Archive for April, 2009

And now for a musical interlude.

By Johnny

It’s time for some MUSIC!!! Everybody put on your headphones – we don’t want to distract the people around you, do we?

Then, click play, and start singing your favorite song as loud as you can.

[Imaginary play button]

(Clicking play is optional.)


100 Days

By Mike


April Showers

By Pake Shlake Band

Who wants a joke?

Mike: If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
Johnny: I don’t know. What?
Mike: Pilgrims!
Johnny: And what do pilgrims bring?
Mike: Um, what?
Johnny: Rifles, supplies, diseases the Native Americans are ill-equipped to combat.
Mike: And what do diseases bring?
Johnny: Enmity, violence, reparations, the song “Cherokee People” by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Mike: That song is called “Indian Reservation(The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian).”
Johnny: Oh.


Bear Advice

By Johnny

People always say that when you’re being chased by a bear, you should climb a tree or play dead.

I say you should get out your cellphone, call your family, and say, “I love you. But I just pissed off a bear.”


Space Blobs

By Pake Shlake Band

Are you ready for some Game Time? Well get ready. Because it’s Game Time.

Last week, we played another round of the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts, and this one was all about the First Puppy. The DOTUS if you will. We asked for the best name of a Presidential Pet, and this is what you guys came up with.

Nick said Rover Cleveland. That’s funny – like Grover Cleveland but Rover instead of Grover. Get it?
Sami said Ruff-erford B. Hayes. That’s funny too – like Rutherford B. Hayes but Ruff-erford instead of Rutherford. Get it?

Thing is, we said Chester A. Arfer as our guess, and while good answers, these two were too similar to ours. Next time, you should just type our answer back in and you’ll save yourself some time.

Lorenzo had some weird formula to come up with his pet’s name and the answer came out to be … 2 pi r. No no no. George Jefferson of course. A great name for a character in a sitcom – so great he might even deserve his own spinoff- but not good dog material.

Sid said something about Ronaldo, and Tony said something inappropriate about lady dogs, but the winner goes to… Luca! Maverick would be the perfect name for President Obama’s new puppy. Mainly because it’s gonna pee wherever it wants.

Now on to this week’s game. A PSB Original Game? Of course! We’ll be playing a new round of the PSB Original Game Headliners. Here’s the news snippet for you:
Scientists have discovered a a mysterious, giant object 12.9 billion light-years away. When looking at objects that far away, astronomers are actually viewing what the object looked like billions of years ago when the universe was just forming. The gas cloud is much older than similar Lyman-Alpha blobs found by astronomers and has much more mass. The blob was named Himiko after a mysterious Japanese queen whose past is just as unknown.

And here’s our headline for the story:
Astronomers Forget It’s Called Earth Day, Not Space Blob Day

Think you can do better? No? Come on, you’ve gotta have more self esteem than that. Post your headline in the comments.


Allergy Season

By Johnny

I’ve got springtime allergies, and based on my nose, it is officially spring time. As of 6:12 yesterday evening.

At around 6:10, I started thinking, “Hey, my allergies haven’t bothered me yet. This is awesome. Maybe I have finally learned to control myself and can combat the sneezing and itchy eyes through mental will power.” Then I sneezed.

If only there were a baby around, he’d probably think I’m pretty funny right now.


Alarm

By Mike

I forgot that I had set my alarm to go off at 6:30 AM today. When it went off, I was alarmed. Well done.


Coches

By Johnny

So I was thinking a bit about cars (you know, cars meaning coaches). Isn’t it weird that the gas we put into cars isn’t gas – it’s liquid? And the oil isn’t really oil because nobody would want to cook french fries in it.

Next thing you’re gonna tell me is that antifreeze isn’t a superpower.


On Voskres

By Mike

I was driving past a church the other day and there was a banner outside that said, “He is Risen!” Seeing as it is the Easter season, and the banner was outside a church, this was not too surprising.

But, since I was driving and I didn’t get a good look at it, at first I thought the banner said, “He is Russian!” Now, that did come as a surprise to me.


Presidential Pooches

By Pake Shlake Band

Well, well, well! Is it that time of the week already? Yes, yes it is. Game Time!

We played the PSB Original game “Bests and Worsts” last week, where we asked you for the worst topic in which to take a crash course. Let’s look at some of the answers.

Meg’s answer was Science. Not due to any creativity, but just because she doesn’t like science. A fair point, but she was a little too broad. Science? That’s like saying I don’t like music. What? Who doesn’t like music? Maybe you don’t like Country, or Rap, but all of music? So, Meg loses for generality.

Tony said “How to predict the stock market”. Actually, that’s a good class to take a crash course in, it would get you prepared for the current economy.

DJ said a crash course in crash courses. We bet he thought he was pretty clever saying that. But, we wonder if he knew that the reason he thought he was clever was because he stole our idea. Yes, that’s right, DJ. Check out this post’s title. Did you think you would get away with it? Well, you didn’t, you copy cat. Copy cat! Copy cat! You lose. Did you think we would be flattered? That copying us would make us feel honored, so we let you win? Imitation is the highest form of flattery, after all. That’s right. And we think we give the best answers, so that means your answer was the best. So, you win! Congratulations, DJ! Onto this week’s game.

For those of you who don’t know, President Obama and his family recently got a dog for the White House. A Portuguese water dog, to be exact. They named him Bo in honor of Mrs. Obama’s father, whose nickname was Diddley. Get it? Bo Diddley? Right, as in Bo Diddley. Well, we thought this was a good opportunity to play another round of the PSB Original game, Bests and Worsts.

Best name for the president’s dog.

You can interpret this question in many ways. What is the best name for Barack Obama’s dog? What is the best name for any president’s dog? OK, so I guess you can interpret it in two ways. Unless you think of a third way, then by all means interpret away. Anyway, our answer for best dog name: Chester A. Arfer. Put your White House Hound names in the comments.