Dibs on the slice with “cum” on it!
From the same crowd that went bonkers over the use of the term “niggardly”?
People are morons.
In other news, people are morons.
One subtlety is that since the kid was home schooled, he didn’t know the vulgar meaning of cum until the cake didn’t spell it out.
Dennis
Too bad he didn’t graduate smegma cum laude.
Regards,
Shodan
How does a home-schooled kid *not *graduate at the top of his class?
As said elsewhere - “We are living in the prequel to Idiocracy.”
This is exactly what I came in here to say. Bet he was an only child.
It was an online system with a rude word filter that wasn’t smart enough to know Latin phrases. Kind of waters down the “people are morons” headline narrative.
I would have substituted * with the highest distinction * and ordered that on the cake.
It is surprising a bakery wasn’t familiar with standard graduation phrases. A computer filter certainly should recognize these standard latin phrases.
no one ever gave me a cake when I graduated. I was expected to graduate.
Credit to @TheRickWilson…
But if you’d been top of your class of 60 living in a shoebox in the middle of the road, you’d have been disappointed not to be given a damp cloth to suck on.
A shoebox? Luxury!
I guess they just didn’t think the headline Publix online cake ordering system omits common Latin phrase from database was quite so compelling.
I’m pretty sure Summa cum laude doesn’t mean “top of the class.” It applies to a GPA.
Or was I just whooshed here…?
Honors can be a great motivation.
I wasn’t a good student. Making the Deans List meant a lot to me in college. I got a letter at the end of the semester.
It’s not a high award, but I worked my ass off for it.
I understand it to mean “with highest honor,” awarded to graduates in the top 1-5% of their class.
And I believe ** ElvisL1ves** was referring to the fact that homeschooled kids tend to be in a “class” of just themselves and their siblings, if any.
Yes, and there’s also the question of how objective home-school grades and honors can ever be.