I recently had a birthday, and some friends were suggesting I am getting old. That’s simply not true. Now, the calendar might suggest I’m getting older, and I am indeed older than I was, but I’m not old. I don’t feel as old as the calendar says. So it’s mind over math. 🙂
Besides, old age is at least 10 years older than I am. It’s a moving target. 🙂
But whatever on the number of my actual age. I like to remind people that studies show that people who have the most birthdays tend to live the longest.
I figure at some point most everyone thinks it would be neat to somehow get in the Guinness Book of World Records. Today I had a random thought along those lines, but not for that purpose. I recently had a birthday (which was cancelled, BTW, for everyone who keeps bringing it up), and I was craving Cheetos. (We have some baked Cheetos here, which are good, though not quite the same… more like cheese popcorn than Cheetos. But I digress…) Anyway, if only I had a bag of Cheetos for every time someone said I was getting old… 🙂
Then I wondered what the world record would be for the most bags of Cheetos received as birthday gifts. That would be a fun record to break. 🙂 The concept could also be applied to Oreos…
I searched for a picture to go with this post and found this one. Supposedly the guy in the picture bought these industrial-sized bags of Cheetos direct from the factory for $65 per bag and bought 28 bags. I’m not sure I have sufficient space to store that many Cheetos in my house, and I’m most certain that the WAF (Wife Approval Factor) of that would be near 0. So maybe I won’t be chasing this world record after all… (though I still must admit it would be fun to try).
One of our regular readers had a birthday recently, and we were at one of my favorite restaurants, Los Amigos. So I had the waiters help celebrate, with their special birthday song. As you can see below, the special guest gets to wear a huge sombrero, and the waiters hit you on the head while they sing to you.  It’s a great time. You also get a free dessert out of it.
Anyway, in the era of cell phones with cameras, we were able to capture this event. And I’m posting one of the pictures here for this week’s caption contest. So what can you say about this situation and what the people involved might be thinking?
(To see the other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)
A lot of people are making birthday cakes with video game themes these days, but this one I’m about to show you really takes the cake. (That was a really bad pun, wasn’t it? Nonetheless, I refuse to apologize because some of you deserve it.  You know who you are.)  The design of this cake comes from the Nintendo Wii game Super Mario Galaxy (which is one of the best games ever, in case you didn’t know). Not only is it cake, but it’s also animated. There’s cake and Rice Krispy treats, but also electrical wiring, motors, MP3 players, a wooden frame, fiber optic lights, and so forth. (Obviously it’s not all edible, at least for normal people.)
For starters, here’s a picture of it:
But that picture is not a good representation of it. At the creators’ homepage, you can see a lot more pictures of it, up close and from different angles. (Just scroll past the text, unless you’re interested in that.) But they also have a video of the cake in motion, as well as a few behind-the-scenes shots. For your convenience, here’s the video:
I read the FAQ by the cake’s creators, and they’re not professional cake-makers.  In fact, they make just 2 cakes a year, or 3 if they volunteer one for a friend. In the FAQ, someone asked them why they don’t start a cake business, because someone would pay a lot of money for that. The creators said they don’t want to make it a business, though if someone offered them “a lot of money” they would build them a cake. However, no one has ever offered them money for it.
The same people have made numerous cakes, with themes like Elmo, Halo, Wheel of Fortune, and so on. That’s a lot of work for a birthday cake that gets destroyed rather quickly.  But, then again, there are sites that are talking about it (such as this one), so they are getting some publicity. Maybe they feel famous.
I think it’s pretty safe to say I never got a birthday cake like that… but that’s okay, because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and people like me. Â I don’t need any fancy cake to tell me I’m special.
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