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Last Week’s Winner

Last week, we played a new game, an as-yet-unnamed game, about coming up with a slogan for the fictitious product, “Ironic Twist”. We had a bunch of answers, and now it’s time for us to pick them apart.

Sam for the third straight week gave us lots of answers close to the deadline, and for the third straight week, we at the Pake Shlake Band cannot reward such procrastination. Well for the second straight week at least. Looks like we did let him win for his Lowell inspired headline. But there was no Lowell to save him today – he loses!

Tony, Nick and Joey had some good answers, but instead of giving us the ad slogan, they gave us more of a commercial sometimes with narrator included. So we don’t think they should win. But maybe that could be another game. Come up with the best narrator to read the commercial of a fictitious product that you come up with. Kinda long name for a game.

Anyway, that leaves Lorenzo. Lorenzo should be thankful for the Process of Elimination. It made him our winner! (But his answer was good too.) Lorenzo said Ironic Twist is just plain tonic water, and the slogan is “Expecting something else? Why do you think we call it Ironic Twist?” Nice slogan, nice winner, nice process of elimination. Nice dog.

This Week’s Game

And now we’re going to keep the fun right where it belongs – in the advertising agency. The yet-to-be-named game has now taken upon a name of its own: Ad Geniuses. Or should we say the PSB Original Game Ad Geniuses? It’s not a PSB Original until we say PSB Original before it.

We’re gonna make it a little easier for you though. This time – and maybe from now on – we’ll give you the name of the fictitious product, and we’ll also explain what it is. All you have to do is come up with the slogan.

Here’s this week’s fictitious product:
A Wink and a Nod – a board game targeted at horse lovers

Ooh! Sounds like a fun game. Here’s our answer:

A Wink and a Nod: Blind Horse Not Included

Toccate.

Do you know the expression, “A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse?” I don’t get this expression at all.

1. Why are you winking or nodding at a horse? Is the horse an undercover spy that you are trying to communicate with?

2. If you are riding the horse, why don’t you just say “Whoa!”?

3. Why are you riding a blind horse? Even if winking or nodding did anything, he’s blind!

Oh, and 4. Don’t we shoot horses when they go blind?

“I’ll talk to you later.”

Why do people say that? I mean, sure it’s true and all, and it seems like a nice way to end a conversation on a positive note, but think about it. What’s the alternative?

“I will never speak to you again.”

Actually, I kinda like that. From now on, I will assume that I will talk to you later. If we will never speak again, let me know so I can end the conversation accordingly.

You know how email accounts make you log in with your address and your password? Why should they need both? Can’t they do it with just your password?

Well, I guess the problem with that would be that then everyone would have to have different passwords, and what if someone else also wanted “fuzziekittiekats” to be their password? You’d accidentally log in to their email, and they might log in to yours and then you would get confused, and they would get confused, and all hell would break loose.

So, the moral of the story is “fuzziekittiekats” is not a secure password.

I got a great idea. I’m gonna change all references from the National Football League to the Nerf Football League. It’ll still be the NFL so most people won’t notice it for a while.

Then once people do notice the change, they’ll be all freaked out like, “Oh my gosh, did you know the N stood for Nerf? We’ve got to do something about this!”

And then they’d start playing with neon colored plushy balls and it would be awesome.

Many a tear have to fall (do-do-do-do) but it’s all (do-do-do-do) in the Game Time.

Last Week’s Winner

We had a double dose of Headliners last week, where you the choice of two articles to create a headline for. One was about the passing of Les Paul, the other was about the passing of third-string quarterback Colt Brennan. Let’s review the responses.

Sam was again the midnight responder, submitting two answers. With respect to the Redskins article, he gave the headline: “Ravens to Redskins: Nevermore.” It was okay, but we thought it would have been more clever if it has said “Never score,” because that rhymes and the Redskins were in fact shut out. His “Les Paul: Guitar Hero” answer was very clever, and probably would have won, except we chastised him last week for his late responses, and we felt we couldn’t continue to reward his procrastination. At least not two weeks in a row. So, Sam loses on both counts.

Next, Tony gave the double answer, “Les Paul is dead, so are Redskins playoff hopes.” This was good, but we thought it couldn’t win, because what newspaper would put those two topics in the same article? the Washington Post hasn’t condensed that much. So, Tony loses.

Then who wins? Well, it’s Luca, for his response, “Les is No More.” Short and sweet. Except, not that sweet since it’s making light of someone’s death. But, that’s fine with us. Good work, Luca!

This Week’s Game

For this week’s game, we are going to change it up a bit. Earlier in the week, Mike pulled the ol’ ironic twist on us, and then mentioned that Ironic Twist is a good product name. So, here is this week’s game:

Come up with an advertising slogan for “Ironic Twist.”

Now, here is our ironic twist, the product “Ironic Twist” can be anything. That’s right, you get to decide what the product is and how to market it. How fun! Here’s our answer:

Ironic Twist: Scoop It, Twist It, Trash It. Who’s the Master? Ironic.

See? In this case, Ironic Twist was a pooper scooper. Your turn.

So I was at Target the other day, and I spent most of my time walking back and forth between the Small Electric Appliances section and the Health and Beauty section (basically the bathroom stuff). You see, I was looking for an electric toothbrush, and it wasn’t with the toothbrushes and it wasn’t with the small electric stuff, but that didn’t stop me from walking back and forth between the two sections again and again, hoping.

Well between those two sections, in this particular Target, there was the Pet Supplies section. And one of the many times I walked past it, I overheard this conversation:

Boy: Wow look at this pooper scooper! It’s called “The POOper Scooper”.
Girl: That’s so cool.

You know what I think criminals should try more when they are trying to escape from police? They should dress up like women and flirt with the police officers and trick them into going the wrong direction. I don’t know why you don’t hear of more criminals escaping that way. It’s like these convicts have never watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

I’m trying to write a story but I’ve hit a dead end. If any of you could help me that would be great. Here’s what I have so far:

Once upon a time…

And that’s all I’ve got.