# Something I thought I would never actually see
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 2, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153 "2024-08-02T13:27:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/1 "2024-08-02T13:27:22Z")
It had rained overnight. The wooden porch railing felt clammy and damp as I clambered down this morning on my way to work. I usually go out my back door and through the alleys to get to the CTA bus stop. It’s shorter than going the front way, and my ankles hurt with all this wet weather.
Now, Chicago is famed for its alleys, because it allows for people to throw their garbage away incognito instead of just piling it up on the sidewalks like _some_ so-called world class cities, (cough)newyork(cough). So the alleys have rows of dumpsters lining them.
Sitting on top of one of these dumpster was a little yellow lump. As I approached I could see it was something that was crumbling and melting, and alive with swarming black flies. I looked at it, and saw yellow frosting. There were three layers of pockmarked pastry with blobs of cheese oozing out. I couldn’t tell if the flies in the frosting were so still because they were in heaven with of the sugar they were feasting on, or in heaven because they were dead.
Anyway, it occurred to me at that moment that someone HAD LEFT THE CAKE OUT IN THE RAIN!!!
In nearly sixty years, I had never thought that was an actual thing.
I wonder if anyone kept the recipe?
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/2 "2024-08-02T13:49:12Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#):
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> Anyway, it occurred to me at that moment that someone HAD LEFT THE CAKE OUT IN THE RAIN!!!
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> In nearly sixty years, I had never thought that was an actual thing.
Is it some other kind of non-actual thing?
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/3 "2024-08-02T13:49:14Z")
Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/4 "2024-08-02T13:53:15Z")
It took SO LONG to bake it!
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/5 "2024-08-02T14:02:48Z")
?? 🤔 ??
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/6 "2024-08-02T14:07:18Z")
I don’t think that I can take it…
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/7 "2024-08-02T14:07:37Z")
For those of you that are confused:
[MacArthur Park (song) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song))
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/8 "2024-08-02T14:59:29Z")
Once again foiled by my lack of ability to understand song lyrics.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/9 "2024-08-02T15:54:01Z")
Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark… .
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gh4zvQfDhi0/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Jurassic Park (Official HD Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4zvQfDhi0)
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/10 "2024-08-02T16:15:20Z")
Did that _need_ a spoiler box?
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/11 "2024-08-02T16:56:12Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#):
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> I wonder if anyone kept the recipe?
When I heard it years ago as a kid, I always thought it would be a cinch to scientifically analyze (what’s left of) the cake and reverse engineer the recipe.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/12 "2024-08-03T05:01:54Z")
Well, if you had to bring a song to life just be glad it wasn’t _Wreck on the Highway_.
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/13 "2024-08-03T13:33:15Z")
Yes indeed, but that song would still fit me because “I didn’t hear nobody pray” and I’m an atheist now.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/14 "2024-08-03T13:54:56Z")
That OP was _so_ well written, and definitely made me LOL!
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### Author:  [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-i-thought-i-would-never-actually-see/1005153/15 "2024-08-03T14:20:12Z")
Thanks! 😊