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Woman Who Requested Mariah Carey Cake Got Marie Curie Instead
Live Science ^
| June 17, 2019 09:23am ET
| Mindy Weisberger,
Posted on 06/17/2019 9:05:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A woman in England who recently celebrated her birthday requested a cake decorated with a picture of her favorite singer, Mariah Carey. However the birthday girl was probably feeling emotions when she saw the result, which was topped not with the singer of "Hero" but with the face of one of science's heroes: Marie Curie, who conducted groundbreaking work on radioactivity.
As a cake topper, the renowned scientist looked "very festive," said writer Harriet Alida Lye, who tweeted a photo of the cake on June 14.
Carey's prowess as a musician is notable: She is a world-renowned recording artist who earned five Grammy Awards since the release of her debut album in 1990.
However, Curie's accomplishments are arguably just as cake-worthy. She discovered the first evidence of radioactivity, a feat that in 1903 earned Curie and her husband Pierre Curie the Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded jointly with the French physicist Henri Becquerel.
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TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cake; mariahcarey; mariecurie
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:05:04 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It’s the radium in the frosting that sells it. Turn out the lights and her face glows.
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:07:16 PM PDT
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: gundog
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:08:14 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry is more significant than some mediocre music.
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:09:49 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: BenLurkin
So, she got a historic woman with brains instead of a ditzy, drug addled dingbat?
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:10:14 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:10:16 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: BenLurkin
Blame the immigrant Polish baker!
Regards,
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:12:45 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: BenLurkin
It looks like they kept the cake and made the best of it and had a proper laugh.
Good job.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:13:33 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
To: BenLurkin
Ah, yes, Marie Curie, woman of action. Don't laugh, when WWI broke out she outfitted a van with what was then a state-of-the-art X-ray unit and set out for the front with her daughter. That would be
Irene Joliot-Curie, who must have thought her Mum was nuts but went along. She, incidentally, was awarded a Nobel Prize as well, in chemistry, for identifying what she and her husband Frederic called "artificial radiation", which we call Beta decay. Counting her husband and her father, that's four Nobels in one family. Not bad, not bad...
To: Bullish; reg45
You left off "athlete"
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:13:53 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: reg45
Yep, hopefully they appreciate getting the history lesson. Maybe the cake requester didn’t even know about Madame Curie.
To: Billthedrill
Actually, five Nobels, counting Marie’s two. Damn...
To: BenLurkin
Happy Birthday to the English lady. Given my cure from prostate cancer using radiation therapy. My senitiments lay with Marie more than Mariah. I doubt playing Ms Careys music would have done anything but make my ears feel good. Ms Curies efforts though may haves saved my life. Hooray for all three ladies. 👍
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:15:06 PM PDT
by
Equine1952
(Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
To: Equine1952
Given my cure from prostate cancer using radiation therapy. My sentiments lay with Marie more than Mariah. Yes, indeed. I've never even heard of Mariah Carey.
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It takes a special kind of baker to make a mistake like that.
How frequently do they get people coming in requesting a Marie Currie Cake? And then one done in funereal black too.
At least the customer seemed to think it was amusing.
What if that happened in Chicago, with Quanquishia and LaMeeshia ready to pick up their cake? Katy bar the door!
To: lee martell
Think about the baker making the effort to track down a photo to screen onto the cake. Hey, I think this photo will work! How nice to be making a cake for a history lover!
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posted on
06/17/2019 9:25:29 PM PDT
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Rastus
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