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Monday, September 14, 2009
A Whale of a Tale
Monday, September 14, 2009
And not just any Wreck, either.
A wreck [dramatic pause] to the third power.
Er, or something like that.
Last week a local news website in DC ordered a cake for their fifth anniversary. The site is named DCist, and Sommer, who sent this in, asked the bakery to just write their name across the whole cake.
Here's what they got instead:
You've got to admire the tenacity of this decorator. Even while operating under the assumption that the customer wanted something written "on a whale cake", he still went ahead and just wrote those instructions out instead. The fact that the baker actually made more work for himself (by writing the extra text) while trying to make less work for himself (by avoiding drawing or carving a whale cake) is what makes this such a gem. Ah, good stuff.
Thanks to Sommer and to DCist.com, which also posted it (under the same clever title, I might add - great minds and all that) here.
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- Amanda | Glittericity said...
Just... wow. It's not even decorative either. Some anniversary cake! Though I have to wonder why a place like that didn't go somewhere a bit classier for that special occasion.
- September 14, 2009 at 9:33 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
You have to wonder if people aren't doing this intentionally just to get their 15 minutes.
- September 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- Vickie said...
Cease and desist! After yesterday's beauties come this . . . how wrecky can you get?! (No, don't answer that!)
- September 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Taylor (My Older Brothers) said...
I thought of a really groan-worthy pun!
The people responsible for this cake need to seas and DCist! (cease and desist, get it?)
I'm sad for myself now. - September 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- heather (errantdreams) said...
Courtesy of my husband: "Wow. A wreck to a higher power! I mean, once religion is involved..."
:) - September 14, 2009 at 9:40 AM
To be fair, that letter looks more like the "o" than the other "a"s in that person's handwriting. So it's probably just meant to read "on a whole cake". Which is still bad, but not as... weird.
- September 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Wow! I'm nearly speechless after that "brilliant" display of "talent." Scarier yet to think these people may even be allowed to vote!!
WV: painsph - what some cake wrecks cause - September 14, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Half Assed Kitchen said...
They've gotta have a plastic whale decoration he could've slapped on that thing. Maybe way up in the corner so there'd be room for all those words?
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - September 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- Unknown said...
Ehrm, I would call it creativity. Some wrecky sort of....
- September 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Bilby P. Dalgyte said...
...what does that even MEAN!?
Lol - September 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Suburban Princess said...
Wow!! How dumb do thee decorators have to be!?
- September 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Brittany Blais said...
Since reading this post the following verse from 20000 Leagues Under the Sea has been stuck in my head:
"Got a whale of a tale to tell ya lads.
A whale of a tale or two
'Bout the flappin' fish and the girls I've loved
On nights like this with the moon above.
A whale of a tale and it's all true
I swear by my tattoo." - September 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Terry Lee said...
aside from the ridiculous-ness of adding that text, i do see a tiny loop on the "o", making it "whole".
but "whale" is funnier, eh?
oh, and did they really want a black and white cake?! seems rather boring for a celebration.
save the wholes. - September 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM
To be fair, anyone with handwriting like this should not attempt to draw anything, even something as simple as a whale. They could at least have jazzed it up a bit with some sprinkles!
Did DCist request a funereal cake, or did the bakery choose the color scheme as well?
WV: misol The painful pun by Taylor (My Older Brothers) made misol hurt a little. - September 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Are you sure this isn't from the same wreckerator as the one that started it all (i.e. Under Neat That)?
- September 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- Mary said...
I am pretty sure that says "on a whole cake", not a whale cake. Looks more like an "o" but still...
- September 14, 2009 at 10:37 AM
- Kelsey S. said...
For bonus points, it also looks like the "K" in "caKe" was originally an "h."
- September 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Unknown said...
It's just so good. Happy Monday!
Natalie from
www.gamblepartyoffour.blogspot.com - September 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM
To be fair, DCist's logo, and all other "ist" sites, are black and white, so I think they probably chose the color scheme. Avid reader of DCist and cake wrecks!
- September 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Jennifer B said...
Oh geez....
- September 14, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- S3XinthePantry said...
Ahhh that reminds me of your old post of the cake that had spelled out "and underneath that put ___" I can't remember, was it someone's name?
Yes on a whale cake.... will be a cake to remember! - September 14, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- Goof said...
Yeah I too wondered why the color scheme was black and white, until I went ahead and looked at their company site. I guess its their company colors.
If I ever want a cake with big letters across the cake,or what ever for that matter, I think what I'll do is draw a picture of what I want for the baker/decorator to follow. They SHOULDN'T messed it up much from that. - September 14, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Famous Hat said...
Are these people really that literal-minded, or are they just trying to get onto Cake Wrecks? And which is worse??
WV: beerifyn. I'm gonna need a beerifyn gonna keep thinking about this question! - September 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Ms. Bright said...
This cake was MADE for Cake Wrecks!!!
- September 14, 2009 at 11:44 AM
sad...just sad.
- September 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Becky said...
They put it down in black and white. Maybe this crew can book Charm City Cakes for their 10th year celebrations-if they call now.
- September 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Yeah, I would say that is definitely a wreck to the third degree... *shakes head*
- September 14, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Unknown said...
Not even an outline of a whale? Outrageous!
~Amy B. - September 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- OmegaMom said...
I'm surprised no-one has come up with:
FAIL WHALE! - September 14, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- Norkio said...
Don't they actually read the site? It should be required reading for decorators to check this site before beginning their careers. Seriously, someone pitch this to Wilton or whoever does cake decorator training these days.
http://pastperiodspress.com - September 14, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- Debbi said...
