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Pie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since the early days of the medium, and real life pranksters have taken to targeting celebrities with their pies (often called "pieing"). Tarte Tatin is a one-crust fruit pie that is served upside-down, with the crust underneath. A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pie-throwing   (866 words)

infoshop.org News Kiosk - India, Bangalore, THE PIE-RECT SIDE OF ECO-ACTIVISM Pie is a particular tactic that is great in some circumstances, and in others, the results would not be quite as sweet. Pie has little effect without a wide and live audience, and the media both creates the reality and the audience. But pie injects humour into protest, and a visual esperanto, a universal message that is conveyed via action that everyone understands. www.infoshop.org /news5/pie_india.html   (1094 words)

PIEMAN'S HOMEPAGE-HAPPINESS IS A CREAM PIE (THE PIE IS THE LIMIT) The Pieing Nuns are critical of the gay mainstream's fight for gays in the military and domestic partners legislation which refuses to aggressively challenge the climate of gay violence heating up around the country. The pie was thrown Thursday night as the governor, who was meeting with the Whittier Neighborhood Association in south Minneapolis, walked past a group of protesters who were behind a police line. The pie was carefully selected: lemon meringe, sticky like the mess you find yourself in; old and stale, just like the lies you've spread and excuses you've used to keep the truth about what went down at Gustafsen Lake a secret from the people of British Columbia and Canada. www.pieman.org /archives.html   (9883 words)

[11-17-98] Sandy Close and Alex Doubinin, Interview with a Pie Thrower Pie throwing is resurfacing as the tactic of choice for many activists -- animal liberationists, Earth First!ers, advocates for the homeless -- and San Francisco is at the forefront. He does acknowledge that pie throwing is inappropriate in certain contexts -- a funeral, for example, or an execution. Decker says pie throwers are not drawn by the celebrity of public figures but by their unaccountability. www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/4.23/981117-pie-thrower.html   (803 words)

"Al Pieda" Targets Ann Coulter - October 22, 2004 The Tucson men, both 24, were arrested last night after throwing custard cream pies at author Ann Coulter during her speech at the University of Arizona. The report describes the woven cloth backdrop as a "muslim scrim." The pie provocateurs were booked into the Pima County Jail--where the below mug shots were snapped--and scheduled for a court appearance today. The felony charge resulted from damage to a backdrop that school officials estimated at $3000. www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/1022042coulter1.html   (132 words)

Point Five: Conservatives Develop Deadly Pie Throwing Techniques Pie throwing used to be the sport of brain-dead liberal college students, a mostly harmless pursuit, but the once majestic pastime has turned into a deadly game of life and death now that conservative extremists have adopted the technique. This isn't the happenstance, frat boy pie throwing of your father's day, this is the age of hi-tech computer designed pie tins and laser guided tarts. The LACD (Liberals Against Civilized Debate), originally organized to help liberals improve their own pie throwing, has changed direction and taken up the crusade against conservatives employing the same tactics. pointfivestep.blogspot.com /2005/05/conservatives-develop-deadly-pie.html   (471 words)

Pie-throwing protester charged with assault - The Minnesota Daily After Greenberg smeared the pie in her face, Flynn took a step and slipped on the pie's creamy ingredients; she was not injured in the fall. Bob Greenberg, 32, of Minneapolis, was charged with disrupting the legislative process and fifth-degree assault for hitting the Minneapolis senator in the face with a cream pie on March 30 as she left Senate chambers at the state Capitol. The incident follows what Greenberg called "a rash of pieings" around the globe, including a March 25 incident where Gov. Jesse Ventura's bodyguard was hit with a pie intended for the governor. www.mndaily.com /printfriendly.php?id=10140&year=1995   (573 words)

Pie-Faced - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com Throwing a pie at someone who deserves it is one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture. Why throwing a pie at someone who deserves it is one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture. The last few days have seen the predictable lament that the pie-throwers represent the worst thing about democracy—people so inarticulate that the only way they can counter such toxic thinkers as Coulter is to seize the moral low ground by trying to curtail their free speech. www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7548667/site/newsweek   (701 words)

Crit Pie Throwing [Pie tossing] allows us to communicate our message to a greater extent.” The February third, 2000 Guardian recounts that after San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was struck by three pies, he chased down one of the Biotic Baking Brigade members, and broke his own ankle while tackling her (Vidal, 5). A pie in the face has a proud slapstick history, but when it comes to this unique form of civil disobedience the jury is still out - - literally. The Biotic Baking Brigade is an environmental group who expresses itself by planting a pie in the kisser of any environmentally unfriendly fascist who dares to make a public appearance. forensics.truman.edu /CoachingPages/CritPieThrowing.html   (1471 words)

