Last week we debuted the PSB original game, Say What?, where you get to put a caption on a picture. If you don’t remember, the picture was Mike in a sombrero looking happy, and Johnny without a sombrero looking surly. Let’s take a look at some of the comments.

A couple of people took the opportunity to criticize us. One mocked Mike’s Political Cartoons, while another implied Johnny did not like Mike’s Fancy Feast joke, which we will interpret as the author not liking the joke either. What have we ever done to you, other than share our toil and treasure with you? We give you games every week, and this is how you thank us? With mockery? No, friends, we shall not endure such treachery. Eh, on second thought, we don’t really care that much. But, to send a message, we won’t give Pep or Meg a shout-out for their answers. Hear that? Pep! Meg! No shout-out for you!

Speaking of shout-outs, Sami gets one for his caption, “I could be a chick magnet too if I had a sombrero.” It’s not that funny, but he called Mike a chick magnet, so he gets credit for that.

Lorenzo gave a bilingual response, of which we will only repeat the English portion: “I can’t believe he got the shirt and hat for only 5 pesos.” Ah, Johnny does get jealous when Mike finds good deals. But, Lorenzo does not win.

But the winner this week is Nick! His caption was “So YOU’RE the one who gave me swine flu.” Classic. He gets bonus points for using current events. But, I guess since he is the winner, Nick doesn’t need bonus points. Bonus points rescinded. Good job, Nick!

This week, we feel like playing the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. So we shall. We talked about April showers recently, but in our part of the world it is still raining, even though it is May. I think Mother Nature didn’t get the memo. Anyway, here is this week’s game:

Worst time to get caught in the rain.

Our answer is on your date with the Wicked Witch of the West. It’s hard explaining that to the parentals. Your turn now. Post your answer in the comments.

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.

Howdy, folks! Today is Good Friday, and what could be better than a Game Time game?

Before we move on to this week’s game, we would like to recap our previous game for you. We played the PSB Original game, Headliners, and asked you to come up with a clever headline to an article about the canceling of Guiding Light. Here are some of the best (or worst) answers, along with the winner.

First, Tony gave the headline “$25,000 Pyramid Returns!” which we thought was pretty funny, seeing as that was clearly not the point of the article. However, his subheadline was less funny, although needed to provide context, so we omitted it.

Sid gave us an enjoyable headline: “Guiding Light Extinguished. Housewives now in the dark.” Good, but sexist. What, like househusbands can’t watch a soap opera?

We also want to give a shout-out to Jen, for visiting our site and giving us her headline. “Perhaps if they had gotten a good writer in place instead constantly hiring writers with no talent and boring story lines they would have survived. They did this to themselves, my three year old daughter could have come up with a better story.” A bit diatribe-like, but we are always glad when people play our games, even if they don’t exactly understand them. Thanks, Jen! Come back soon!

Choosing a winner was hard this week. We really liked Nick’s headline of “Lights Out!” It was concise and clever, and it probably should win. But it won’t. Instead, we decided to give the W to Tony for his post “Guiding Light canceled. To return in six months with amnesia.” What ended up being the decided factor? Well, Tony posted more than once, as evidenced above, which means he must have come to our site more than once. And we like to reward our fans. In other words, if you wanna win, come back and play again. A lot of times.

Earlier this week, Mike talked about the origin of the phrase “crash course,” and we thought it would be a good time to play the PSB original game, Bests and Worsts. Here’s the category:

Worst topic in which to take a “crash course.”

Going along Mike’s reasoning, we will say, Aviation. Think you have a better one, or rather, a worse one? Comment it. Grac.

Friday = Game Time. Today = Friday. Game Time = Today. Today = Game Time.

(How do did you like our uses of the transitive and commutative properties?)

Let’s start up with going over the answers from last week and naming a winner. Last Friday ( = Last Game Time), we played a round of the PSB Original Game Bests and Worsts where we asked for the worst nickname for an airplane pilot. Here’s how it went down (the answers, not the plane):

Meg said Vertigo, which was a cool nickname, and definitely a bad nickname for a pilot. You don’t want your fearless leader to feel like he’s spinning out of control before he starts spinning out of control.

Max said Snakes, which was also a cool nickname, and of course, nobody likes Snakes on a Plane, especially not this guy.

Meg L. said Cotton Eye Joe, which was a pretty good one. I wouldn’t want Cotton Eye Joe flying my plane.

Where did he come from? Where did he go? I forgot to check the flight schedule!!

Anyway, Meg loses for two reasons. One, she’s the second Meg and you all know the saying, two Megs are better than one. No, that’s not it. No Megs is good Megs. Nope. Okay, so maybe there’s no good saying about Megs, but she also loses because her nickname was more than one word, and that broke the trend. And you all know that saying: Break the trend, lose the game.

We’re getting tired of going over losing answers, so we’re jumping straight to the winner. david [sic] wins for his answer “how about joe ‘the plumber’ because plumbers dont fly planes… usually… or better yet, joe ‘the plummeter’” [sicker]

That answer wins because it sounds like something we’d say. But, that doesn’t give you all free reign to sound like us. That reign will cost you.

And now on to this week’s game!

This week, we both talked about what not to say during a job interview. That gave us a brilliant idea for a new game. And yes, it will be another round of the PSB Original Game Bests and Worsts. (You may be wondering why we always call it the PSB Original Game. Stop wondering. Start awe-ing.)