Aww ... and their logo is all in lower case. The "decorator" even put their name in all caps! Wrong on SO many levels ...
- September 14, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- September 14, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Glory von Hathor said...
Now I'm going to be humming Mr Scruff's Whalefish Song except with the word Whalecake.
There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a whalecake he cried... - September 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Well, I don't know, sometimes my o's look like a's.
But then again, I'm way more careful when I'm doing something serious or that I want people to understand. So there's no excuse. - September 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I dunno, o or a, a or o. I think it was one of those situations where the wreckerator is saying to him/herself, "gee, I can't tell if that's supposed to be 'whole' or 'whale', so I'll just make a letter kind of half-way between both and maybe they'll think it's right."
Sort of like when middle-schoolers try to make they're "t's" and "f's" indistinguishable on a true/false test. But just like in middle school, either way, this is WRONG!
Instead of trying to work out the a vs. o dilemma, would it not have been more reasonable to question the entire concept of writing "...on a whole/whale cake" on the cake???
WV - faccap - this cake (seriously, that was the WV - I love it!) - September 14, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- 12 hour pills said...
How precious. I think this looks better than a whale cake, though, so perhaps we should thank the wreckerator.
- September 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Viewtiful_Justin said...
Something is wrong with the site...I am getting all this white weirdness at the left margin of the text.
- September 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- frigglesnitz said...
Do these wreckorators not have phones?
"Excuse me, I have a question about the decoration on your cake you ordered...Do you want it the way you asked for it, or do you want it featured on Cake Wrecks?"
WV-aming These clowns were not aming too high, were they? - September 14, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- Caz said...
Wow.. that's a Whale of a Fail LOL
- September 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM
- Sheri said...
Whale or Whole, this is one of the ugliest cakes I've ever seen. What's with the black wiggle border? This may have been professional, but it screams amateur. If it was my company's cake, I would have refused it. Rather have no cake at all!
This wreckerator needs to find new work. UGLY, UGLY, UGLY. - September 14, 2009 at 7:21 PM
- Your Special Cake! said...
it doesn't say "Whale," it says "whole..." They were supposed to write it on a whole cake... No whales needed to be harmed during the decorating of this cake
- September 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- Hunter said...
I'm guessing it was a two-step fail -- first, the person who wrote it down thought they'd said to put it on a whale cake, and then passed the instructions on to another baker who doubled the fail.
- September 14, 2009 at 9:24 PM
- Naddy said...
i agree with kelly, anyone with ugly handwriting should abstain from decorating cake.
- September 14, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Are you sure the "a" in "whale" isn't just a poorly cursived "o" (as in "whole")?
- September 14, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- peewee said...
whoa! Talk about overuse of flotsam and color!
- September 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM
That just...
There are no words.
God, I can't believe they...
Wow. That's a whole new level of failure, right there. - September 14, 2009 at 11:00 PM
well that was a ^smart^ wrecker! i love it when they are soooo tenical! ;)
- September 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM
hmmmm..... I think these people are related to the people who did my cake last year.....
- September 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM
- Little Scarf Girl said...
Wow, I'm not even sure if people are reading these instructions when they go to decorate the cakes. :o Honestly.
- September 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I thought those things on the outside of the whales were barnacles, not cysts. Huh.
- September 14, 2009 at 11:57 PM
- Unknown said...
I don't know, writing "on a whale cake" is probably less work than making a whale-shaped cake.
- September 15, 2009 at 12:28 AM
- Adnoxious said...
I think this decorator stumbled upon a totally NEW kind of cake design. The cake gives you the concept and then you can create your own version IN YOUR MIND. It's cake decoration on a whole new level. Genius! Or maybe not.
Taking aim at lousy advertising - September 15, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- Julie said...
Jen, I love you.
- September 15, 2009 at 2:47 AM
- Aleisha said...
Thought you might find these cakes cute/interesting/inventive. - September 15, 2009 at 7:09 AM
Unrelated: I just woke up from a Cake Wrecks dream. My husband and I were in some grocery store laughing at the cakes, and I commented that due to this website, cakes were now always funny. Alas, I did not have a camera in the dream; and even worse, I don't remember what the Hell was so funny about them. But I thought I might mention that you are now invading the sleeping minds of innocents. So, you know, I hope you don't desire to kill us in our dreams. That would be less than amusing.
- September 15, 2009 at 7:36 AM
I think the black-and-white color scheme probably came from the name "DCist". They must've thought it was a fancy spelling of "Deceased".
- September 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- Ruthie said...
Aaaaand thus, she had the Newsboys' "In the Belly of the Whale" stuck in her head for the rest of the day.
- September 15, 2009 at 8:02 AM
OK, people...yes, we KNOW it is supposed to say WhOLE CAKE...that is part of why it is so funny! It LOOKS like WHALE...I cannot believe some of the comments here, saying that "oh, I see a loop at the top of the word...they were writing an O..not an A." Gee, ya think?? Get with the program! FUNNY...Ha Ha Ha!!!
- September 15, 2009 at 9:05 AM
- NewsCat said...
Okay as a DC resident I DEMAND to know what bakery did this. DCites should know which bakeries we can trust.
- September 15, 2009 at 1:22 PM
She is 20 years old- "Twentieth"!
- September 15, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I'm an avid reader of DCist (mostly for the comments, because they aren't really a "news" site but more a "news blog" site instead) and found this first on their site and found CW through them! Happy that their ruined cake brought me here to the hilarity of this site!
