Howdy, folks! Who wants to play a Game Time? You do! But, before we begin, let’s recap last week’s game.

We thought that “Hail to the Chief” was getting a little trite, and we asked you to think of a replacement. Well, after reading all the answers, we decided that our answer of “The Imperial March” was the best. But, since we feel bad declaring ourselves the winners, we will give the other options a second look.

Firstly, we thought Mary’s answer of “Jock Jams” was good but too vague. By our count, there are at least seven Jock Jams CDs, and that’s not even counting the “Jock Rock” and “Slam Jams” spin-offs. We don’t really approve of spin-offs. Since we couldn’t figure out exactly which song she meant, we couldn’t declare her the winner.

Next, Tony asked if we asked a similar question recently. Well, no, we didn’t. We asked what would Superman’s favorite song be. The President of the United States, is not allergic to Kryptonite, and therefore cannot be Superman. So, different question. But, guess what? “Jump for my Love” still loses. Sorry!

Sami gave a very good answer, “The Immigrant Song” in the sense of Led Zeppelin. But that got us thinking about “The Immigrant Song” in the sense of The Godfather theme. And then we got distracted.

Elizabeth’s answer was OK, but we certainly like DJ’s spin-off better. But, since we don’t really approve of spin-offs, we decided neither one should win. Although, we also decided to listen to the HBO movie intro again. That song is awesome!

So, we decided the winner should be…us! That’s right, folks. The Pake Shlake Band wins for our answer of the Imperial March. We said we felt bad declaring ourselves the winners, but not that bad. Now, onto this week’s game!

For those of you who don’t know, the Oscars happened last week, and there were some surprise winners. Well, no. Actually, all the winners were entirely predictable. But, that doesn’t make it not news! So, we are going to play the PSB original game, Headliners. Remember how to play? Try to think of a clever newspaper headline to this news story.

“Slumdog Millionaire” was the big winner in the 81st Academy Awards, winning for best picture and best director, Danny Boyle. Sean Penn won his second Academy Award for his leading role of Harvey Milk in the movie “Milk,” while Kate Winslet won her first Oscar for her leading performance in “The Reader.” Heath Ledger was posthumously awarded best supporting actor as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.” Pixar also won another best animated feature Oscar, this time for “Wall-E.”

Here is our headline:

“Milk” awarded best actor; “Cookies” snubbed.

Now it’s your turn! Post your headlines in the comments, and see if you can unseat the PSB at their own game. Not likely.

Hello, again. Well, another week has come and gone. But that means there is another Game Time to play. You guys remember last week’s game? It was a PSB Original game called Bests and Worsts, and we asked you to give us the worst nickname for a professional football team. (We were a little surprised that no one said the Detroit Lions. Man, they stink.) Anyway, we got a lot of good answers, and some not so good answers (Sweet Feet?), so, we wanted to give a few shout outs before declaring a winner.

First, we were gonna give Sami props for his shout out to Redskins’ third string quarterback from the 2002 season, until we realized his name was Danny Wuerffel and not Wurzelbacher. So, Sami gets a tsk tsk for not knowing enough Redskins history. Tsk, tsk, Sami!

Next, we give props to Meg for her answer of the Tampa Tutus, not because it was particularly funny, but because it led to Zo’s response of the Desmond Tutus, which was particularly funny.

DJ’s answer of The Boston Creme Pies would have won, if he hadn’t added the deliciously incompetent line. Incompetence is NOT delicious.

And finally, a good job to Max for his response of the Denver Last Dinosaurs, an obvious shout out to the obscure Saturday morning cartoon Denver, the Last Dinosaur, a show about a dinosaur named Denver who lived in modern times, modern being 1988. (Side note: The first line of that theme song was: “Denver! The last dinosaur! He’s my friend and a whole lot more!” A whole lot more than a friend? Now that’s getting into some freaky dino-loving for a kid’s show!)

But, after all those good responses, we declare Nick the winner, with his answer of “The New York Narcoleptics.” Well, done, Nick! You are our reigning champion!

Now, onto this week’s game. In case you didn’t notice, this was Rodent Week here at Shlake.com. That’s right, folks, in honor of Groundhog Day, we decided to dedicate some of our time to those furry pests that most of us dislike. (Most of us? You mean everyone except Willard?) Mike had a post about woodchucks, which, for those of you who don’t know, is actually the same thing as a groundhog! Crazy world, isn’t it? (Side note: Why would you call that creature a woodchuck or a groundhog if you could get away with calling it a whistlepig?) Then Johnny talked about ROUS’s, Capybaras, and former Eastern European nations in his post yesterday, so we decided to round out Rodent Week with another round of the PSB Original Game, Headliners. Here’s a brief news article summary, your job is to come up with a clever headline to the article.

Charles G. Hog, New York’s resident rodent meteorologist, bit the hand of Mayor Michael Bloomberg during the Groundhog Day ceremony. The bite was deep enough to cause the Mayor to start bleeding. The groundhog never came out of his home, so it was not determined if spring will come early, or if winter will last six more weeks.

Here is our answer:

Groundhog Bites Mayor; Asks for 5 More Minutes of Hibernation.

See? Simple enough. Now it’s our turn. Put your headlines in the comments, and see if you can dethrone Nick!

