It’s the end of Halloweek. That can only mean one thing: Game Time!

Last Week’s Winner

Last week, Johnny made a “sentence” using each letter of the alphabet exactly once. But since his “sentence” was really just a random assortment of words, he gave a picture to try to explain it. And, we asked you to create a funny caption for the picture in the PSB Original Game, Say What?. Let’s look at the responses.

First off, Elizabeth and Tony, whose captions were “Eat More Chicken” and “I should probably mooooove” both lose. We said no cow jokes!

Next, Lorenzo and Luca both had play on words, one about Colonel Sanders and the other about X’s, O’s and oxen. They were clever, but they don’t win.

We narrowed it down to two: Russ’ caption, “…and the ox goes for the hail-gravy pass…!!” and Tony’s second response, “After this play Dan Snyder has banned all condiments from Fed Ox Field.” In general, we approve of all jokes insulting Dan Synder. However, we are still a little mad at Tony for his cow joke, so Russ gets the “W”! Good job, Rwuss!

This Week’s Game

For those of you who don’t know, tomorrow is Halloween, and we at the Pake Shlake Band have been honoring that fact with Halloweek, a week full of posts. And it wouldn’t be Halloweek if we didn’t play a spooky Game Time!

As has been our tradition on Halloween, we give you the start of a scary short story, and you write it. The catch? It has to be a really short story. Here’s your intro:

Write a Halloween story (50 words or less) that begins with “I was in the graveyard when…”

Here is our story:

I was in the graveyard when the church clock struck 12. I looked around. “Oh, no!” I screamed. I started running. I ran as fast as I could, looking wildly around in every direction. But, to no avail. I could not find my lunch.

And I was getting hungry too.

Ooh! He was in the graveyard at noon and couldn’t find his lunch! Oooh! Scaaaary!

Now, it’s your turn.

Unlike Johnny, I still haven’t decided what to go as for Halloween. I have a rule that it has to be scary. For example, last year I went as a recycling bin.

Now, maybe you’re thinking, that’s not scary. Ahh, but I went as an empty recycling bin. Oooh! No one’s recycling! Global warming!! Oooh! Scaaary!!!

I think I’m gonna go as Miley Cyrus for Halloween. I’ll just wear a cardigan and some sneakers and move my hips like “Yeah!”

Gate Mime? Magi Meet? Game Time!

Last Week’s Winner

We played the PSB Original Game Bests And Worsts last week, asking you to come up with the worst name for a band. Let’s look at the best, or should we say worst, responses.

Big A thought “the Cacaphonies” would be an awful name, and we concur. But, his tagline overdid it. Bands don’t really have taglines. So that answer doesn’t win.

Sam posted two answers, “The Off-Keys” and “The Flat Heads”. Eh.

Luca came close with his response of “The Beach Boys.” That’s a pretty dumb name for a band, but since the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn’t agree, that answer doesn’t win, either.

Which means that Elizabeth wins with her group, “The Deaftones.” Get it? Like the Deftones, but deaf. Well done, Elizabeth!

This Week’s Game

Yesterday, Johnny decided to use all the letters in the alphabet exactly once to make a sentence about gravy and ox and blitz-jump. And since he had a drawing to go along with it, we thought we would play the PSB Original Game, Say What?, where your job is to come up with a funny caption to a picture.

Here’s the picture:

Now, come up with a funny caption. Here’s ours:

All this gravy and me with no mashed potatoes!

See? Easy. And we’re sure your responses will be funnier than that one.

So, please put your captions in the comments. And please, no jokes about how the ox really looks like a cow. Johnny has always been very sensitive about his ox representations, and we don’t want to fracture his ego further.

You know the sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”? It uses every letter in the alphabet, and so it’s sometimes used to test fonts.

The thing is it uses like 30-something letters (I’m too lazy to count) and it uses the letter ‘O’ something like five times (too lazy, again).

If you’re gonna make a sentence that uses every letter in the alphabet, then that sentence had better be 26 letters. Like this:

Q: When’d KFC’s gravy blitz-jump ox?

Now, that’s what I call efficient.

(PS: How can I be too lazy to count the letters in a sentence, but I can come up with a sentence using the entire alphabet?)

I am the crown prince of wishful thinking.

Anybody remember the mneumonic device – yes, I threw out mneumonic – to remember the planets? I keep saying,

My Very Own Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.

True, Pluto’s not a planet anymore, so we need to update that. But the bigger issue is that Earth does not start with the letter O. So I must be remembering it wrong.

I couldn’t find anything definitive using Google – some said Earnest, some said Energetic, some said Educated, some said Eager, some said Excellent.

One even said she served us Pickles instead of Pizza. That one should be “My Very Evil Mother.”

Anyway, so since Google let me down, I turned to my source-of-all-knowledge, and it did not disappoint. Check this oooouuuuut: Planetary mnemonic.

First thing you should notice is that I spelled mnemonic wrong. I guess I got it confused with mneumonia.

Anyway, the Wikigods say that it was Earnest until some losers changed it to Educated and took away the Pizza. I guess only us uneducated folks like to enjoy tasty cheesy goodness.

But now that there’s no Pluto, it’s all about Nachos:

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos.

Hmm, education + cheesy food = not bad.