According to the article that they wrote, they verbally told the bakery they wanted "DCist" on the whole cake, and in the meantime, got "DCIST on a whale/whole cake". It doesn't seem to me they did that on purpose to get on the CW website, but it's now an inside joke on DCist now. Happy to see that they made it here, was waiting to see if they did! - September 16, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Tania said...
Good grief. I wonder how that decorator even dresses themselves of a morning....
One thing I also wonder every time I see a wreck like this - nobody actually pays for them, right? I assume they refuse, or get their money back? - September 17, 2009 at 7:21 AM
- VeggieT said...
Don't you just hate it when baker's play "telephone" Let's see how many steps it might have taken, shall we?
"DCist in big letter across the whole cake"
"DCIST across the whole cake"
"DCIST on a whole cake"
"DCIST on a whale cake" - September 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM
This is funny on so many levels.
This is my favorite category.
"UnderNeat That" :) - September 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- ACDC said...
That totally cracked me up, even though it's so, so sad!
- September 23, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Angie said...
Epic fail whale.
- October 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM
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My big brother was born on April !st as well, I love that we have that to share :) My mom was born on Christmas.
- April 1, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Ms. Blasé said...
C'mon! You can't even call that last "cake" a cake! It should be defined as a lazy, pathetic mess.
- April 1, 2011 at 9:43 AM
I looked at the champagne-cigar and thought it looked like a personal satisfaction aid. Everytime I see a vaguely elongated cake I picture a personal satisfaction aid. This never happened before reading this blog. NEVER.
I think I need therapy now.
And perhaps a personal satisfaction aid.
Or a cold shower. - April 1, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Sarah said...
My birthday is tomorrow :) And I sort of like the cake wreck cake...in a cake wrecky sort of way, once I knew it was a Lego that is. LOL
- April 1, 2011 at 9:53 AM
The REAL April Fool's joke is they're all Sacher Tortes.
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- DB - April 1, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Dani said...
Oh come on that leggo one would be really clever if someone's Mom had thought of turning a cupcake pan up side down. Maybe not so much if you paid a professional.
- April 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM
I was born on April Fool's Day too! Happy birthday to your brother!
- April 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Even with the word "purse" above the purse cake, I had to look at it for, well, waaay too long to realize it was supposed to be a purse.
- April 1, 2011 at 10:40 AM
The trick is people paid for those things O_o
- April 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Katrina said...
My son Ewan was born on April 1st, played the biggest joke of all on me since he was 2 weeks early!
Happy Birthday to your brother :-) - April 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Since the comment posting ridiculousness a few weeks ago, I've gone from checking into and laughing at the blog daily to reading the comments as well. They're almost as entertaining & hilarious. I read through "liking" comments in my head as I go along.
@Sharyn in Superior - hilarious.
And anybody have any clue what the name on the first cake was? Which unfortunate soul received that birthday cake? - April 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Monica said...
Come on, that last one? OBVIOUSLY supposed to be Epcot.
WV: Quiti. I was going to make another joke, but I should quiti while I'm ahead. - April 1, 2011 at 10:44 AM
My baby was supposed to be born on April first. Her in-utero practical joke was to be 10 days late. :-\
- April 1, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Donna said...
LOL SuBee!!! My laugh for the day!
And here I thought the "champagne" cake was a rocket ship. Silly me. - April 1, 2011 at 11:05 AM
- Loo-E Loo-I said...
LOL @ the jokes. We already got our boss this morning, heh heh heh. ]:-D
I read one for the Google page, if you go to languages, and scroll down, you can change the language to Elmer Fudd, pirate, Klingon, Swedish Chef (Bork, Bork Bork) and of course German, French, Chinese, etc. (Google in English changes it back)
April Fool's Day for wreckerators? I think they do a good job of looking foolish everyday!
wv: dereeda: Dereeda bloga de Cake-a Wrecks-a for de funny bork bork bork! - April 1, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- Stephanie said...
"Purse your lips" - nice. :P
- April 1, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh, so the "top hat" cake is one of those kind that fold flat? and it's supposed to be a folded black top hat on a cracked grey pedestal?? no? umm...huh.
- April 1, 2011 at 11:39 AM
As wrecks go, the Lego wasn't too bad, actually.
And wait, you and your brother are "Ben and Jen"? Did your parents do that on purpose? I once knew a family who had parents named Mary and Larry. Their kids were Barry, Carey and Derrick. They either didn't like the third kid or didn't like the names "Gary" or "Harry". - April 1, 2011 at 11:41 AM
One of our library clerks has made cakes on the order of the pizza for us for the last few years--but his are much more realistic--both as other food and as cakes.
WV ingbatic Such a mystery--these cakes are real ingbatic. - April 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Classic Steve said...
The LEGO cake wouldn't be so bad if not for the differently colored sides and border. And if it looked more like two conjoined squares.
Does the first cake say, "Happy Birthday Riz"? - April 1, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- KD Jewelry said...
I think my son would LOVE the Lego Cake!
- April 1, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Wow! I must have gotten the Cake Wrecks Sunday "best" cakes edition early!!!!! These are AWESOME!
wv - satere: what's really written on the cake from March 30th.... - April 1, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Unknown said...
The lego one isn't that bad. Maybe not for a pro, but for home made it would be pretty good.
Fuchsia - April 1, 2011 at 12:19 PM
My husbands birthday is April 1st too! But I can't play any pranks on him this year cause he's deployed. But maybe I'll get him a "yummy" looking pizza cake when he comes home. Lol
- April 1, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Thanks for the April Foolery!