PCReview: Fraser's Razor by Ian Fraser: The Pie's The Limit! - August 26, 2002 Pie throwing at politicians has become such a commonplace and wonderful way of letting the electorate show their good humour and disgust at politicians, that the French, for instance, even have a word for it - 'entartement'. If you have the bandwidth, you can also watch an online 28 minute film, showing many great moments of pie throwing at politicians, at The Pie's The Limit! And for a serious article on the meaning of throwing messy-but-delicious pies at politicians, read Tried and Pied. www.chico.mweb.co.za /pc/razor/2002/aug/020826-raz.htm   (634 words)

FORWARD : News But, Jaffe clarified, "He didn't throw a pie at Sharansky's face; he placed a pie in Sharansky's face." This is a distinction, Jaffe said, that renders the incident harmless. Seconds after the pie was thrown, Greenhouse was tackled, thrown to the floor and arrested. As he approached the podium, a cherry cream pie was hurled in his face. www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.09.26/news10.sharansky.html   (506 words)

National Pie Day -The American Pie Council - www.piecouncil.org Pie has become so much a part of American culture throughout the years, that we now commonly use the term "as American as apple pie". If pie making is not in your schedule, stop by your favorite pie shop or grocery store and bring home a gift of love and enjoyment for the whole family. The first pie recipe was published by the Romans and was for a rye-crusted goat cheese and honey pie. www.piecouncil.org /national.htm   (878 words)

The Pied Sniper: Noel Godin's Flavorful Terrorism Although this was the first of his pastry onslaughts ever to achieve mass notoriety in the United States, Godin has been throwing pies at the rich and pompous for nearly thirty years in Europe, where he is renowned as "L'Entarteur" ("he who pies"). Godin believes that a pie should never be thrown: for a hit to be done properly, one must get close enough to the target to press the pie directly into the face without flinging it through midair. Godin masterminded the flawlessly executed Bill Gates pie ambush in Brussels, with at least four cream pies pummeling the Microsoft chairman directly in the face as he entered a government building to attend a formal reception with Flemish dignitaries. www.parascope.com /mx/articles/godin.htm   (1778 words)

RNC NOT WELCOME: About Us (You'll be able to go anywhere!) You can put your pie in a paper bag, wear it under your coat, carry it in a bowling ball bag, or place it in a container with a plastic lid and carry it in a non-descript, standard-size briefcase. Agent Apple, who mashed a lucious coconut cream pie on self-inflated economist Milton Friedman's face, said afterwards, "His generation is selling our future down the drain. Pour into the pie crust and chill for at least 2 hours. www.rncnotwelcome.org /pie.html   (864 words)

NJJN - Defense lawyer gains new delay in Rutgers pie-throwing case I saw him put the pie in the minister’s face, and I saw the bodyguards beat him to the ground. www.njjewishnews.com /njjn.com/63005/njpie-throwing.html   (1032 words)

Pie-Throwing Trial Opens With Poke at Brown's Humor / S.F. mayor appears in case against 3 pranksters Ladies and gentleman, this is a case about pie,'' she said, presenting a real apple pie to the jury. The three, members of a pie protest group called the Biotic Baking Brigade, could each be jailed for a year if convicted. ``The pig ate up all the pie that was thrown at the mayor,'' Renfro said, adding that he has no idea what the courtroom fuss is about now. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/14/MN85886.DTL   (856 words)

Arizona Daily Wildcat - UA student arrested for pie throwing - Monday, October 25, 2004 A UA student and a 24-year-old Tucson man were arrested on three charges each, including a federal charge, after throwing pies at political speaker Ann Coulter during her speech Thursday night at Centennial Hall. Smith told police they weren't throwing the pies at Coulter, but at her ideas, according to reports. Tucson man also arrested for throwing pies at Coulter wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/98/45/01_1.html   (536 words)

Coulter Speech Incites Pie-Throwing From Kerry Supporters According to the police report, Smith and Wolff were merely "throwing the pies at her ideas not at her." The popular conservative columnist was in the midst of taking questions from the audience when William Zachary Wolff, a student at the university, and Philip Edgar Smith ran onstage with custard pies and threw them in her direction. Conservative syndicated columnist and bestselling author Ann Coulter was the victim of a pie assault last Thursday by two men who disagreed with her political views in an attack dubbed "Al Pieda." www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/newswire/news2004/1004/102504-coulter.htm   (537 words)

CBC Calgary - Crown wants jail time in pie-throwing case The lawyer for a man accused of hitting Premier Ralph Klein in the face with a banana cream pie says the Crown is asking for an inappropriate jail term in his client's case. Ralph Klein was hit with a pie at his Stampede breakfast in July. In 2000, while visiting PEI, Chretien was hit in the face with a pie by a protester. calgary.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=ca_kleinpie20030911   (397 words)

