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demmiblue

(36,742 posts)
Tue May 22, 2018, 08:00 AM May 2018

Proud mom orders 'Summa Cum Laude' cake online. Publix censors it: Summa ... Laude.

Source: WaPo

Saturday was Jacob Koscinski’s big day. His whole family, many from out of town, saw the Charleston, S.C., student graduate from his Christian-based home-school program with a 4.89 grade-point average and the coveted honor of summa cum laude.

His mother, Cara Koscinski organized a graduation party for her 18-year-old son. For the occasion, she ordered a cake online from her nearest grocery store, Publix, which lets customers build their own cakes complete with a customized inscription, which they enter into a message box marked “cake message option.”

Carefully, she typed in the words she wanted on the cake: “Congrats Jacob! Summa Cum Laude class of 2018.”

Publix’s online system was unhappy with the word “cum.”


More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/22/proud-mom-orders-summa-cum-laude-cake-online-publix-censors-it-to-summa-laude/?utm_term=.1832e83a7039&tid=sm_tw


Good Laude! Also, this: "...graduate from his Christian-based home-school program with a 4.89 grade-point average..."
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Proud mom orders 'Summa Cum Laude' cake online. Publix censors it: Summa ... Laude. (Original Post) demmiblue May 2018 OP
Trophys for everyone Bob Loblaw May 2018 #1
How does it feel to be bit on the butt by heavy-handed ignorant censorship? Girard442 May 2018 #2
I bet they have no employee named Dick dalton99a May 2018 #3
Would his cake say "Happy Birthday ... !"? Girard442 May 2018 #5
Publix zipplewrath May 2018 #4
Glad to know I'm not the only one who calls them that. GoCubsGo May 2018 #16
4.89 GPA? dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #6
Christian Home School MineralMan May 2018 #7
AP courses count more than non-AP courses...thus you can have a GPA above 4.0. Demsrule86 May 2018 #10
AP classes Madam Mossfern May 2018 #15
And he doesn't know what cum means?... lame54 May 2018 #18
So Mom graded his papers and gave him that GPA IronLionZion May 2018 #8
The tv series The Good Fight had a bit about a Trump appointed judge dixiegrrrrl May 2018 #17
What in the article gives you enough info to question his competence? NCTraveler May 2018 #19
Publix becomes HAB911 May 2018 #9
Pubix should have called the cops on her Chipper Chat May 2018 #11
Spanish, Latin, Who'll Notice? ProfessorGAC May 2018 #13
"christian based home school program" tells u everything u need to know MariaCSR May 2018 #12
Do tell. nt NCTraveler May 2018 #20
LOL @ "good Laude" MariaCSR May 2018 #14
Should have made it "Ima lick this cake off your hoo hoo". LuckyCharms May 2018 #21
Hmm. Somebody's bee watching a wee bit too much porn ismnotwasm May 2018 #22
This reminds me of decades ago when AOL censored the word "breasts" Blue_Adept May 2018 #23

Girard442

(6,058 posts)
2. How does it feel to be bit on the butt by heavy-handed ignorant censorship?
Tue May 22, 2018, 08:10 AM
May 2018

Besides, what kind of Christian decorates a cake with unamerican words? What would Jesus think?

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
4. Publix
Tue May 22, 2018, 08:25 AM
May 2018

It's kinda funny considering it's Publix. First time I ever saw a Publix, I laughed. I wasn't quite sure how to pronounce it and I jokingly called it "Pube licks".

Madam Mossfern

(2,340 posts)
15. AP classes
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:26 AM
May 2018

bring the score up beyond 4.0

My daughter was valedictorian and and a GPA that was similar.
She got one B in her entire high school career - and that was because I had just had a near fatal
heart attack and she became the surrogate mom to her siblings.

lame54

(35,130 posts)
18. And he doesn't know what cum means?...
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:23 AM
May 2018

He was humiliated from a hyphen on a cake?
Mom turns a minor annoyance into a major outrage

IronLionZion

(45,250 posts)
8. So Mom graded his papers and gave him that GPA
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:46 AM
May 2018

Sounds like he is very well prepared for a life in the real world.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
17. The tv series The Good Fight had a bit about a Trump appointed judge
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:46 AM
May 2018

that was funny.... but not in real life.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
13. Spanish, Latin, Who'll Notice?
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:20 AM
May 2018

Even dead languages were spoken by them furriners. Only furriners and them there elites do any language other than 'merkan.

Blue_Adept

(6,384 posts)
23. This reminds me of decades ago when AOL censored the word "breasts"
Tue May 22, 2018, 02:13 PM
May 2018

And ended up deleting breast cancer survivor groups and the like.

Stupid decision not thought through by stupid people.

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