Those purses look like the ones designed to carry tiny dogs. So, it could be worse -- the dogs from yesterday's table cake could be peeking out from them!
wv - copproid
Condition suffered by police officers who are sent on too many stakeouts that involve sitting for a long time. - April 1, 2011 at 12:40 PM
A Lego cake! Why didn't I think of that? My son has a birthday last month and he loves Legos. We even went to the Lego store. I could have made a cake that good.
I think the "pizza" cupcake would have turned out pretty good if they hadn't used pink icing for the sauce.
WV: subie. Apparently, word verification just takes other people's names and misspells them. Never noticed that before. So whoever gets my scrambled name, sorry about that. - April 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Siouxzr said...
The purse cake seems to be mooning everyone. The magician's hat is truly horrifying. It's made of cardboard and crepe paper, right?
Sharyn in Superior -- too funny - April 1, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- A Cake To Remember LLC said...
I'm working on a baseball stadium cake now and was worried that it wasn't relistic enough. Compared to these I'm not worried anymore.
- April 1, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- Muay Thai Los Angeles said...
It looks like you're paying tribute to opening day, too. The first one actually kind of resembles pizza, but the others are just a disaster. Especially the champagne, where it looks more like a frat paddle then a champagne bottle...
- April 1, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- min said...
Oh, I so needed those laughs today. Thank you!!
Count me as another who likes the lego cake. That purse took me for-freakin-ever to figure out, though! - April 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM
First time commenter, I like the Jefferson Airplane (White Rabbit) referance. I hope I wasn't the only one to catch that.
- April 1, 2011 at 3:04 PM
In order, they are:
1) An exceptional example of a King's Cake, the traditional Mardi Gras cake that awakes the fury of them dern Cajun Southerners so quickly;
2)Clearly a prime representative of the Dora the Explorer clothing and accesories line, created exclusively for little girls, and a fine example at that;
3) A Smeltzner Creme, a dessert staple at only the finest gourmet restaurants, such as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe;
4) A Sacher Torte; how could you possibly not know that? My experience in cake decorating and culinary training indicates that i must be correct;
5) EPCOT, duh;
6).... you got me there. - April 1, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- Micalah said...
Tee-hee what a joke!
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- Miss Monroe said...
LOVING the hat!
- April 1, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Good calls, @Libby.
#1 The 'pizza' maker thoughtfully included a layer of Pepto so that partakers wouldn't have indigestion later.
#2 Instead of simply clearing away whatever falls off the cakes in a display case, couldn't we maybe fix them (or at least turn them around)?
#3 Are those giant marshmallows under that Sandra Lee blue frosting?
#4 Other interpretations having already been, er, interjected into the conversation, I'll go with Napa Valley's first effort in the space program.
#5 At last the story can be told: In 19**, a flying saucer crash landed on a black, pedestal-looking thing in ######, NM. The official explanation of 'a weather balloon filled with swamp gas' failed to explain the cracks. (No offense to New Mexico residents.)
#6 My first guess was 'an attempt to use up the last batch of white frosting before it expired', but that doesn't explain either the ball-and-glove pick jammed into it or the red lines. It's a mystery. - April 1, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Loved it.
Love pizza.
Love legos.
Marry me. - April 1, 2011 at 5:23 PM
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I was unaware that a baseball was square. Is this their idea of decorating a cupcake? How embarrassing!
- April 1, 2011 at 5:46 PM
I didn't even know that was a purse until I read teh comments.
- April 1, 2011 at 6:20 PM
- Casting Los Angeles said...
Lights! Camera! Fail! Are people actually proud of their works that look like this?
- April 1, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- Mags said...
HELP! Someone is buried in icing in that last cake!! He's reaching up for help!!!
- April 1, 2011 at 7:07 PM
- Unknown said...
I requested to be induced with my youngest boy on April Fool's Day! That's a lot of fun for his dad and I for a lot of years to come! Our oldest boy was born on Cinco de Mayo... that one is going to be fun for us! Happy Birthday to Jen's brother Ben and my son Chris!
- April 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM
I totally thought that the purse was a mailbox...and it took me quite a while to realize it wasn't, lol.
- April 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM
It's my 12 year old's birthday too, and I admit I kind of hoped when I ordered his cake it would turn out wreckie( a mom can dream). I also thought of having them put the wrong name on it and then getting another one that said Just Kidding..but yeah no I'm lame and didn't.
- April 1, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Hmm fell for a couple of gags today. I am so easily fooled lol. But erm are we really sure those are cakes? That first one looks like someone mashed it to death.
- April 2, 2011 at 1:08 AM
- amyandtenaya said...
is that lego one a turned-up cupcake tin that's been iced???? srsly that's bad lmfao
- April 2, 2011 at 5:54 AM
- Halfsh0t said...
.... I actually have a friend named Ben who was born on April 1st. I am fairly certain this isn't your brother..... but now I'm insanely curious....
- April 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM
- cman said...
I thought maybe someone had baked a cupcake pan into that lego cake.
- April 2, 2011 at 12:32 PM
Don't normally post, but I just finished reading SuBee's comment and noticed my wv: crotcho.
I just had to share. ;)
Love this blog!
**cynthia - April 2, 2011 at 12:41 PM
I love that my square baseball contribution made it into Cake Wrecks on April Fools' AND Opening Day!
