It’s Friday in Shlakeland, and that can only mean one thing: Game Time!

Last week, we played the PSB Original Game Little-Known Facts, where you the reader get to make up things as pass it off as truth - just like Wikipedia! The topic of choice was Michael Jackson. Hey, did you know Michael Jackson didn’t get the nickname “The King of Pop” until after he started doing Pepsi commercials? Yeah, neither did we. Anyway, here were some of the good answers we got.

Joey Bag of Donuts gave us this fact: “The Jackson Five are offering a 20 percent discount on their reunion!” Too soon? Probably.

Then, Tony and Lorenzo seemed to have an in tandem response, where they claimed that two MJ hits, “Ben” and “Rock With You” were both inspired by the singer’s sister Janet’s pet rock, which coincidentally was named Ben.

But the winner this week is DJ for his answer, “Michael Jackson’s hit song ‘Bad’ was originally titled ‘Good.’” We didn’t know that! I guess that’s why they call the game Little-Known Facts. Onward to this week’s game!

For those of you who don’t know, this weekend Americans celebrate our Independence Day, honoring the day when we declared our unalienable rights of life, liberty, and grilled hot dogs. To celebrate, we are playing another round of the PSB Original Game, Little-Known Facts, where you the reader get to make up things as pass it off as truth - just like Wikipedia! Ever heard of it? See what you can come up with for this topic.

Come up with a little-known fact about the American Revolution.

It’s like history class, but you get to make it up! Here is our fact:

Benedict Arnold’s birth name was Arnold Benedict, but halfway through elementary school he changed it.

See? It’s easy as pie. Apple pie. American as apple pie. So, play! It’s your patriotic duty! And who knows, maybe in 100 years children in school will be learning the “facts” that you make up today.

Hello again. And welcome to another edition of Game Time, everyone’s favorite Friday distraction. Last week was the PSB Original Game, Headliners, where you had to come up with a clever headline to an article about the Nationals beating the Yankees. How about a quick recap?

Tony’s response was perhaps the most concise and accurate: “Nats Beat Yanks, Still stink!” Very true, but perhaps a little too harsh. The Washington Post would never be so negative about a local team, the writers are too delusional.

Next, DJ said, “Yankees a National Embarrassment.” That would be a winner for the New York Post, but since we are Nationals fans and not Yankee fans, DJ loses. Sorry!

That means that the winner for this week is Elizabeth. Her headline was “The Nationals consider officially renaming themselves the Notionals in hopes for winning some games.” This came across as a believable headline, since it’s something totally ridiculous to try to change the team’s fate as opposed to, say, firing the coach! But, we digress. Congrats Elizabeth!

Now, this week’s Game Time. For those of you who don’t know, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has passed away at the age of 50. This is sad news.

But, we at the Pake Shlake Band pride ourselves on turning frowns upside down. We are frown flippers of the first order. So, this week’s Game Time will be about Michael Jackson. And, we will play the PSB Original Game, Little-Known Facts. This is an easy game to play, but allow us to refresh your memories as to the rules. We give you a topic, and your goal is to come up with a humorous, if perhaps untrue, fact about that topic. If you want to get a sense of the game, check out the past few times we’ve played. OK, here is the topic.

Come up with a little-known fact about Michael Jackson.

Here’s what we came up with:

In the song “You Wanna Be Starting Something,” the refrain “Mama say mama sa mama musa” is actually an Urdu expression, which roughly translates to, “Biggy Diggy Sniggy Donkey!”

See how easy it is? Now, we know Jacko is a controversial figure, so you may be tempted to put in a response about some of his more questionable hobbies. Please remember this is a family site. In other words, no references to “Ben.” Thanks, have fun, and post your facts.

Hoy es viernes, pues hoy es Game Time. Español, ever heard of it?

Last week, we had a game about Gumball Machines, and you were asked to improve upon the already wonderful concept. Here were some of your answers:

Tony said he wanted some hand sanitizers because gum ball machines are gross. We say poppycock. We also say nincompoop. Sometimes we say nanny-nanny-boo-boo.

