pieing

Other players have become well-known and celebrated for their pieing.

Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at a person or people.

More recently, pieing has also become a political act.

Members have been tried for battery and assault as a result of their pieing.

Activists sometimes engage in the pieing of political and social targets as well.

Thomas hadn't invented pieing, but his contributions to the art were seminal.

They spray-paint Packer's limo and later one subjects him to a pieing.

Sometimes pieing targets suffer the prank with good humor.

Pranksters have taken to targeting politicians and celebrities with their pies, an act called pieing.

"Pieing" can result in injury to the target and assault or more serious charges against the pie throwers.

Activist David Horowitz said of his pieing, "These attacks are sinister."

A: Pieing is not so much a personal attack, as it is an attack on authority, secrecy, corruption, and greed.

In the United Kingdom, the comical or political act of pieing is conventionally done with a "custard pie".

Byyny claimed he incurred numerous dry cleaning bills and that his cheek was slightly bruised as a result of the pieing.

Aron Kay, also a Yippie, went on to take up Forcade's pieing tactics.

Godin has a particularly colourful way of expressing himself, using terms like "tempêtes patissières" (pastry storm) to describe his pieing.

Newsweek columnist Gersh Kuntzman wrote that pieing "deserves to be one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture."

Emily McCoy, 37, of New York City was taken into custody and charged with assault after the pieing.

In response to the pieing of the Fisheries Minister, Byrne denounced the attack on the minister as an act of terrorism.

Pieing may also be part of a resurgent wave of political theater, typified by the protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

A noted victim of pieing was Microsoft founder Bill Gates who was pied in Belgium in 1998.

Pieing and pie fights are a staple of slapstick comedy, and pie "tosses" are also common charity fundraising events, especially in schools.

The first political pieing was carried out by Tom Forcade, when he pied a member of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1970.

Milwaukee Yippie Pat Small was the first person to be arrested for a pieing, following a hit on a Miami alderman prior to the convention protests in 1972.

Stéphane Dion also pressed charges against the group after his pieing, resulting in convictions of assault against group members Patrick Robert and Benoit Foisy.