For those who don't mind a killjoy factual type, #6 was from my grocery store, who was forced to make a bunch of individual servings of cake for a company-wide sale over a few weeks. Some of them were perfectly acceptable, if not even nice, but toward the end at least one decorator seems to have lost the will to live or at least care. - April 2, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Happy birhtdays to the big brothers!
I hid under the bed for twenty minutes waiting for my husband to come out of the shower so I could yell and grab his ankle. - April 3, 2011 at 12:04 AM
- Miles Johnson said...
I'd never miss an opportunity to wish a fellow Aries Happy Birthday! I love seeing my name in the photo credits, even though I didn't submit any of the cakes. Jen, are you playing an April Fool's day joke on me? If so, I'm thrilled!
- April 3, 2011 at 3:25 AM
After reading through all the comments, apparently I'm the only one that saw ironing board on the "champagne" cake.
Not sure what that says about me.
Even worse, my second thought was Jewish ironing board. I think its the colors of the 'labels' and the little hat... - April 3, 2011 at 4:29 AM
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- April 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Jen....You probably already know this, but I wanted to let you know that Nikki Jackson--the "creator" of the life-size-bride wedding cake (with the red ribbon down the side) --is on a new Food Network Challenge show called "Last Cake Standing". Apparently her cake was a "worldwide phenomenon". Yikes...I guess she didn't see it on Cake Wrecks, and your witty comment regarding how the bride is looking at her cake in the photo you posted. The cake was a nice sculpture...just a tad narcissistic, which I thin you pointed out. (I couldn't find that cake in the archives...that's why I posted it here.)
I'll keep you posted.
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Yesterday, during another lunch break (maybe I have lunch too often), I met a student who's at Sussex for the annual International Summer School--which as far as I can tell has just American students, but I may be wrong about that. At any rate, there are a lot of Californian science students wandering around at the moment. She's working with my friend Maverick, who introduced me as "Lynne, whose blog I was telling you about". At the end of the conversation, the student--let's call her Santa Barbara, after her home university--told me she'd be (orig. AmE) checking out the blog soon. So in order to welcome her, I'm going to point out the little communication hiccup I observed in her interactions with BrE speakers yesterday. If you're reading, Santa Barbara, say 'hello'!
SB is doing a psychology study under Maverick's supervision, but she was having trouble recruiting other students from the summer school to take part. Looking for possible explanations, she said to Maverick--"Well, it's midterm." It looked to me like Maverick was not getting the relevance of this, but happily SB carried on to say "A lot of the students are Physics students, and they have a big exam today." I watched the same thing happen again when the Blinder joined our conversation and SB had to bring her (apparently orig. AmE) up-to-speed on what had been discussed so far. She may have said in at least one case "it's midterms". Again, I could see the Blinder not really getting it, until SB continued on about the physics exam.
When SB said midterm she meant an exam or examination period. The reason for this not transferring well to BrE is that midterm examinations are not very common in higher education in the UK. At our university, if we have tests during the term, they're called coursework tests (I'm not marking that as general BrE, since I can't speak for other universities). It's only very recent that students in UK higher education have testing during the academic term. When I started at Sussex nearly 10 years ago, students had their exams at the end of the academic year for all courses--even autumn term courses that had ended 5 or 6 months before. This was frequent examination as compared to the experience of my older UK-educated colleagues, who, 30 years ago or more, had to wait until the end of their three-year degree program(me) to be tested on everything they had been taught.
I expect that when the Blinder and Maverick heard midterm, they thought (BrE) half term--which is a holiday/vacation period in the middle of a term (though Maverick would know that these students didn't get a break--it's only a six-week program(me)). They can tell us in the comments if I'm wrong about that. I've discussed half term before, so please click on the link to see more discussion and discuss more.
Because US students have midterm exams to contrast them with, end-of-term exams tend to be referred to as final exams or finals, whereas UK students (at least at my [BrE informal] uni) tend just to talk about exams.
Here's another exam-related post, in case you're interested.
And so, to conclude my lunch hour: the fruit salad was rather disappointing. Back to the coalface--which is LynneguistE for 'library'.
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Whereas "finals" in British English means the exams at the end of the final year of university... or at least it did when I studied!
ReplyDeleteYou mention "holiday/vacation". I think "vacation" is probably one of the strangest sounding Americanisms for most British people, mainly because the word "vacate" is normally only encountered in toilet cubicles and changing rooms, so it does sound odd the first time one hears it since it doesn't have any connotations with anything pleasant like going on holiday. (For some reason writing about "vacation" reminds me of when my father used the word "derelict" when speaking to an American woman, to describe an abandoned house. I remember she was quite surprised by that usage).
I've always had the impression that "uni" wasn't originally British. If it's not American I wonder if it came from Australia; it sounds like one of the informal contractions that Australians are fond of.I was thrown by the use of quickie in the first line. I thought this post might have been a bit racier.
ReplyDeleteAs a British person I would never use "vacation" for a trip, but in formal writing I would be unsurprised to see it used for the period when you don't have to be at university. In particular the "long vacation" for the summer break is something I might actually say, if I was still at uni.
So do American students have six lots of exams a year then? That must take a significant amount of time.@Mark: Exams in the US take nowhere near the amount of time that they do in the UK. In the UK, there tends to be an entire month given over to examining (and then another for marking). In the US, there will be a week or two for exams at the end of a course. Midterms are usually given in class.
