...I wonder if the typo (pipo?) is every time or just once "for fun"?
DEFINITELY one of my very, very, very favorite wrecks. I laughed out loud (and I'm more of a smiler than a laugh-out-louder.) :)
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but you mean your mother!
The saying "the proof is in the pudding" can now be: "the truth is in the icing!" This wreck is HILARIOUS!!!!!
Oh my god, I can't stop laughing! It's the most hilarious thing I've seen in a while XD.
You can't deny it's a good advice, though. Where would we all be without thrust? Where indeeed.
I totally missed the "Thrust"! LOL! My brain automatically corrected it!
Well....at least it appears to still be at the bakery.
Love the site BTW. Makes me LOL everyday. Literally!
*snicker* Some faith, hope, and clarity would be good, too.
Oh, that is a GOOD one!!!
Heehee! Gotta have plenty of thrust on your wedding night, right?
OK when I signed in to comment, there were 69 existing comments already. HA!!
Omigosh! We have the cake challenge show on the Food Network on right now and it's the cake-on-fire episode! I've only ever seen the clips on here!
My favorite kind of Wreck -the delayed reaction.
(Maybe it's just me, but if that had been MY wedding cake, I'd have taken it as is, just to see who was paying attention.)
I actually read it as "TRUST" the first time and was like "I don't get it. Why is this so funny?" and so I looked at the comments....
I guess you can see how this sort of thing can happen hehehe.
@ 9:41 LeAnne--
I wouldn't mind having a wedding cake look like this for my wedding either. But I would mind very much if the word "thrust" appeared anywhere on it.
I'm going to have to send this to my husband...we've been married 7 months and I'm 6 1/2 months pregnant, so...
Awww, it came so far but just fell flat right at the finish line to become a Wreck. It really was a pretty cake... Right up until the moment you read the writing...
At first glance I thought this was a Sunday Sweet. Oh, so close..one letter away!
Whew! *wipes eyes*
I can't breathe...
Love kind of looks like Lol at first, so I thought it was done on purpose.
Oh, jeez. What a laugh!
~Amy B-H
The background of the photo looks like it's still in the bakery - maybe they caught it before it got out the door? Still. I would have laughed so hard if that showed up at my wedding! And gone BRIGHT red, but hey.
Oh God. Toooo funny! And it's actually absolutely Awesome advice, haahaa....!
HAHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I didn't read it as that the first time!! HAHAHAH! AM crying into my coffee!!!! God,,,no wonder I'm not married yet...I just didn't have the right, um, tools.
Wedding Cake + Freudian Slip = WIN!
I read it twice before I saw the misspelling. (beaver slap to forehead!) These wreckerators never cease to amuse me. Thanks for my Saturday giggle!
I totally didn't see what was wrong with it at first. I thought maybe it was the "lov" at the end, but that didn't make any sense because I figured it continued around the corner. So I read it again. Then I snorted.
*sings* "But it's the pelvic thruuuust that really drives you insaaaaaaaaane"
ROLFMAO! I had to look twice, but it was worth the second glance!
my reaction to that was.. "That's so pretty, I don't understa.....OH!" LMAO
So, were the people getting married both jet pilots or astronauts?
... or, uh, porn stars?
If that was my cake, I would have did a double take, then started laughing. I would take a typo over lopsided layers, attacking flowers and melting buttercream any day of the week. And it is a cute cake. I do hope that was caught before it got to the reception though!
am late getting here today and hate to see that i've missed out on all the fun.
this is, by far, one of my very favorite wrecks to date!!
what. a. frickin'. HOOT!!
That made me giggle like a 12 year-old.
Ahahaha-- I needed a good laugh today!
@Alicia-- Maybe this one WAS funded by NASA again; they've started to seem like a dirty-minded bunch to me!
@Untamed Shrew-- I can't believe you said that, or how hard I snorted when I read it!
Well, clearly the baker is a Rocky Horror Picture Show fan.
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insaaaane!
Let's do the Time Warp again!
