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What is with all the pie?
Jessica Elytis
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09-02-2007 13:05
Okay.....I think I'm in love with, Ann.

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Rioko Bamaisin
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09-02-2007 13:05
/me running to a bakery
Ann Launay
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09-02-2007 13:06
From: Tomas Gandini
Ooooo a few of those little pecan pies, please.


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I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things.

Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
Victorria Paine
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09-02-2007 13:13
From: Annabelle Babii
Cake or death? Oops, sorry we're out of cake. Who'd have thought it would be so popular? Guess you'll have to take death. Just kidding. Here's your cake.



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Ilianexsi Sojourner
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09-02-2007 13:16
From: Annabelle Babii
Cake or death? Oops, sorry we're out of cake.

So my choice is 'or death?'
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Ann Launay
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09-02-2007 13:19
From: Ilianexsi Sojourner
So my choice is 'or death?'


I'll have the chicken, then.
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I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things.

Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
Chas Connolly
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09-02-2007 13:21
From: Ann Launay


Not sure whether to love you or hate you now. There's no way I can find that in RL right now without risking life and limb on the London underground. But I am impressed.
Tomas Gandini
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09-02-2007 13:25
Wow!! Thanks, Ann. Those really look yummy!

To hell with my diet, at least I'll die happy.
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Isablan Neva
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09-02-2007 14:12
The subject of pie has a unique history here on the SL forums. It is a running joke dating back to at least 2004 - the earliest I could find was a poll from Jauani Wu that listed Pecan Pie as a poll option, he created several polls with the Pecan Pie choice and it provided much amusement for all and sundry. Eventually the Pecan specification fell out of favor and the option for "pie" started showing up in polls on a regular basis after that as an option for people who couldn't care less about the poll subject but wanted to cast a vote for pie. Pie tended to win many of these polls :D

Over the years, it became a SL forums meme that any poll created without an option for pie was meaningless.
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Alicia Sautereau
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09-02-2007 14:18
enough with the pie! have a Cookie :D
Raynor Hammerer
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09-02-2007 14:20
From: Ava Glasgow
It's more a general internet forums thing. Google on this: forums "i like pie" -- you will see that it is not just an inside joke here, but is spread throughout the snark-o-sphere.


Then again, it DOES come kind of naturally when one of the most important tools in SL is a "pie menu" ...
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Walker Moore
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09-02-2007 14:28
From: ArchTx Edo
I keep seeing references to "pie" in the forums. I assume this is some kind of inside joke that I am not familiar with. What is with all the "pie" references? Can someone share the history of this with the rest of us?
Want a serious answer? I'm not sure of the origins of its use on web fora, but pie is traditionally a universal answer to any question, and a good indication that you don't know the real answer at all.

Pie is a distraction, an excuse; and it makes people think of tasty things to eat so they tend to forgive the person who used the term. ;)
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Incony Hathaway
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09-02-2007 14:33
3.146 (approximately)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Pi goes on forever.. transcendental...:)

"Despite much analytical work, and supercomputer calculations that have determined over 1 trillion digits of π, no simple pattern in the digits has ever been found"


very much like SL...


Pie method

The pie method is a method for fairly dividing a pie between two people (although the value of this approach is that it applies to any divisible goods). The basic idea is that one person cuts the pie, and the other person chooses which of the two pieces he wants. The person who cuts the pie has the opportunity to divide it into two pieces he believes to be equal; if this is the case, it should not matter to this person which of the two pieces the other person chooses. If the second person believes the pie has been cut unequally, this is not a problem; he merely chooses the piece he believes to be larger.

This procedure can be readily extended to more than two people. The first person cuts a piece he believes to be an even share. Then, in some order, each of the other people is given the chance to take that piece of pie. The person who cut the piece gets that piece if and only if all the other people reject it. The procedure then continues for the remainder of the pie with the next person in order who does not already have a piece of pie making the next cut. Note that the success of this procedure excludes the possibility of collusion; however, the effects of collusion can be reduced if a random rather than fixed order is used.

A related idea in social philosophy is the veil of ignorance.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_method"



"The veil of ignorance" .. ha! :)

Anyone want some pie?
Ava Glasgow
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09-02-2007 14:38
From: Raynor Hammerer
Then again, it DOES come kind of naturally when one of the most important tools in SL is a "pie menu" ...

Good point! :D

/me runs off to JIRA to petition for Coconut Cream to be added to the pie menu. :p
Raynor Hammerer
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09-02-2007 14:39
From: Incony Hathaway
3.146 (approximately)


Reminds me of that Doctor Who serial, "The Five Doctors", when the Master says:

"As easy as Pi!"
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Wynx Whiplash
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09-02-2007 15:04
I always thought the pie references all stemmed from this:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/
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Cole Riel
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09-02-2007 15:09
This is what happens when you have way too much time on your hands with nothing better to do.
Nika Talaj
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09-02-2007 15:10
From: Wynx Whiplash
I always thought the pie references all stemmed from this:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/


oh no. now every time i see "pie" i'm going to think "wanker". that's just cruel.

*swishes her cool HUDded neko tail happily* thanks wynx!
ArchTx Edo
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09-02-2007 15:13
Rhubarb pie is my favorite, with vanilla ice cream. Sweet and sour, sharp and tangy flavors all mingled together.
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Ann Launay
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09-02-2007 15:14
From: Ava Glasgow

/me runs off to JIRA to petition for Coconut Cream to be added to the pie menu. :p


Best I can do...

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I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things.

Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
Ann Launay
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09-02-2007 15:20
From: ArchTx Edo
Rhubarb pie is my favorite, with vanilla ice cream. Sweet and sour, sharp and tangy flavors all mingled together.


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From: someone
I am bumping you to an 8.5 on the Official Trout Measuring Instrument of Sluttiness. You are an enigma - on the one hand a sweet, gentle, intelligent woman who we would like to wrap up in our arms and protect, and on the other, a temptress to whom we would like to do all sorts of unmentionable things.

Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
Jesse Barnett
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09-02-2007 15:24
See now, pie is just kind of too neat and orderly for my taste. I am a cobbler type of person. Just throw it all in the pan and throw it in the oven. Either a good peach or fresh picked blackberry cobbler. If it would have been me, we would have cobbler menus instead, just a jumble of choices that pop up on the screen.
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Malachi Petunia
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quantitative analysis
09-02-2007 15:29
...because I'm a quantitative guy.

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Walker Moore
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09-02-2007 15:36
LMAO. Best pie chart evah. :D
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Jezabell Barbosa
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09-02-2007 15:39
I want a pizza pie!
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