@AndyJS: Uni is definitely not AmE--we tend to call it college. You're right that it's originally Aus/NZ. But on the 'is it BrE or AmE' criterion, I marked it as BrE because it is used here (A LOT by the present university-going generation).@Gemma and expateek: you're as bad as my students who titter when I say they should be promiscuous in their use of sources for their essays. Or I'm as bad as myself. Depends on one's perspective, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes have three or four exams in a subject each semester, be it quarter/midterm/final or just tests called "exams." Final exams, at the end of the term, are held during one week, with a "reading day" on Wednesday to break it up. I've had as many as three exams on a day, each two hours long, which shocks my European friends, who have days in between their exams to cram.
The big distinction, I think, is that in American education a big emphasis is placed on learning along the way-- homework, quizzes, tests, papers, and so on, culminating with a final exam worth maybe 20% of the grade. In most of the rest of the world, the focus is on the one big exam, and lots of students coast until they get there and then learn everything at the end before the test. (Or at least, that's what I've seen, having studied in France and Russia as well as America. Correct me if I'm wrong.)Most US law school courses use the single test at the end of a semester approach as well.
ReplyDelete- graciela15 July, 2009 16:28
Do British people not say "checking it out?"
I think Canadians say "uni" though I could be wrong. @graciela: Note that I said it's 'orig. AmE' not just 'AmE'. That means it's a phrase of American origin, which is used around the world by now.
ReplyDeleteI was the last undergrad year at Sussex that tested everything learned in 3 years over the space of one week at the end of the third year - big capital-lettered FINALS week. (That was 1995).
At my uni here in western Canada we usually have mid-terms at least for undergrads but also have a reading week to soften the blow.
I was surprised here that even (post)graduate students do exams.@graciela
I don't feel qualified to speak for all of Canada (since I'm American), but at my university in eastern Canada, while some people said uni, generally people went with university. Americans were quickly cured of saying college, because people thought you were in CEGEP if you said it.
@E. Louise
And I remember reading week. It was like spring break, but in February, so none of my friends form other schools in the US were off. Well, at least I got my birthday off.
My Canadian exams (both midterm and final) were much like American ones described, though we wrote them instead of taking them. Also they were graded on a different scale than my American high school ones.Is up-to-speed hyphenated in BrE? As a native AmE, looks wrong except as an adjective (up-to-date look, e.g.). A quick Google search seems to be inconclusive.
ReplyDeleteThere's much less hyphenation in Standard BrE than in AmE or LynneE, but I've given up on indicating variations in hyphenation (except where I'm doing the post on the subject) because it's just too messy.
I could have gone without hyphenation there, but that was just how it came out when I typed it...Interesting to hear people talking about having all university work tested at the end of three years in England.
I graduated 22 years ago, and the practice then - which I thought was universal here - was that there were exams at the end of the first year which you had to pass to continue on the course, but these didn't count towards the final degree. The class of degree awarded depended entirely on the second and third years' work. (In my case examined at the end of each year with a 40:60 weighting between second and final years.)@Shaun C: I don't know how it worked back in the day--that is, whether the people who tell me about all the examining being way at the end of the degree were also tested at the end of year 1. But it certainly is the case that in most English universities (I won't presume to speak for Scotland!) the first year has to be passed but doesn't count toward your final 'classification'.
But degree classification is a completely foreign concept to Americans, who simply get a grade point average, which includes all courses/all years, and a transcript with all the details. (Use of transcripts--by employers, for example--is increasing in the UK.) I guess I'll have to blog about that soon. 'Tis the season, after all!
Having just been to an exam board (also a foreign concept for an American) today, I can tell you that one can certainly see the effect of the first year 'not counting' in some students' records!Interesting that hyphenation was mentioned earlier. I'm not certain but I think there are no set rules about hyphenation; you can use as much or as little as you like, it's more like choosing the style you want to write with; of course various newspapers/magazines will have a standard that they like to stick to in their publications. It's nice being able to have a choice, similar to the way you can choose whether to use s's or z's in British English words like realise/realize. I've always thought the z form has a more modern, cutting-edge feel to it, so if you're writing about the latest scientific developments, for example, I think it feels more suitable. In a classic novel, though, I'd prefer the s form. That's just my personal preference, I don't know whether anyone else has similar thoughts. But with hyphenation, maybe the rules are more rigid in America than here in Britain. I'm interested to find out more about it.
ReplyDelete@Kel - not all European students would be shocked at the idea of multiple exams in one day. In fact, most British students up until around 10 years ago would have experienced this throughout their education (and some may do still, I don't know). In my own experience, this was most acute during my (BrE) finals (i.e. at the end of my final year of university, on which my entire degree classification depended. I had three-hour exams on Thurs am, Thurs pm, Fri am, Fri pm, Sat am, Mon am, Tues pm. You just had to know everything you were going to know at the start and then keep going on adrenaline through the rest. Fun!
ReplyDeleteUni is originally Australian, I believe, but now in widespread use here in England (I can't speak to the rest of the UK); certainly it was when my daughter went, ten years ago. I was very confused by her exams - I think she only had one formal exam, the rest was assessments of various kinds, including an extended essay.
Don't Oxbridge students talk about the "long vac" (never "vacation"), pronounced as in vacuum cleaner?- Anonymous16 July, 2009 18:49
I think "Uni" became popular at first along with the success of "Neighbours" on TV. At it's height, the character Mike was attending University, and of course it was always referred to as Uni. That seems to coincide with when the contraction initially became popular in the UK.
Mike was played by Guy Pearce incidentally. GCSEs and A Levels (for age sixteen, seventeen and eighteen) which are taken at school or college in the UK (school and college being different to each other and not university in BrE) can be two or more hours and you can have two or three a day, it just depends on the subjects.
