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.

Deck the halls with boughs of Game Time! Fa la la la la, etc.

Last Week’s Winner

To get all of our fans in the Holiday spirit, we asked you to mash up two Christmas songs to form a new one. We got a lot of good responses, let’s take a look at some of them.

First, Tony started us off with a good mashup – “I saw Mamma kissing Dominic the Donkey” about an Italian woman and the family burro. Too much uovo-nog, perhaps?

Luca, big A and Lorenzo all had some fine answers ranging from “Deck the Snowman!” to “Rudolph the Red Christmas Song” to “God Rest Ye Chipmunk,” all of which came with their own stories describing the basic gists of the songs.

Russ one-upped them by providing not only the story of his new Christmas tune, but also providing a detailed description of the music video to his “We Three Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”. Unfortunately, that only earned Russ a silver medal.

Because the winner is… DBeck, a new reader who is showing up all over the Pake Shlake Band blogs, thanks to his recent commenting over at HoyaHoops.com.

Here was DBeck’s answer:

“Grandma Got Run Over by the Little Drummer Boy”

Set to a polka, this song depicts the poor little drummer boy, late to play his gig for baby Jesus and ill-equipped to be driving due to his age, running over Grandma as she walked home from our house Christmas Eve. You can say there’s no such thing as underaged percussionists driving over the elderly, but as for me and Grandpa we believe

We expect to hear that on the radio before the Holiday season is over. Or else it will be a Pake Shlake Band original song by next year.

This Week’s Game

We had a Christmas theme going this week, three different posts talking about odd holiday lyrics. And one post about Obama. So, we thought we would revisit that theme in our Game Time:

What is the weirdest lyric in a Christmas song?

We are gonna go with the old classic, Frosty the Snowman. Look at the lyrics, you’ll know what we mean.

Now it’s your turn. We ask that you not repeat any of the ones we’ve already used. You can use the same song if you want, but pick a different lyric. Now, play!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Game Time!

Last Week’s Winner

Last week, we played the PSB Original Game Little-Known Facts. Well, a few people played. Not many. It was kind of boring. We’ll declare Tony the winner since he was the first to respond.

We would wish Tony congratulations, but his win was not based on merit, and merit-less wins are hollow. Like tree trunks. Or swim trunks. Anyway, non-congratulations to Tony, a nod to Lorenzo, and a shake of the fist to the rest of you.

This Week’s Game

We are rapidly approaching Christmas, and as you may have noticed, holiday carols are filling the airwaves. And have been for about a month now.

A few Christmases ago, we asked you about an odd duet for a Christmas carol. This year, we are asking you a similar type of mash-up:

Combine two Christmas songs into one and describe what it is about.

We would combine “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” to get “Santa Claus is Coming for My Two Front Teeth,” a song about an elf who owes Santa money, can’t pay, and is now fearing retaliation. A classic Christmas/Mobster tune.

Your turn. Mash it up!

‘Tis the season to play Game Time! Fa la la la la la la la la!

Last Week’s Winner

There is no winner from last week, primarily because there was no Game Time last week. Last Friday was the day after Thanksgiving, and you know how that is: Shopping, sleeping, lounging around the house. So we were too busy to post. But, there was a Game Time two weeks ago, so we could probably still pick a winner for that one.

Two Weeks Ago’s Winner

Two weeks ago, we played the PSB Original Game Bests and Worsts, and asked for a person with the best name-appropriate occupation. We were thinking of picking Joey Bag of Donuts as our winner, but then he demanded victory, at which point we said, “No way, Jose!” which is appropriate since Jose is Joseph in espanol. Anyway, he doesn’t win for the simple reason that he said he should, which was probably true anyway.

That means Elizabeth is the winner! She snuck in under the wire, posting yesterday, which was theoretically six days late. So, you posted late and would have lost if Joey hadn’t been rude. But you somehow managed to win anyway! That’s the true definition of a champion! Well done.

This Week’s Game

Well, it’s after Thanksgiving, which means the Christmas season is upon us! Last Friday was “Black Friday,” the unofficial kickoff for holiday shopping. We would have posted about it last week, but we were to busy shopping, sleeping, lounging, you know how it is. But, the point is the holiday season is upon us, and what better way to kick of the holidays than with a Game Time?

We at the Pake Shlake Band have our fair share of PSB Original Games, in fact, we have a monopoly on PSB Original Games. If you know anyone else who has PSB Original Games, report them to the authorities. Or us. We’ll take care of them. Heh heh.

Anyway, we were looking through our records and found that we haven’t played Little-Known Facts in a while. So let’s!

Give us a little-known fact about Black Friday.

Here is ours:
On Black Friday, the one millionth customer to enter a Target store gets a great deal on a TV. But, so do the first 999,999.

Wow, we didn’t know that. Did you? Give us your little-known facts in the comments.

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?

For it’s one, two, three strikes your out at the old Game Time!

Last Week’s Winner

Halloween was last Saturday, and in honor of the ocasión we played a little game where you had to come up with a spooooooky story. Thing is, you had to start the story with “I was in the graveyard when…”

Look at the answers yourselves if you want to, but some weird stuff happened with everybody forgetting the “when” and then re-posting their old comment with some misspelled form of “proofread” at the beginning and then adding in the “when” all at the same time in the early morning.

We at the Pake Shlake Band call shenanigans. Bad shenanigans. Not good shenanigans.

Big A wins. End of discussion.

This Week’s Game

So the World Series took place this week, and six games later, we have a new world champion (if you consider the United States the “world” and a team with 27 championships as “new”).

Anyway, since “new” “world” “champions” seems like big news to us, we’ve decided to play a round of the PSB Original Game, Headliners. You remember how to play? You’ll figure it out. Here’s the news summary:

The New York Yankees won their 27th World Series Championship on Wednesday, defeating the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium. It was the first year the Yankees have played at the new Yankee Stadium after closing the stadium of the same name built in 1923 after last season. Despite Phillies’ 2nd baseman Chase Utley tying Reggie Jackson for most home runs in a World Series with five, Philadelphia could not come back from trailing the series 3-1. Hideki Matsui became the 1st ever Japanese born World Series MVP after hitting in six of the seven runs in Game 6. It was the first World Series championship for the Yankees since 2000, as it marked Alex Rodriguez’s first and the fifth for Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera.

And now our headline for this article? Here it is:
Jeter and Rodriguez Get Rings for Thumb; ARod Starts With Thumb To Look Cool

Let’s see if the PSB can’t crown a “new” “Headliners” “world” “champion”.

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.

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.

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!