Last week, your Game Time goal was to come up with a sentence or two about Kombucha. After the votes were tallied, Tony came out as the winner. You did a kombucha job!

This week, we will play your favorite PSB original game, Headliners. Recently, we at the Pake Shlake Band have been going a little political. (Have you seen Mike’s political cartoons?) So, we have decided to change gears a bit, and go with an article totally unrelated to politics for you to give a headline to. Here it is:

The website shlake.com, the official home of the Pake Shlake Band, turned one on Wednesday. The two founders, Mike and Johnny, were seen dancing behind a cake with a big flaming number one in it.

Here is our headline:
Shlake.com Turns One: Who Cares?

Your turn to make a headline. Put your responses in the comments.

Alright here we go: kombucha, cominatcha. We asked you all to come up with a new definition for the word Kombucha and use it in a sentence. The word, not the definition. Pick your favorite.

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Remember to Kombucha because the poll will close first thing tomorrow morning.

It was Joke Time last Friday, where we ask you to create a set-up for a predetermined punchline. We counted the votes, and Tony edged out the competition. Well done.
On Tuesday, Johnny mentioned a magic Chinese elixir. We thought we would make this week’s Game Time about it.

Use the term “Kombucha” in a sentence or short dialogue.

But, you don’t have to Kombucha to mean Kombucha. That is to say, create your own imaginary definition, and let context clues make your definition clear. Here is ours.

Mike: Hey, what’s that?
Johnny: Oh, it’s a Kombucha.
Mike: Aw, it’s so cute!
Johnny: Don’t touch! It’s poisonous!

See how it works? In our dialogue, Kombucha was some sort of cute yet poisonous creature. Now, you try.

You ever hear the one about dictionaries and cookbooks? We heard like ten of ‘em. Pick which joke is the funniest.

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Vote quickly because the polls close tomorrow at 9. Get it?

Our last Game Time involved stories about pirates. Based on your votes, Big A won, for his clever response about the economic crisis. Nothing like an economic crisis to get us thinking about pirates. Well done.

So, as you probably know, jokes were a big part of this week’s theme; that is to say, jokes were this week’s theme. We talked about jokes, and jokes, and more giocs. So, to continue the week’s theme, our gioc will be about jokes.

Think of a better set-up question to the following punchline.

Throw two dictionaries and a cookbook on the floor!

Our original question: Wanna know how to quickly drop 10 pounds?

Our new question: What do you do when you see a huge cockroach crawling on the ground?

See? Simple as pie. No, not simple as pi. Pi is a very complicated mathematical concept. Pie is a delicious dessert. Post your answers, or rather, your questions, in the comments.

Arr, last Friday be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arr! We forced ye scallywags tell yer best pirate tales, an’ now it be time fer a pirate lord to be crowned. Cast yer votes.

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Ye best be sure to vote, fer we pirates are nothin’ if not democratic.

Ahoy, ye landlubbin’ bilge rats! As Cap’n Shlake be notin’ yesterday, today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Aye! And since the crew of the Pake Shlake Band have always been inclined ter talk silly, we can nary think of a better holiday! And, in fact, we be making you lily-livered cockroachers celebrate it too, with today’s Game Time. But first, it be pleasin’ ter the crew if we declared the winner of last week’s game. Max, the scourge of the seven seas, be the victor. And he be gettin’ some booty, where booty means a shout out.

Arr, ye scabbies, now it be time for this week’s game. And here it be:

Write an enjoyable short story in pirate talk.

And please be keepin’ yer sea yarns short, under 40 words. How can ye write a tale in so short a span, says you? Check out ours, says I.

Where be I? It was dark as pitch. A rotten foul stench was in the air. A brig? Nay. I looked around. Smelly old socks. Sweaty towels. Oh no! It be Davy Jones’ gym locker!

See, me hearties? It be easier’n than takin’ rum from a merchant vessel. Post yer sea yarns in the comments. And be thankful ye can, because remember: Dead men tell no tales.

On Friday, we began another game of Headliners, and it was all about pigs and politics. We got your headlines, so here’s the summary of the article again for you. Read it, read the headlines, and vote.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is accusing John McCain’s campaign of “lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics” in claiming he had made a sexist comment against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Obama on Wednesday called the Republicans’ criticism of his use of the phrase “lipstick on a pig” a “made-up controversy.”

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Vote. Or else.

It was poetry time in our last Game Time, with presidential hopefuls as the subject. The votes are in, and Sid’s poem about Cheney in lipstick wins. I hope the infamous pig in lipstick was not offended.

Speaking of make-up-wearing porcines, we thought we would let you all weigh in on the debate. You get to make a headline for the “lipstick on a pig” comment and the aftermath. What’s that? You don’t know what I am talking about? What have you been watching the last 3 days? Certainly not the cable news networks! Well, I guess we should help you out. Here is a recap, courtesy of the AP:

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is accusing John McCain’s campaign of “lies and phony outrage and Swift-boat politics” in claiming he had made a sexist comment against vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Obama on Wednesday called the Republicans’ criticism of his use of the phrase “lipstick on a pig” a “made-up controversy.”

Here is our headline:

Obama Apologizes: He hopes no pigs were offended by comparison to Palin

Post your headlines by Tuesday, and then vote for the winner on Wednesday.

Last week, we asked e’erbody to write a haiku based on the happenings at the recent political conventions. Now it’s time for you to vote for the best one.

We took the leisure of giving everyone’s haikus a title.

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And how appropriate when the race for the White House - VOTE!