If it’s Friday, it’s Game Time! Except when it’s Saturday.

Last Week’s Winner

Hello, and welcome to a rare Saturday edition of Game Time! It’s been a busy holiday season, and we at the Pake Shlake Band have been a little negligent in our duties. But, don’t worry, our New Year’s Resolution was to make sure we do things on time. So, we are kicking the new year by playing Game Time one day late.

It was still Christmastime when we last played Game Time, and we wanted to know if you had heard any weird lyrics to Christmas songs. Let’s take a look at what you said.

Lorenzo used the classic line, “Don we now our gay apparel.” I wonder what Queer Eye For the Straight Guy thinks of this.

DBeck came close to getting back-to-back wins, as he criticized the Beach Boys for wishing Santa Claus a Merry Christmas and then telling us that Christmas comes at same time every year. In fact, we are a little surprised ourselves that DBeck didn’t win, since usually insulting the Beach Boys is all it takes.

But, as it turns out, Lorenzo submitted a second answer that steals the win. In “Here Comes Santa Claus,” also known as “Here Comes Santy Claus,” Gene Autry says “Let’s give thanks to the Lord above ’cause Santa Claus comes tonight.” To quote Lorenzo, “That is an unusual mix of religious and secular.” We couldn’t say it better ourselves. We probably could have said it equally well, though. Anyway, Lorenzo wins.

This Week’s Game

It’s the new year, and what better way to kick of the new year, than with New Year’s resolutions! Sounds like a good time for a round of the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. Here’s the topic:

Worst New Year’s resolution

And here’s our answer: “In 2010, I resolve to eat less…poison.”

What do you think? Post it up.

It’s the week before Thanksgiving. You know what that means?

Game Time!

Last Week’s Winner

Last week, after Johnny talked about cereal icons, we decided to have a PSB Original Game Mashup: Bests and Worsts meets Ad Geniuses.

Here were Some of the Answers for the Worst Cereal and Ad Campaign. If you noticed, we just capitalize Random words Around Here.

Tony and Luca started us off with some ‘our cereal is too sweet and unhealthy’ ads. Tony went with “Sweet Fleet” a cereal marketed by Captain Cavity, while Luca came up with “Better Letters” whose spokesmen were the letters O, B, C, and D. Get it? OBCD, obesity, ABCD, alphabet?

Anyway, while both good answers, they have to lose because Captain Cavity would get in a fight with Cap’n Crunch, and the obese letters would not get along with the Alpha-bits, and basically all hell would break loose. And broken-loose hell is not a part of your complete balanced breakfast.

DJ and Joey Bag of Donuts came up with some cereal ideas for a more mature crowd with “Chocoholic” and “Jumpin Jesus Flakes“. With taglines like “Chocolate is my favorite addiction!” and “when the son of God eats his cereal, he changes the milk into wine!”, how can your cereal not be a hit? If not a hit, at least a slap. In the face of Christians and alcoholics everywhere.

And that leaves Sam as the winner this week with his cereal “Crunchy Critters” Nothing sells cereal like a constantly foiled cartoon character with a cute catchphrase.

“Everything is better when it crunches!”

This Week’s Game

The other day…let’s see…why it was Wednesday…Mike mentioned going to a gym owned by a couple guys named Jim, aka the Jims’ Gym. That gave us an idea.

It’s time for another round of the PSB Original Game Bests and Worsts. All you got to do is come up with an answer for this:

Best name that matches your occupation.

Here’s our answer: Dan Sinmasheen. He’s a professional dancer.

Whatchoo got?

It’s Grrrrrrrame Time!
Shlakes are for kids?
Cooookie Crisp?

Last Week’s Winner

Last Wednesday, the Yankees won the World Series, so last Friday we played the PSB Original Game, Headliners, where you had to think of a clever headline chronicling the World Series victory.

Sam gave us a lot of responses. We particularly liked “Godzilla Defeats Mothra!” But, since Chump Utley’s nickname is not, in fact, Mothra, Sam doesn’t win.

Joey Bag of Donuts gave a shout out to the Hairston family, but since Jerry Hairston Jr. isn’t really that good, and we have no evidence that Jerry Hairston III even exists, Joey can’t win. Sorry!

But this week’s winner is Mama Meg, as her headline accurately summarized the sentiment of many people around the country, especially most Nats fans: “Baseball Season Finally Over!” Well done, Meg! You should work for a newspaper. A cynical newspaper.

This Week’s Game

This week, Johnny poked fun at cereals aimed at adults, saying all cereals should have a cute cartoon character hawking their product. But, as Johnny mentioned, the mascot is not always a character in upstanding character. So, we thought we would change this up and combine two of our games into one. We mashed up the PSB Original Games Bests and Worsts and Ad Geniuses to get this game:

Come up with an ad campaign that features the worst cartoon character for a cereal.

Ours is this: A cereal called Sugary Spartans has a Greek man named Diabetes selling the product.

You?

It is time for games. It is time for game. Singular. Game Time.

Last Week’s Winner

This past Monday was Columbus Day (to honor Columbus, we didn’t post), and last week’s Game Time was centered around his infamous voyage in 1492. We played the PSB Original Game Headliners, asking you to give us a clever headline. Let’s take a look at the newspaper-worthy submissions.