I always had trouble with 'midterms' because I assumed it couldn't be important if it came in the middle of the term. [Do they even have terms in the US? I thought it was semesters throughout] I don't kow why but exams only seem serious to me if they come at the end of the year. Otherwise they're just a test, which is a minor assessment.@Solo: American universities have either semesters or quarters (usu. about 10 weeks each, like a Sussex term--and which are only 'quarters' if you include the optional summer term, which won't be 10 weeks, in your figuring). Term is used generally to refer to either type of division.
ReplyDelete- mollymooly17 July, 2009 00:11
Ireland uses "mid-term", not "half term", though not usually in the tragically ironic sense of Seamus Heaney's "Mid Term Break"
ReplyDelete - Cameron17 July, 2009 22:57
As far as I remember, when I went to uni in Glasgow in 1982, it was already called "uni", and that is long before Neighbours.
Also, it is usually important to remember that there is no such thing as a British education system. Scotland, Northern Ireland and England/Wales all have different and separate systems. - the_sybil18 July, 2009 23:37
From an English (as opposed to Scottish) perspective I would agree with "anonymous" that the contraction "uni" only started to be used after "Neighbours" became popular in England.
And for me (attending uni in the UK about 15 years ago) "Finals" definitely referred only to the exams at the very end of my degree, even though the previous year's end-of-year exams also contributed towards my final grade. - Jethed19 July, 2009 13:26
Kel, that sounds about right to me - I studied in both the US and UK for my degree, and I sat a far greater number of tests in the US. However, I think the longest test I ever sat in the US was two hours, whereas in the UK I wouldn't blink an eye at three or more hours. I was also shocked at first at the informality of testing in the US, with a different format for each class, no exam conditions beyond silence, no external (or internal, for that matter) moderation, lecturers putting in comedy questions... I think that's probably down to the continuous assessment you described taking the focus off the test.
The US has far less emphasis on coursework as I understand it, that is in the form of extended essays, reports or projects - I found myself doing homework every week instead, often consisting only of a question sheet or brief presentation. I think it's mostly down to the difference in attitudes between the countries, with the US approach being heavily guided and the UK independent. That's what allows UK students to coast, with occasional bursts of intense activity, whilst US students are forced to read what they're told every week. My studies in the US were certainly more structured and disciplined than in the UK.
PS Sorry for the massive post, once I warm to a theme it's unstoppable. Having (Br? Sc? E) invigilated / (Am?E) proctored a few exams now in Scotland, I definitely share a sense of the comparative formality surrounding exams in the UK. I'm always blown away by the tendency of all students to take the full time alotted (3-4 hours sometimes), and not to leave early. By the end of my exams at the University of Washington, in comparison, usually very few students remained. Especially at the more introductory level courses, I'd say the majority probably left during the first half. I really like the word 'invigilate', and hope one day to be able to use it, to general consternation, in America.
Sidetrack, about 'derelict' houses, @Andy JS. 'Derelict' sounds OK to me, but a Scottish friend of mine was once highly amused when I described a building as having been 'condemned', as if it were a criminal awaiting execution."I think "Uni" became popular at first along with the success of "Neighbours" on TV."
Possibly related to the fact that Neighbours is very popular with students in the UK.
"I'm always blown away by the tendency of all students to take the full time alotted (3-4 hours sometimes), and not to leave early."
Why is that surprising? In my experience, past GCSE you're almost always writing up to the time limit and given that the exams count for so much if not all of your degree, leaving early seems to be a risky strategy. The only time I considered leaving an exam early was my Latin GCSE, which was a combination of translation and composition and which I had completed to the best of my ability about 45 minutes before the end. On essay subjects, however, I was always pushed for time.- biochemist20 July, 2009 12:20
In the late 1960s my UK red-brick [municipal foundation of the 19th C] university had a vaguely intellectual social club for postgraduates known as the 'Varsity Club'- thus derived from the second half of the word. It was the only time anyone used a word other than University - it wouldn't do to refer to it as 'college', which implied further or technical education, nor would we ever use 'school' in the US way. I didn't hear Uni until the 1980s; it has a far more casual and lively feel, reflecting the higher social expectations of modern students....
ReplyDelete @Stephen Jones: In the American system, more emphasis is given to feedback along the way. So, you have a lot of assessments and try to do better on the next one, given what you learned through the previous ones. In the first-year English (writing) courses I used to teach in Illinois and Texas, this meant a 5-page essay every 2 weeks (around 1500 words). They usually take 2 or 3 other courses at the same time--with less essay writing, I must say. My first-year students in the UK (in a regular, 12-credit course) write one such essay (or a longer one in upper-level courses) per term while taking 3 other courses.
The British system is trying to do better at continuous feedback, but it was already lagging behind the American system (due to its history of end-of-course assessment) when increased pressure on the system (i.e. lots more students) required that assessment be cut back a lot in a lot of places. So, whereas students used to do a lot of unassessed work for feedback at my university, there's a lot less of that now that we have 20 students per seminar group rather than 8 or 12. Now, before the students of today conclude that they're getting the short shrift, I should note that the amount-per-item and means of getting feedback to students has become much better at the same time. It used to be that students who submitted an essay at the end of term got nothing but the mark (and not even the mark if it was averaged in with other marks for the same course module)--now they get the (BrE) tutor's comments electronically and I think also the essay itself. (I've lost track--as the distribution is done by the admin staff, not the tutors.)