“SPEAKING PIE TO POWER” -- A GLOBAL PASTRY UPRISING throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate. From the pie-toss at the county fair to vaudeville, stage, and screen, shoving a pie in someone’s face has been a common act of slapstick and subversion. Agent Lemon Meringue, one of the “Cherry Pie Three,” echoes this, noting that protests and marches are so commonplace that in order "to catch people's attention, it's got to be something bigger and different. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~audreylv/Pranks/pie.htm   (4317 words)

CBC News:Klein pie-thrower pleads guilty CALGARY - The man charged with throwing a pie at Alberta Premier Ralph Klein last summer pleaded guilty in court Wednesday. Klein was speaking at his annual breakfast at the Calgary Stampede when Geoghegan passed by him, then doubled back and threw the pie, hitting Klein on the side of his face. Christopher Peter Geoghegan, 24, tossed a banana cream pie at the premier in July. www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/05/26/canada/pie_20040526   (206 words)

CTV.ca PM won't testify at pie throwing trial Brown, a 24-year-old actor, allegedly shoved the pie into the PM's face while at an agricultural fair in Charlottetown last August. The judge in an assault trial in Charlottetown, P.E.I. for the man accused of smacking Prime Minister Jean Chretien with a pie, has decided again that the PM does not need to testify. Last year, two men hit Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Stephane Dion with a pie at a Montreal soup kitchen. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1027383451413_22792651   (326 words)

B E R T I S E V I L : Pie Throwing What they do is throwing pie's in the face of innocent hard-working tax-payers like Bill Gates of Redmond-based software giant Microsoft. As you might have heard, at the moment there is a worlwide pie-throwing movement active. It is a publicly known secret that Bert has been supporting Linux from the beginning, so we have reason to believe that he is one of the major forces behind the Pie Terrorists.. www.bertisevil.tv /pages/bert024.htm   (116 words)

Liberals Wage War By Throwing American Pie - Guest Proving their obviously superior intellect, the assailants told police that they were “throwing pies at her ideas not at her.” I suppose it depends on your definition of ‘throwing.’ Liberals Wage War By Throwing American Pie - Guest A week prior, on Wednesday, March 30, editor of the Weekly Standard William Kristol was attacked with pie during his speech pertaining to US foreign policy at Earlham College — ironically known for its peace studies program. www.americandaily.com /article/7567   (1003 words)

Political Wire: More Pie-Throwing Activists This follows similar recent incidents of pie throwing and salad dressing dousing. David Horowitz, "a conservative activist who criticizes what he calls the leftist domination of college campuses was struck with a pie" at Butler University last night, the Indianapolis Star reports. If you missed reading Political Wire for the last few days, check our quick summary of the last 30 days of political news. politicalwire.com /archives/2005/04/07/more_piethrowing_activists.html   (244 words)

MORGAN COUNTY CITIZEN: Raffle, pie–throwing auction to benefit March of Dimes Pies will be auctioned off, and the highest bidder will have a chance to throw a pie at people from across Morgan County such as Nelson Hale of Harris Furniture, Shelby Jones of Subway, Chris Bonham, CEO of Morgan Memorial Hospital, and Terry Tall of Kiddy Land. Along with the pie auction, a raffle drawing will be held for over 30 items, including gift certificates and gift baskets to local restaurants and stores, automobile tune-ups. On Saturday, October 4, the pie is the limit. morgancountycitizen.com /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:917   (340 words)

Physics Problem The coefficient of static friction bewteen your hand and a pie plate is about (0.8). If you want to put a cream pie in someone's face, what minimum acceleration do you need to keep it from sliding down your vertical hand? zebu.uoregon.edu /~probs/mech/newt/Friction6/Friction6.html   (41 words)

Motel Magazine: Bill Gates Pie-in-the-Face Page Apparently, Bill is trying to never again have to wash or comb his hair and this pie incident may force him to have to take a shower. There may be additional reasons why the pie on Bill Gates' face is "unfortunate, especially in light of the type of things Bill is trying to do." (see below). We at Motel cannot think of a person more deserving of a pie in the face. www.motelmag.com /piepage.html   (430 words)

Pie Throwing Class 101 We had all sorts of pie throws - the classic pie in the face (girl comes up to victim and shoves her pie in the victim's face - GENTLY of course!), the pirouette (girl twirls up to victim, then pie in face), the two-sider (two girls approach from either side)... We did this skit basically as a "how to throw a good pie gag" instruction school. You will need a number of tin pie plates, lots of cool whip, and a very good-humored victim! guidezone.e-guiding.com /bgpieskit.htm   (95 words)

GSSA- Pie Throwing Dr.'s Waites, Feingold, Dixon, and Barker served as targets in a pie throwing event (Bob was traveling, Dr. Hammack was scheduled for last and by that time the crowd had disappeared, those crafty probabilists). In addition, Dean Goonen, Dr. Ferris, and Dr. Gordon were on hand to cheer the crowd on. What better venue to serve as a coming out party than at the 2002 Homecoming Carnival? www.nova.edu /GSSA/picts/pie.html   (87 words)

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