Sam seems to have restarted his trend of posting right under the deadline, but since this is a game about newspaper headlines, we think that’s appropriate. His “Santa Maria!” headline was funny but not particularly descriptive. He probably would have needed a sub-headline to win with it. And since he didn’t have one, he doesn’t. Win, that is.

Lorenzo and Joey had a nice back and forth about cities named after Columbus, but we felt that was a little too modern. We were looking for headlines from the 15th century, not the 19th century.

Tony’s headline was perhaps a foreshadowing of future events, “Columbus Reaches New World, Natives Restless.” This was funny, but it doesn’t win. So who does?

Why, Nick, of course! We thought his headline, “Suicidal Columbus Will Fall Off Earth’s Edge!” accurately summed up the sentiment in Europe at the time. Nice job, Nick!

This Week’s Game

Earlier this week, Mike talked about the murderous video and the Buggles who paid tribute to said video.

Well, that got us thinking. Buggles is a pretty silly name for a band. So, we thought we should play the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. Here’s your game:

Worst name for a band.

We think the worst name would be the Off-keys.

What do you think? Post, my friends, post!

The Time for the Game is now.

Last Week’s Winner

Last week, we played another round of the PSB Original Game, Little Known Facts. This time it was all about the United Nations, as we asked everybody to tell us a little known “fact” about the ol’ U.N. An example would be, “No one has ever referred to the United Nations as ‘the ol’ U.N.’”

But that’s just an example. Here were your answers.

Lorenzo and Luca talked too much about Tommy Lasorda. They lose.

Pep made a joke about D.C. United’s press releases. That’s funny. If you read D.C. United press releases. He loses.

Max said the ol’ U.N. would have given in to Dr. Evil’s terrorist demands. That little known fact is almost too-facty. At least, we believe they woulda done it. So he loses.

Joey Bag of Donuts might have won if he hadn’t first insulted Boutros Boutros, or as he as affectionately known, the ol B.B. But he did insult him, so Joey cannot win.
(It’s in the Little Known Facts official rulebook, right after you can’t mention Tommy Lasorda)

So who’s the winner? Is it Elizabeth or is it Tony?

It’s Tony with his Little Known Fact, “There are only 2 places in the United States of America where another flag can be flown above the U.S. Flag. One is U.N. Headquarters, the other is McDonald’s.”

So good for him. And good for Grimace.

This Week’s Game

So yesterday, Mike intentionally unintentionally offended West Virginia and Alabama by unintentionally intentionally praising the famous songs about them. He said something about the best songs and the worst states, and that naturally brought to mind the PSB Original Game Bests and Worsts.

So let’s play it. Play what? Bests and Worsts, of course. With this topic:

Worst song about a state.

Hmm… worst song about a state, eh? Lemme think here….Oooh

We Built Minnesota on Rock and Roll

See? The song does not have to be a REAL song, but it has to be like, KINDOFASONG. Anyway, it’s your turn to play. Come up with something song-related, state-related, or both, and post it in the comments.

G to the Ame, T to the Ime. Or mathematically speaking, G^ame T^ime.

Come on man, superscript it up.

G^ame T^ime

Now we’re talking.

Last Week’s Winner

Last week, we played another round of the PSB Original Game, Ad Geniuses, where we asked you to slogan up “A Wink and a Nod” a fictitious equine-themed board game. Let’s see how you did.

Loyal reader Sam had been posting a bunch of answers to our Game Time games on Thursday nights, sneaking in his answers right before the deadline, for several weeks in a row. After chastising him and denying him the victory, he didn’t play this week. And that’s what we at the Pake Shlake Band are all about – criticizing our readers so much, they never want to come back. You hear that you? You stink!

Instead of Sam, Tony and Luca were the loyal reader who decided to give us a whole bunch of answers – two a piece. But the best out of those four was Tony’s slogan, “The ‘Neighs’ Have It!” Not too shabby. But for all four of Tony and Luca’s answers, we have to say…nay.

Mama Meg had a good idea with her tagline, “Make Dollars out of Horse Sense,” but that seems too much like exploiting the beautiful creatures. And if there’s anything we don’t do to horses, it’s exploit them. Maybe if she had said, “Make Dollars out of Horse Cents,” that would have worked, but we’ve all seen that game already. It’s called Horsopoly. And it stinks.

Emily had quite possibly the best answer yet with “The Game for the Horse-Lover in All of Us – Or Some of You Weirdos at Least…Who Loves Horses Anyway? Third Grade Girls?” But that might be a little too hostile for any marketing, especially marketing to the third grade girls.

So it looks like Lorenzo comes in first again, earning himself back to back wins with his slogan, “Are you able in the stable?” That means Lorenzo is 2-2 in Ad Geniuses, which should probably earn him the title of Ad Genius. But it won’t.

This Week’s Game

So it looks like it’s school time again. Yep, it’s that time of year again, when schools open up their doors again and kids find themselves back on the yellow buses.

Now we know what you’re thinking: “BOOOOOO school!” or “YAAAAY school!” or “I’m kinda indifferent to the subject, but you were eerily correct in saying you know what I was thinking.”

