My nephew was married last month to an English girl. Her mom made the wedding cake (she does it professionally, so I think she gave herself a discount). The cake seems sort of topical for this Board:
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When the time came, the bride's father, knife in hand, announced, "All right, everyone, it's now time to decapitate the cake."

Oh, it was a fruit cake, of course.

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I thought there were turtles all the way down... Nice idea.

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*lol* That's amazing. And is that Atlas I see there in the middle holding up the sky?

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So that answers the big question... it's a large table top that holds up the turtle, and large wooden legs that hold up the table top, and a large floor that holds up the wooden legs, and a larger earth that holds up the floor. Hmmmm.

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We need to keep Humphrey away from this thread. He might take issue with those elephants.

Gorgeous cake, though.

Bet that turtle doesn't move, though.

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"You can't erase icing."

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No...Cori Celeste, aka "the Hub". The mountain at the centre of the world. At the peak of the mountain is Dunmanifestin, th abode of the gods....

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441!!!! :)

Don't forget the elephants.

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That is an awesome cake, Jim. Nice one!

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A museum-quality cake, in my opinion.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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very nice design of the cake, they made, and concept is quite unique in tortoise is in sleeping position and standing elephants on his back like a small dining table design on the back of the tortoise very cute item and a clear photography by the photographer.

Some might like to know about the origin of the joke.

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It's based on Discworld. And I note that it's been done before.

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thanks for discworld toseek, the whole procedure has given therein, and this kind of cake is looking much popular though.

and one more word for argos, thanks fine link there "the joke".

is it distribute among the people after the wedding ceremony over! toseek. or it is kept only to decorate the table nearby the wedding place ?

And lo the people did prosper in the land of the icing, till that dread judgement day did come, bringing with it The Great Spatula!

Nice cake.

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I can see it now, death comes a riding, violin in one hand and over-sized spatula in the other....

I have never seen before such a fine cake and a nice discussion on wedding cake! marvelous

long ago I have seen the little company( I mean little children) were quarraling to get the equal proportion of the cake, when the wedding ceremony was over.

I love this....

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I was touched that cake on my screen, to take the taste of it, it was too pretty in formation, color combinations, type of cake, its fabrication methodology etc, since I am a fond of cakes, normally I don't spare to take atleast one slice to keep it on my tounge to taste it.

The idea of tortoise is also very fine.

sunil

Except that Great A'Tuin isn't a tortoise but a turtle (British English distinction), and isn't a he but a she.

Incidentally the elephants are Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen.

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Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Not just British English, either. Americans make the distinction, too, or ought to.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"