Last week, we asked everybody about to-be-President-now-already-is-President Obama’s cabinet. You told us who you wanted in, then you voted, and Emily wins by suggesting that wanted-to-be-President-now-is-not-President John McCain should be the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Congrats Emily, but really, congrats McCain!

This week, formerly-to-be-President-now-already-is-President-but-at-the-time-it-is-unclear-what-word-to-describe Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. 44th President, yes, but probably 1st formerly-to-be-President-now-already-is-President-but-at-the-time-it-is-unclear-what-word-to-describe. Anyway, because of this momentous occasion, we’ve decided to play another round of the PSB Original Game, Headliners.

Here’s the article summary, you’re job will be to come up with a headline:
Barack Obama was named the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday in front of over 1.8 million supporters. At 12:06 PM, Obama began to be sweared in on the steps of the Capitol. Chief Justice John Roberts incorrectly read the oath of office, causing an awkward moment as Obama repeated the mistake. The following day, the two restated the oath in the White House correctly, but this time President Obama did not put his hand on a Bible.

Here’s our headline:
Obama Brings Change: Rewords Presidential Oath

What’s yours?

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.

So last week, we played a game of Headliners about Facebook Scrabble and Scrabulous. We let you the readers vote, and you the readers have spoken. So congratulations to Meg for her Scrabble Squabble Squibble or whatever.

And now on to this week. We’re going to be playing another round of Headliners, but we’re going to ask that the answers are in a day early. We want to have all your answers in by Tuesday so that we can post the poll on Wednesday so that you can vote on Wednesday or Thursday so that we can have a winner on Friday so that we can write long sentences today.

Anyway, here’s the story:

On Thursday, NASA scientists announced that the Phoenix lander exploring Mars had confirmed the existence of water on the planet. This was done by analyzing an icy soil sample from the planet’s surface and then heating it. The discovery is a major breakthrough, creating more speculation about the possibility of life on Mars.

And here’s our headline:
Scientists Find Ice on Mars, Now Searching for Tequila and Limes

Post your headline in the comments, and do it before Tuesday if you please.

Hello, again! Last week, we asked you all to write stories about baseball, dead cats, and ice cream, three of our favorite things. Lorenzo wins primarily for mentioning St. Peterkins. Congratulationskins.

This week we thought we’d give Headliners another shot. You remember how to play? Here is the news article:

Hasbro, who owns the rights to the classic board game Scrabble, is suing the makers of Scrabulous. Scrabulous is an online version of the game designed for Facebook users. Hasbro seeks to have the knock-off immediately shut down. Alfred Butts created Scrabble 70 years ago.

And here’s our very own headline:
Hasbro senses Risk of Trouble, wants Monopoly on online Scrabble

Think you can do better? Post your healine in the comments. Oh and we want to try something new this week, so try to get your answers in as soon as possible. Let’s throw out Wednesday as the cut off date.

Hello, everyone! Big doings, this week. First off, early last week we had a post translating Shlakese into English. The term translated was “brav,” and we mentioned that we would use that word in a post this week, and the first person to post a comment on that post would get a shout out. Well, that post was about Wimbledon, and Emily was the first to post a comment. So, she gets a shout out. Emily!!!!

Next, we have to decide who won last week’s Game Time about the Celtics’ NBA Title. Your job was to think of a good headline to the news article. We got a lot of answers, but we are going to pick Nick as the winner, whose headline was “Lakers Drown.” Short and sweet, just like Nick. Congratulations, Nick! You won the first edition of Headliners!
Note: we do not know for certain if Nick is indeed short and sweet. We just guessed. He could be tall and mean for all we know, but we hope not.

Now onto this week’s game. We got a lot of responses last week for the inaugural game of Headliners, so we thought we would try the game again. (You see, to us, responses equal fun, so more responses equals more fun. And using fun, or equivalently responses, as an indicator, Headliners is a good game to play again.) To refresh your memory, this is how you play: we give you a brief summary of a news story; you think of a headline. Here is the article:

After over three decades at Microsoft, Bill Gates is retiring today. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen, two Harvard drop outs, established Microsoft, which is now the biggest software company in the world. Bill Gates was the richest person in the world for almost a decade, and now ranks third on the list of richest people, with a net worth of 58 billion dollars. The 52-year old will now focus his efforts on the charity he founded with his wife, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but will remain on Microsoft’s Board of Directors.

Here is our headline:
Bill Gates Goes on Standby

Give us your headline in the comments.

Last week we asked you to use the Shakese term “brav” in a sentence, with the winner getting a shout out. DJ wins, for criticizing our lack of shout outs. But, since he mocked us, he doesn’t get a shout out. How do you like that, DJ? Oh, wait, I think in telling him we wouldn’t should him out, we actually did. Curse you, DJ!

For this week’s Game Time, we are going to introduce a little game we like to call Headliners. Or, Headline Makers. Or Editor in Chief. Okay, so we don’t really have a name for it yet. The point is, this is how you play. We give you a brief summary of a newspaper article, and you get to pick the headline. We will pick the best one in the next Game Time. Here is the article:

The Boston Celtics win their 17th NBA Championship, destroying the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6, 131-92. For Phil Jackson, the loss means he is still tied with former Celtic coach Red Auerbach for most NBA titles with nine. Paul Pierce was named series MVP.

Okay, that’s the article. Your job is to come up with a clever headline to that article. Ours is this:

Big Three Win #17 in Six: 131-92, Statisticians Explode.

Post your answer in the comments.