What is this cake trying to say?

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There’s a pretty funny (IMHO) Buzzfeed link that shows 24 decorated cakes that went wrong. What do you think #5 was trying to say? I can’t parse it.

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Bennigan’s was/is? a restaurant/bar. The one in my city closed in the 90’s. Google search for Bennigan’s finds this.

Bogie’s Bar and Grill (formerly Bennigan’s Grill and Tavern)

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Those are all great.

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I remember it as well but I don’t think that’s what the person ordering the cake was actually going for. AFAICT, the author of the article was just guessing.

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My best guess is that it’s two different phrases: “40 forever”, which I suspect was what was supposed to be written on the cake, and “Begian’s getting”, which I’m guessing is a direction for pickup. If the order was taken over the phone, Begian could be a badly mangled spelling of someone’s name.

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Those cakes are all lies.

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I think it was supposed to say “40 Begins Forgetting” - an “over the hill” reference.

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I read it as “40 begins forever” but what you said makes sense. forgetting=forever getting. Toss in some misspelled words and a ‘here comes an S’ apostrophe and you have a cake that doesn’t even sorta make sense.

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Then there was the time someone ordered a cake that said:

YOU’RE NOT GETTING OLDER
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
YOU’RE GETTING BETTER

But they ended up with:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
YOU’RE NOT GETTING OLDER ON TOP
YOU’RE GETTING BETTER ON THE BOTTOM

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Wait…the headline says 24 *People *Who Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Decorate Cakes, but all the pictures are cakes, not people!
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Cake Wrecks

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I was thinking “40 begins forever forgetting,” but same basic idea.

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Or it could be what was meant to be written on the person’s pants: “Don’t Open 40 Inside”.

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I think they were going for “Life begins at 40”

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I wonder if “Happy Bathday” was decorated by someone raised in Africa. Many Africans speak English with an amazingly profound avoidance of any trace of an “r” sound. It goes way beyond “non-rhotic” – at least typical British and southern American accents add some r-coloring to their vowels. But typically not people whose first language is a subsaharan African one (I know that includes a lot of disparate languages). “Work,” for example, often sounds exactly the same as “wek.”