Kossacks should appreciate this: the mother of all pie fights, from 1927, featuring 3000 pies (!), can now be restored.
This is hardly a diary, compared to the thoughtful, eloquent, well-researched and (often) witty and (very often) passionate writings of so many Kossacks. But I found reading this utterly cathartic, on a day of high heat, higher humidity, mixed news on all fronts, and worlds of trouble (with some good news from South Carolina - yay!)
This started me smiling:
Ah, the thrown pie. Among the sweetest delights in life is the sight of an airborne cream-and-crust concoction finding purchase. It is the great leveler....
This is the setup to a piece on the NYT detailing the discover of the lost second reel of a Laurel and Hardy film called "The Battle of the Century". So as we descend into debate and primary season, consider:
...Hardy drops a banana peel intended for Laurel in front of Ye Olde Pie Shoppe. A pie deliveryman slips on the peel and reciprocates with a pie to Hardy’s face. Hardy throws a pie in return, only to connect with a young woman’s derrière. She turns, receives another in the face, takes her time wiping the goo from her eyes, and stomps over to escalate matters.
Soon pies are hitting everyone: a man in a top hat; a patient in a dentist’s chair; a sewer worker peering from a manhole; a lunch-counter patron; a man preening after his shave and haircut; a woman tending flowers. At one point, Laurel is inside the pie deliveryman’s truck, filling orders for cream-coated people seeking sweet revenge.
Given dKos's history of pie fights, to say nothing of the many polls that end in Pie! I could not resist sharing.