Mitch Hedberg wanted a gumball machine that spits out smaller gumball machines. That would be awesome. But Mitch Hedberg is dead. So he can’t win.

Then we had a good idea from DJ. He wanted to be able to choose your own color (and hence flavor) because you never want to get a gross purple one. Eew.

But the winner goes to Lorenzo with his answer: “Something that makes it taste like Bubble-yum and not gross stale gum.” It was a close call, but if all the gum tastes like Bubble-yum, who cares what color it is. Not us. So congrats Lorenzo for winning last week’s competition.

And now on to this week’s game. Since we at the Pake Shlake Band are Washingtonians at heart and in reality, we have decided to play a round of the PSB Original Game, Headliners. Here’s the news summary:

The Washington Nationals beat the New York Yankees 3-0 at Yankee Stadium to win the season series. Rookie pitcher Craig Stammen got his first Major League win for a team struggling to avoid becoming the worst team in the history of baseball. The Nats currently sit in last place in the majors but were able to win the series against the most successful American sports team in history. Third baseman Alex Rodriguez went 0-4 in the game to go hitless during the three game series, while National’s counterpart Ryan Zimmerman was 3-5 in the win. The game was delayed over five hours due to torrential rains in New York. Coming into the series, the Yankees were 23-0 when allowing 3 or fewer runs. Washington ruined New York’s perfect record, winning 3-2 on Wednesday and 3-0 yesterday.

As always, your job is to think of a funny/clever headline. Here’s ours:

Delay Makes Pitcher show his Stammen-a

You’re up. Let’s see if you can hit a homerun with your headline. Or at least put an end to all the baseball analogies.

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.

Well well well, what have we here? GAME TIME!

Last week we got so excited over the Spelling Bee that we decided to have three, yes THREE, games dedicated to the linguistical challenge. We’re not gonna go over every answer, so here are the highlights:

In our game of Headliners, we liked big A’s “Kavya and Champagne to the Winer” but you can’t have a misspelled word in a headline about a spelling bee, can you?

Tony’s “All Children Left Behind - By Shivashankar” would be a great name for Kavya’s autobiography, but not so great for a headline. (It probably wouldn’t be a great name for an autobiography either, but we’re just being nice.) (Well, we were being nice until we changed our minds in the first set of parentheses).

So the winner for the Spelling Headliners goes to … Max! “Chand Is Loser, It’s Official” would be a perfect headline. It doesn’t mention who won the Bee, and it manages to pick on a kid who will probably hear a lot of that for the rest of his life.

In the round of Bests and Worsts, we asked for the worst word to misspell in the Bee. We got “b”, “unpreparedness”, “misspelling”, “champion”, and “home-schooling,” but the winner goes to “moron”. That would be a tough way to lose on national television. So congrats to Tony for winning that one after coming close in Autobiography Titlers.

Finally, we played a round of Little Known Facts. Those answers tend to be longer than a single word, so check out the comments on your own since they are all pretty funny. We epecially liked Bee-yourslef’s answer because we find it amusing when people don’t exactly understand our games.

Anyway, the winner of that game goes to DJ for his answer regarding shivalry and Zeb Roid’s sister.

And now on to this week!

It’s time for another round of the once played PSB Original Game, “Say What?” Well, it’s not too original, but all you got to do is come up with a clever caption for the picture and post it in the comments. Here’s the picture:

(Remember it from yesterday’s post about umbrellas?)

And here’s our caption:
I feel like Eeyore. And you’re like Tigger if Tigger ever had a flamethrower on his head.

Wanna play? Post your answer in the comments.

Okay, Whopping Game #3 coming up. You’ve played Headliners, you’ve played Bests and Worsts, now it’s time for the Little-Known Facts edition of Spelling Bee Game Day.

This game’s simple enough.

