i’m gonna figure on a well meaning person, going a bit astray.
a moment or 2 of silence is about as far as i would go in the workplace.
This sounds like something Michael from “The Office” would do.
You should have thrown a fit and said your uncle was killed.
Well, it could have been worse. It could have had smoking debris on top of the cake.
Hey, hold that bus!
Good thing it wasn’t a souffle, you know how easily those fall.
We’re going to need a bigger bus.
I don’t understand the outrage. Sure, it’s a bit dumb, but it doesn’t strike me as something to get pissed over.
Good grief. What next… Katrina Brownies?
I really wish I could say I was at all surprised.
But my dorm sophomore year definitely had a 9/11 cake. They also served All-American foods like burgers, hot dogs, and apple pie. With balloons and streamers everywhere.
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Needless to say, we were all more than a little creeped out.
ETA: Hell yes, still a Charter Member.
Wouldn’t they be too soggy?
Yeah, it should be Katrina Taffy.
Saltwater, of course.
Not really. 
It’s definitely very tacky and more people would be made uncomfortable than “helped.” Still, the people who ate that cake probably enjoyed it more than I enjoyed watching all that archival footage on the History Channel.
I have to admit I’m amazed that we didn’t have a pause at work for a moment of silence or something, especially since we’re gov’t employees. Come to think of it, the only announcements were regarding the front lobby being closed so the tiles could be resealed.
At the risk of souding like a heartless commie terrorist sympathizer, I wish people would quit rending their garments over 9/11 and expecting the world to join in. Yes, it was tragic and a life-altering event. But life still goes on. I don’t need to see videos of the flaming towers crashing over and over again - seeing them that day was quite enough.
I heard on the news about firefighters in (?) Colorado, I think, who don all of their gear and climb the equivalent of the height of the towers. I understand that it’s supposed to be a tribute, but I don’t get it. I doubt that those who died are looking down from their heavenly clouds and smiling, and I’m not sure, had I lost someone that day, that I’d care about such a tribute. Maybe I’m just a cynical old grouch.
And yeah, the cakes are pretty tacky. But I suppose people deal in their own ways. My sister has several strings of red, white and blue Christmas lights hung in her basement - she told me it was in honor of 9/11. I guess it makes her feel connected or something.
Indeed.
Let’s see…hey, what say we have some cake for the Indonesian earthquake of '79?
… You work at J. Peterman, don’t you?
I don’t see what’s so bad about it. It’s like when I celebrated April 20th with a cake.
German chocolate, of course.
I was shopping at Penney’s once and they were having a Father’s Day contest . . . they were giving prizes to the oldest father and the youngest father. I spoke to the manager about it. They withdrew the youngest-father part of the contest. I can see giving some 105-year-old dude in a nursing home a gift certificate, but rewarding Little Tommy because he knocked up his girlfriend? Sometimes NOT any press is good press, Cisco, and I was working at the newspaper at the time (though I was careful not to intimate that to the manager, I would have told my editor had they failed to to pull the contest).
Dammit - beat me to it!:smack:
Thought I was the only one who remembered that!
That’s odd, we always had brownies that day.