Last week, we played a little game called Headliners. Ever heard of it? It’s a PSB Original game of course. This time, it was all about Oathbama, and after tallying the votes, it looks like Tony won with his headline: “Obama bumbles oath; Bush honored by tribute”. We would have preferred bumblebees, but that’s just us.

With the Super Bowl coming up this Sunday, we at the Pake Shlake Band thought it would be a good time to bring out another PSB Original game. It’s still in the development stage, but right now the game’s called Bests and Worsts. Here’s how you play. We give you a category like “Worst Nickname for a Professional Football Team” and then your job is to come up with a good answer, like The Philadelphia Phumbles. Easy, right? Ok, let’s play.

Worst Nickname for a Professional Football Team.

Our answer is the Philadelphia Phumbles. Easy, right? Your turn. And we are sure you can do better than ours. So, do it!

(Oh and by the way, we are just gonna pick the winner for a while instead of going with the poll because the election’s over. Voting is passé.)

A few days ago, Mike talked about overhearing a snippet of conversation. So, we at the Pake Shlake Band have decided to amuse you with some more random snippets of conversation. Sometimes we will give you the origin, other times we won’t. Some will be real, others … not so real. But the important thing is, it’s all for your enjoyment. So, enjoy!

Random Snippets of Conversation (For Your Enjoyment)

• “Give ‘im the twister punch!!”
• “He was the rudest, lewdest, crudest nudist Buddhist there ever was.”
• “Let’s make a bet: How many people do you think will be in cat suits by the end of the week?”
• “When the light is off, they stink.”
• “We would have preferred bumblebees, but that’s just us.”

On Friday, we started another round of the PSB Original game Headliners. The article was about President Obama and the oath bumbling, and to refresh your memories, here it is again:

Barack Obama was named the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday in front of over 1.8 million supporters. At 12:06 PM, Obama began to be sweared in on the steps of the Capitol. Chief Justice John Roberts incorrectly read the oath of office, causing an awkward moment as Obama repeated the mistake. The following day, the two restated the oath in the White House correctly, but this time President Obama did not put his hand on a Bible.

It’s time to vote, so pick which should be the headline to that news article.

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Vote. It’s patriotic.

I saw this somewhere. It said

Einstein’s last words were in German. Because the attending nurse did not understand German, his last words will never be known.

False. Einstein’s last words might have been in German, but that doesn’t mean they’ll never be known. What about time machines? Heck, it’s Einstein we’re talking about, I bet he planned this whole thing so that somebody would make a time machine, travel back in time to when Old Alby was about to die, hear his last words, and translate them for us.

Then the dude would find out that Einstein’s last words were, “You dummy, use your future technology to save my life too while you’re at it.” In German of course.

I was walking down the street the other day, and I overheard a conversation that went something like this:

“Hey, wanna get some donuts at the Krispy Kreme?”
“Sure! Aw, wait, look! The light’s not on!”
“What does that mean?”
“The donuts are only warm and delicious when the light’s on. When the light is off, they stink.”

A kommon enough konversation for Krispy Kreme Konnoisseurs, but, imagine if you didn’t know about the Hot Light? And as these two people pass by, all you hear is someone say, “When the light is off, they stink.” What a strange conversation those two must be having!

Hello, everyone. Did you notice that we didn’t have a Super Heroes story last week?

Well we’ve been thinking: the story was on Chapter 52, that means 52 weeks, which is a year, by our calendar. So, we think it’s high time to give the Story Time a little Vacation Time, since no one should work a year straight without a little time off. Not even fictional characters. (Wait, are we fictional?) No, but we are playing fictional characters in the story. (Oh.)

To fill the void, we will be taking the opportunity to try out some new sections, so please give us your feedback, because we like nothing more than hearing electric guitars with the amps too loud. Wait, no, not that type of feedback. Give us your thoughts.

If you like what we are doing, tell us. If you don’t, dude, what’s your problem? Give us a break, we’re trying really hard here. (Well, not that hard.) Anyway, the point is, we are trying out some different stuff, so see if you like it. And don’t worry, our friendly heroes with odd powers will be back soon enough.

Last week, we asked everybody about to-be-President-now-already-is-President Obama’s cabinet. You told us who you wanted in, then you voted, and Emily wins by suggesting that wanted-to-be-President-now-is-not-President John McCain should be the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Congrats Emily, but really, congrats McCain!

This week, formerly-to-be-President-now-already-is-President-but-at-the-time-it-is-unclear-what-word-to-describe Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. 44th President, yes, but probably 1st formerly-to-be-President-now-already-is-President-but-at-the-time-it-is-unclear-what-word-to-describe. Anyway, because of this momentous occasion, we’ve decided to play another round of the PSB Original Game, Headliners.

Here’s the article summary, you’re job will be to come up with a headline:
Barack Obama was named the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday in front of over 1.8 million supporters. At 12:06 PM, Obama began to be sweared in on the steps of the Capitol. Chief Justice John Roberts incorrectly read the oath of office, causing an awkward moment as Obama repeated the mistake. The following day, the two restated the oath in the White House correctly, but this time President Obama did not put his hand on a Bible.

Here’s our headline:
Obama Brings Change: Rewords Presidential Oath

What’s yours?

Last week, we asked everyone about the new President’s cabinet. (And not his liquor cabinet.) We said we probably weren’t going to have a vote, but come on, when it comes to anything presidential, we have to vote. Just like in real life. We voted for the President and Vice President. Then we voted for Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton. Now we get to vote once again:

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You can only vote once, so make your decision wisely. And timely. Polls close tomorrow in the AM.

Hello all. Maybe you’ve noticed that we haven’t posted anything here recently. Maybe you haven’t. Maybe you’re all a bunch of ungrateful bums.

If you did notice, you may be wondering, “Why haven’t the Pake Shlake Band posted anything here recently.” You may not be. You may be thinking, “I hope they don’t call me an ungrateful bum. I don’t know if my ego can take it.”

Well regardless of what you’ve noticed or haven’t noticed, wondered or not wondered, we at the Pake Shlake Band have been taking a little vacation time without taking the vacation time if you know what we’re saying. You don’t know what we’re saying? Let us spell it out for you: VACATION!!! NO VACATION!!! WOO-HOO!!!

Did that help? How’s this: Saturday = Weekend. Sunday = Also weekend. Monday = M.L.K. Hol.i.day. Tuesday = Inauguration Day, Outofwork Day.

Yes we took the Presidential Inauguration as a day off. We live in DC. How could you expect us to get to work with all of the traffic? What’s that? You say we don’t need to drive anywhere to post articles on this here website? Oh yeah? What about web traffic? What about setting records for most consecutive sentences that end in a question mark? Huh?

Anyway, the moral of the story is if we don’t post, you shouldn’t go to work. Happy Holidays.