So with back-to-school on our minds, we’re going to play a round of the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. You know how to play right? It’s pretty easy. Here’s the topic:

Worst excuse for not turning in your homework.

And here’s our answer:

That episode of Top Cat where Al the Actor pretends to be Officer Dibble and steals all the paintings was on and you couldn’t resist watching it.

Whatchoo got?

Did we forget to post a Game Time on Friday? Nope!

Hello again, and welcome to another Friday edition of Game Time. In our last edition, we played the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts, and we asked for the worst first dance for a newly married couple. Let’s look over the answers.

DJ gave two answers, “If You Wanna Be Happy,” the song that advises you to marry an ugly woman, and “Evil Woman” which is self-explanatory. Both good answers, but unfortunately he is disqualified for posting two answers in the same comment. Sorry, DJ, if you wanna play more than once do it the old-fashioned way, make up fake names. For example, if you had posted as Jimmy Soul, you might have had a better chance of winning. Or rather, Jimmy Soul would have had a better chance of winning. Next!

Max suggested “Gold Digger” by Kanye West. He is also disqualified, since he didn’t actually give the title of the song he just implied it. Yer out!

Tony submitted “Sugar Shack”, using the following argument. We are looking for the worst song for a specific occasion. “Sugar Shack” is the worst song ever. Therefore, it must be the worst song to play at a wedding. Interesting syllogism, but Tony does not win. So who does?

Luca! His answer was “Lola” by the Kinks, and since Luca and Lola have the same number of letters, we thought it was destiny. Well done!

Now, what should we play this week? Ooh, how about another round of Bests and Worsts? Great! Earlier in the week, Mike talked about his new Animal Planet show, “Focus on the Locusts” about cicadas. That spurred us to this game:

Best new show for Animal Planet.

After some thought, we decided we would have a show called “King of the Forest.” We don’t know what it would be about really, since lions – while called kings of the forest – actually live on the African savanna and not in the forest. Maybe the show would be about deer.

Anyway, your turn. Try to come up with a better show. This time it shouldn’t be too hard. And don’t forget to post it in the comments, unless you are afraid of Animal Planet ripping you off and not giving you any of the proceeds.

Did we forget to post a Game Time on Friday? Oops!

Allow us to explain. For those of you who don’t know, we at the Pake Shlake Band enjoy holidays, and we certainly enjoy not working on holidays. And 10 days ago there was a holiday, and we accidentally posted on it. Can you believe it? The Pake Shlake Band working when they don’t have to? Outrageous, we know. So, to avenge the mistake, we decided to take the following Friday off instead, which was this past Friday. Vengeance! And so, we are posting our Game Time today. Don’t like it? Tough luck!

Last Friday (or technically, two Fridays ago), we asked you to make up a little-known fact about the American Revolution. Booya made an allusion to the Boston Tea Party, Luca to Twinkies, and Tony to The Swamp Fox. But, the winner is Lorenzo, for calling the Revolutionary War by its original name, “The war when we hid in the forest and shot at them when they weren’t expecting it.” Well done, Lorenzo.

Now, for this week’s game. We have chosen to play the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. Why? Well, here’s why: The Pake Shlake Band was recently invited to perform at a wedding. (No, you weren’t.) No, we weren’t. But we could have been. And if we had been asked to perform, we probably would have had to play the first dance for the bride and groom. And that made us think of this question.

Worst first dance at a wedding.

We gave it a lot of thought, well, a little bit of thought, and came up with Sir Mixalot’s Baby Got Back. Think you know of a worse song? Post it in the comments.

What day is it? Game Time!

(That doesn’t even make sense.)

So last week, we played another round of the PSB Original Game, Say What?, and you had to give a caption for the picture of Johnny in his flame-thrower hat. The answers came in, but there can be only one winner. Let’s see who it was.

Mama Meg suggested, “Someone left the Shlake out in the rain” which is applaudable, but not winnable.

Tony suggested, “In the olden days, before Thomas Edison, this is what ideas looked like” which is winnable but not applaudable.

Today, it looks like we’re looking for both winnable and applaudable, so the winning caption goes to…

…DJ and his “Johnny! You burned my sombrero!!” for referencing back to the inaugurual Say What? game on Cinco de Mayo.

Congratulations to DJ, and anti-congratulations to everyone else. Look! What’s that over in the next paragraph?

Oh it’s this week’s game. We’re gonna swing it back and play a round of the PSB Original Game Bests and Worsts.

The other day, Mike talked about the wonderfulness that is the gumball machine. Here’s today’s question:

Best new feature someone could add to gumball machines.

Here’s our answer: Some sort of bio-identity scanner that would give us FREE gumballs instead of having to add nickels or quarters or Pocahontas dollars.

What do you think? Commentify.

We promised you three games, we gave you one, and here is number two. And yes, we are sticking with a Spelling Bee theme. Why not? This time, we’re gonna play the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. So here’s the question:

Worst word to lose on in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

We’re gonna have to go and say “a”. Imagine getting a one letter word and messing that up. And not only that, it’s an easy one.

What’s your answer?