The Time Warp is indeed sage advice for any married couple. *nods vigorously*
At first I was confused about why this was a wreck. Then I read it again and LOLed my head off. I hope the couple was amused. If it were my wedding, once the mistake was made I don't think I'd want it corrected. Too hilarious!
As an avid cross-stitcher, I would gladly cross-stitch that onto a pillow for you... for an autographed copy of the book. ;) LOL
The cake was beautiful... too bad it was messed up. :(
okay.... so, i saw this and it took a second for it to sink in that it said "thrust" not "trust" i am sooooo showing this to my boyfriend tomorrow. he'll get a kick out of it.
@Jedi Knight Ivyan I Second the Frostian Slip motion! :-)
I know what piece I want. So perfect with those prim pink bows, I'm just glad this wasn't my sister's wedding cake.
Bahahaha! Well, that's an important part of a marriage too... right? hehehe
WV: fadabst
that cake is fadabst, daaahling!
*snicker snicker* My friend's MIL insisted on making the groom's cake for her wedding. It was an open book (supposed to be the Bible) and the verse inscribed on it was "And the two shall become one flesh." I think they had the thrust down-pat.
If I'd had a mouth full of water I would have done a spit take.
I hope the bride and groom cut that piece first.
Oh, Oh my God. Oh my god that's brilliant!
I didn't get why it was a wreck at first, except maybe because the "Love" on the end was cut off, and I was confused...
I just read it again.
Oh my God.
Now see... If that happened on My wedding cake, I'd be laughing my ass off...
I kind of think that qualifies as a Win...
~ Maddy
HaHa! Took me a moment to notice that. I thought, nice and simple desi...oh...OHHHH!
Ha ha ha! My thoughts went like this 'wow. what a cute idea for a cake! Love, faith, hope, tr-- thrust?? What? ...Oh.' **Blush**
Jedi Knight Ivyan said I move that "frostian slip" become a new cake wreck category. Anyone care to second that 'motion'?
I second that!
SouthernSugar said Awww, it came so far but just fell flat right at the finish line to become a Wreck.
Were those puns intentional, or is it all just in my (admittedly dirty) mind?
I wonder if the bride will be wearing white? Humm?
@Serena PLEASE make a pillow of that!!! Oh man, that is a perfect wedding present. >:D
this should be really on a pillow on the site. i would definitely buy it! it is way toooo funny! hehe.
When I first looked at this, I thought "Hey, why's Jen talking smack about this one? Maybe it's a Sunday Sweet and I missed it?"
...then I saw it. *facepalm*
Sorry, Jen. XD
something tells me the making of that cake involved "hey guys, watch this! they won't even notice!"
This wins.
WV: prega -- 'nuff said!
Looks like either the bridesmaids or the best man bribed the baker.
This is just as good as the stunt where the best man 'loses' the wedding ring.
Two of my very dear friends got married on the day of this post. How perfect!!!
I just spit all over my keyboard...wow, that was unexpected but awesome.
My first and probably only belly laugh of the day. Thank you!
OK, so I sat here staring at the cake trying to figure out why it was a wreck. Then I took my brain off auto-pilot and actually READ the words. That is hilarious! Love. Faith. Hope. and let's not forget to THRUST!
That last E would have fit nicely if they had left out the H!
Could have been worse
My Husband wants this on matching t-shirts.
I seriously think that if my baker had done this by mistake and I saw it before it was corrected, I would be BEGGING my husband-to-be to let me get it (after negotiating a discount from the baker, of course). I'd even serve it at the reception.
Then again, I used to sell "marital aids" for extra money, so I think like that.
If the couple is anything like us and our friends they asked for the cake that way to see who was paying attention! And for a little bit of that hope to keep the sex life alive and happy.
SHUT UP!!!! That does NOT say, THRUST, does it?!! Oh my word - I can't even breathe, I'm laughing so hard!!!
:) Mags
That is too good. That is what I want on my same-sex wedding cake! It's perfect!
that is great!
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