Come up with a little-known fact about a Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.

Here’s ours: After winning the 1968 Spelling Bee with the word “gyascutus” meaning “a fictional quadruped, whose legs are longer on one side than the other to facilitate living on a hillside,” Nathaniel Hufflebum spent the rest of his life searching the hills of Scandinavia for the beast. He didn’t understand what “fictional” meant.

Got a little-known fact about the Bee? Post it in the comments.

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?

As promised, we’re doing three Game Time games today. And here is the first - a round of the PSB Original Game, Headliners!

You know how to play, just give your headline to the following news story:

13-year old Kansas girl Kavya Shivashankar won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. by correctly spelling the word Laodicean, meaning “lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics,” in Round 16.

Broadcast on ESPN during the day and live on ABC in prime time, the Spelling Bee has grown in popularity over recent years. To make it more entertaining, the Spelling Bee committee decided to make the sentences more humorous than in previous years when the spellers ask for the word in a sentence.

And here’s our headline:
Kavya Kaptcha’s Krown

Your turn - post your answers in the comments. But remember, we got two more games coming your way soon, so hang tight.

Last week we played a new game, a PSB Original Game called Little-Known Facts. We asked you to come up with an interesting tidbit about the first pick of the NBA Draft and interesting tidbits were aplenty.

First Josh posted a little-known fact about the Washington Wizards’ 2001 pick. Sounds like someone’s still bitter about Kwame “the Salami” Brown.

Then we heard from Meg who deserves credit for linking the first game of Little-Known Facts to its precursor, the random question about Darwin and Lincoln. For that, she gets….nothing.

Then we had some plays on the word draft - “Is there a draft in here?”, “NBA Draft Dodging”, “etc”. But none of those win. No, the winner goes to Lorenzo, who claims that the New York Knicks wanted King James so badly in the draft that they were willing to change the Bronx to LeBronx for the 1st pick.

Congratulations LeLorenzo. Now on to this week’s game!

Or is it? We at the Pake Shlake Band have decided to change it up this week, and instead of giving you one game today, we’re giving you a whopping three. That’s right a WHOPPING three. So stay tuned, and the next three posts will be Game Time, Game Time, Game Time. And they shall be whopping.

It’s been a week since we last played Game Time, so that means it’s time to play Game Time. Isn’t that a coincidence!

We were playing a round of the PSB Original Game, Bests and Worsts. This time, we asked you what the worst time to get caught in the rain would be. We got some good answers, so let’s take a look.

Nick said, “With an open tote bag filled with gremlins.” Yikes, that is certainly a bad time. But, it serves you right for carrying gremlins in an open tote bag. I hope you learn your lesson!

Big A’s answer was, “On a high in the mountains in Spain. Rotten luck, eh?” We believe him to be making a reference to My Fair Lady, in which they assert that the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. And although we have been known to make allusions to My Fair Lady, Big A does not win.

So who does? Why, Luca, of course! He said the worst time to get caught in the rain is when “out for a night on the town in your brand new CHIA SUIT!” Nothing is worse than when your suit starts growing and turning green. Good job, Luca.

Now, to this week’s game. You may remember a few weeks back we played a game where you make up a little known fact linking Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. That was a fun one! And, since we at the Pake Shlake Band are always looking for fun new games, we are introducing the PSB original game, Little-Known Facts. How do you play? Well, very simply. We ask for a little-known fact about something, and you make one up. Let’s play!

This past week, the LA Clippers won the NBA Draft Lottery, which means that the Clippers will get the first overall pick in the NBA Draft. Here’s the game:

Create a little-known fact about the first overall pick of the NBA Draft.

Remember, it doesn’t have to be true. In fact, truth is frowned upon. Just make it funny. Here’s our answer:

In the 1987 NBA Draft, there was no first pick, just two second picks.

OK, your turn. Post your answers in the comments. Also, feel free to give us your feedback on our new game, or any other of the Game Time games that we play. Enjoy!