Worst question to ask your potential employer during a job interview.

Ooh that’s a good one. We’re in awe of whoever came up with that question. Here’s our answer, which really is a question, much like Jeopardy, except minus pompous Canadian.

“Do you guys have Naked Fridays?”

Now it’s your turn. Play.

It’s time once again for Pigs in Spaaaace!! No, no, no. Time for Game Time! Let’s talk about last week’s game and pick out a winner.

So last week we played Headliners and everybody had to come up with a good headline about the Academy Awards.

First, we want to give a shout out to Luca for his answer, “‘Millionaire,’ ‘Milk’ Make Movie Magic.” You see, we at the Pake Shlake Band haven’t exactly figured out the best way to play this game. Sometimes we think the headlines should be funny, sometimes they should be potential real headlines. And, while Luca’s answer doesn’t exactly fit either, we thought it brought up a good point to think about, so we mentioned it. Gracias. But it still loses.

We tried to figure out what Elizabeth’s headline was supposed to mean. After about two minutes, we gave up and decided it shouldn’t win. Maybe it was clever, but if it takes two minutes to figure out if it’s clever, then it’s not that clever.

Max’s headline was enjoyable: “Slumdog Wins 8 Awards, What Is This Bollywood?” but we thought it should have read: “Slumdog Wins 8 Awards, What Is This? Bollywood?” and then that might have won. Or maybe “Slumdog Wins 8 Awards, What Is This? Bollywood!” But probably not.

Jess was on the right track with her play on words, “Kate WONSlet?,” but we thought 1. Caps Lock was overkill. 2. It should be spelled WONslet not WONSlet. 3. We only have two reasons.

So, after much analysis, the winner is Tony! His headline was “Joker Gets Last Laugh”. He had a subheadline, but it wasn’t too funny, so we are going to pretend he didn’t write it. This wins for the reason we mentioned earlier. It’s not laugh out loud funny, but it is a clever title that you could imagine being in a newspaper of good repute, like the New York Post. (We said good repute.) Sorry, we meant a newspaper of repute. Anyway, congratulations, Tony! (What’s with the NY Post bashing?) Sorry, we meant a newspaper that might be good, but nobody reads it. (Hmm)

Now, onto this week! We wanted to bring back another PSB Original Game – this time Bests and Worsts. You know how to play; just come up with the best or worst whatever as described in the bolded section below. Here it is:

Worst nickname for an airplane pilot.

Hmm, worst nickname for an airplane pilot, huh? That’s a tough one. Hmm… Oooh. The PSB is going to go with “Parachute Pat.” We wouldn’t want our pilot jumping ship on us.

Whatchoo got? Commenticate.

Hey everybody, it’s Friday, and you know what that means! Full House followed be Urkel? No, another round of Game Time! But before we go to the next game, let’s recap last week’s and declare a winner.

So last Friday, we asked everyone to come up with a make-believe fact that linked Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. And by make-believe fact, we mean, in fact, not a fact.

The first shout out goes to Tony, just because he spoke Shlakese. You’d think you all would have learned at least a little bit by now. I mean, it’s easier than Latin, what more do you want?!

Now we have a bit of bad news. Sonny’s answer was a little too close to true to be worthy of the win. Abraham Lincoln does in fact hold patent # 6469, and since it is designed for a boat, and we have no evidence that Charles Darwin did not, in fact, use it. Therefore, we regret to inform Sonny that his entry was invalid. Apologies to our former champ.

Sid’s answer involving evolutionary advantages and top hats is especially funny since Darwin in fact did postulate that top hats were not a functional advantage in baboons. Unfortunately, Sid’s answer is also disqualified, since it contains no link between Darwin and Lincoln. Honest Abe wore a stove pipe hat, not a top hat. One might argue that all hats go on atop one’s head, so all hats are top hats. We would consider the argument, if presented, which it was not.

Speaking of stove pipe hats, we give props to Sami. In general, references to blinged out things that are not and in all likelihood will never be blinged out, i.e. a blinged out stove pipe hats, are worthy of props. Hence, props to Sami.

Now, it’s time to reveal the winner. Who is the winner? Well, the winner is Elizabeth! She used classic trivia about Darwin, i.e. that his ship was named the HMS Beagle, and put it to good use. In fact, this might be the only time in history when knowing the name of Darwin’s ship has ever been worth anything. So, congratulations Elizabeth, you are this week’s champ!

Now on to this week’s game. On Tuesday, Mike talked about a list created by C-SPAN that ranked the presidents from best to worst. Best to worst? Presidents? Sounds like something we at the Pake Shlake Band would do.

So we’ve decided to bring back the PSB original game Bests and Worsts with a Presidential theme. Unlike last time when we asked for a Worst, this time we want you to give us a Best.

Best Song to Replace “Hail to the Chief”

You know “Hail to the Chief,” right? It’s the one that goes “bum ba da bum, bum ba doo bee da bee doo ba, dee dittley wow, bam be doobley doobley wonk wonk wonk wonk.” Anyway, that song is what they play whenever the President comes into the room, and if you ask us, it’s getting old and needs some updating.

Here’s our answer for the Best song to replace it: The Imperial March from Star Wars. That way whenever the President walks in to the room, you won’t know if it’s Barack Obama or Darth Vader.

What do you think? Comments.

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.)