With the 'no child left behind' program(me) of the Bush administration, I understand that the US got as testing-mad as the UK already was, with lots of standardized testing at many more points in the primary/secondary curricula than previously. But as far as I know, the US still doesn't have the thing that drives the testing system to be absolutely crazy: parental choice of schools led by (BrE) published league tables that tell you how well as school is doing with respect to these tests. (I think NCLB is linked to school funding, though? Someone in the US now will have to fill me in.) Part of the reason why the US has less choice on which (AmE) public/(BrE) state school you can go to is that British state/public schools include religious schools. So within the zone ([BrE] catchment area were I live, there are state Anglican, Catholic and a few secular primary schools, and when it's time for Grover to go, we'll have to research which ones we'd rather she went to, apply and keep our fingers crossed. There is some element of choice in some (usually urban) parts of the US too--but in my hometown, there were three (now two) state/public primary schools, and you could only go to the one that was nearest your house--unless your parents paid for you to go to the Catholic school.It's my understanding that Oxbridge has a lot more essay writing than most redbricks. In theory, on my Eng. Lit. course we were supposed to do an essay (2k-3k words) every week, on top of Old English translation or similar coursework for optional courses. In practice, that wasn't always the case, but certainly 6+ essays a term was about the norm. None of that actually counted toward your degree, but you got detailed feedback during the tutorials.
ReplyDeleteBrE "catchment area" is best translated as "school district" in AmE, I think...although Lynneguist's experience was the same as mine (in New Jersey), recent reforms have changed that somewhat...NCLB allows students (AmE meaning is broader; I'd use "pupils" in BrE here) in the worst-performing schools to transfer to schools outside the district.
Plus, as outside the Northeast (in Virginia and Florida, for example) school districts are much larger, there's the phenomenon of "magnet schools," which are competitive-admission state institutions kinda sorta like the endangered "grammar school" (BrE), but that's another post :)Thanks, Emmet. I was drawing a blank on 'school district'. This is actually a terminology distinction that's in my 'requests' inbox, so maybe someday it'll be its own post too.
ReplyDelete- Aoife22 July, 2009 13:22
I lived with Americans for the latter two of my three years at Sussex (different Americans on and off, 4 in total, but with great kitchen area usually more hanging around), and hd these discussion a lot.
Most of them felt through the term that they weren't being pushed, weren't having to do any work, and that British Uni was much easier than American college. Then it came to the end of term and they all ended up pulling teary all-nighters and condemning the British system as impossibly hard. This amused me, as the British eductional system had well-prepared me for generally coasting with spurts of work finishing in a mental hubub of essays and exams coming from all courses within a week or so of each other. I wonder if it creates different working styles altogether? I certainly know enough British "grown-ups" in the world of work who leave deadlines to the last minute then rush (successfully) through them as if it were perfectly natural to do so!
As for the Uni/University/College debate... my partner spent his formative years in America, and travelled there a lot to see friends and relatives. Is this why he frequently refers to University as 'school', even at the DPhil level ("I have school early tomorrow" for a research meeting, for example)? Or is it just an annoying affectation? (not that it grates on me every time I hear it, that would be dreadfully prescriptive of me :) ) Hi Aoife: We did the 'school' thing back here (and as it's come up again elsewhere--click the 'education' tag for more).
ReplyDelete- Aoife22 July, 2009 13:32
PS. Speaking of immature sniggers over "quickie" and "promiscous", it triggered a memory that I think might be about the Am/Br Eng divide.
In school we all laughed heartily when an American book we were reading (To Kill a Mockingbird? Or something by Steinbeck perhaps?) made mention of the 'penal system'. Now, I suspect it's of original British use, as OED says it comes from Anglo-Norman, but is it more regularly used in America these days? In my head I hear it in an American accent, alongside 'penal code'. To hear it in a British accent sounds, to me, almost like an old-fashioned use. BrE (Scot) I went to Glasgow University in the mid 70s, not long after the increase in numbers of university students following Harold Wilson's "white heat of technology speech". I've been told that, at that time, student numbers went from about 10% of school leavers to about 15%. (To confirm this starts to turn an interest into a job).
Even that early, I heard students talk about "uni", although it was a term used by a small minority. The academic staff deplored this. The more elitist among them associated it with the "extra" students who "wouldn't have been allowed through the door in my day". The other "crime" associated with the extra students (supposedly) was the wearing of sweatshirts with university logos, even if you were not involved in sport, and were not a member of a team.


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Stitches (sutures) with dressings or bandages may be put on the incisions.
The small puncture wounds created by the arthroscope and probing tools may take several days to weeks to heal.
Recovery time varies. But most arthroscopic surgery is done on an outpatient basis. This means you can go home within hours after the surgery. Some people get back to their normal activity in a few days or weeks. Athletes and other people in good physical condition may return to athletic activities in a few weeks, under the care of their healthcare provider.
The joints most often examined using arthroscopy include:
The following are the conditions most often found during an arthroscopic procedure:
Inflammation. This includes in the lining (synovium) of the knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, or ankle
Injuries. These include:
Rotator cuff tendon tears, impingement syndrome, and recurrent dislocations in the shoulder
Meniscal (cartilage) tears, chondromalacia (wearing or injury of cartilage cushion), and ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears with instability in the knee
Pieces of loose bone or cartilage. This is particularly in the knee, shoulder, elbow, ankle, or wrist.
Always see your healthcare provider for a treatment recommendation based on your own condition.