# Bring pie? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 9, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033 "2003-08-09T15:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/1 "2003-08-09T15:22:50Z")
Mods, feel free to move this to the appropriate forum. I somehow thought that the expression “When come back, bring pie!” was from _The Princess Bride,_ but perusing the quotes on IMDB proved fruitless.\* Someone please enlighten me: WTF does this refer to?? \*Perhaps it’s in the movie but IMDB deemed it unworthy of archiving… ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/2 "2003-08-09T15:31:40Z")
I don’t know if it was the origin, but I think it came to the SDMB from a flash cartoon [here](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/pie.htm) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/3 "2003-08-09T15:51:06Z")
Weebl & Bob is indeed the origin. I (like to) believe that I was the one who introduced it to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/4 "2003-08-09T16:10:28Z")
I don’t know how those guys did that without cracking up… pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie! ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/5 "2003-08-09T16:29:59Z")
Thank you jjimm… I can’t stop laughing. Now I have another great time waster. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/6 "2003-08-09T16:38:10Z")
There is some great Weebl & Bob desktop [wallpaper](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/backgrounds.php) too. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/7 "2003-08-09T20:39:09Z")
Don’t ask. Just bring. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/8 "2003-08-09T20:46:21Z")
wanker ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/9 "2003-08-17T02:06:40Z")
I only recently saw that on MTV (Weebl & Bob) “so _that’s_ where they get it from” we co ba, bri pi ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/10 "2003-08-18T06:47:28Z")
\*That’s \* where that comes from??? I’ve only recently discovered Weebl, but that expression I’d always assumed came from some famous piece of literature, or some classic movie, or perhaps a famous quote from the queen of England. wow. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/11 "2003-08-20T06:01:11Z")
Another couple of Straight Dope _memes_ - I’m embarassed to admit I can’t figure out where these came from: 1. 1920s death ray… 2. “In Soviet Russia, the lunch eats _you_!” (and variations on this formula) ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/12 "2003-08-20T13:12:37Z")
1920s style death rays is a fairly new phenomenon. Read [the GQ thread on scalar weapons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=202225) (or at least, the thread that started on scalar weapons) from the beginning, and take note of an unfortunate and historic triple-post by **Dogface**. ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Siegfried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siegfried)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/13 "2003-08-20T14:05:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarrenS \* > \*\*2) “In Soviet Russia, the lunch eats _you_!” (and variations on this formula) \*\* This is a variation of a routine used by a comedian in the US (who I believe defected from the USSR) named Yakov Smirnoff. I managed to that pieced together from an episode of _Family Guy_ (it is educational!). Here’s his [website](http://www.yakov.com). ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/14 "2003-08-20T14:50:57Z")
It’s times like this that I’m glad that I was there to witness the birth of “Assclown” (hint: it happened in #straightdope…) ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/15 "2003-08-20T16:57:42Z")
so btw, why is ‘hi opal’ always in a list of stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/16 "2003-08-20T17:10:48Z")
[From the Department of Beating a Dead Redundant Horse Repeatedly Redundancy Department] We really really really oughtta have a sticky thread, an entry in the FAQ, or somesuch other to cover all this stuff, just for the bandwidth savings, if nothing else. [/FtDoBaDRHRRD] [sub]Of course, since I’m not willing to write/update/maintain/host such a sticky thread my own lazy self, I’ll just shut up now.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/17 "2003-08-20T17:31:55Z")
I think that when you try to post a new thread, there should be a check-box that you must check, saying something like, “I have read the FAQ (link) and my question is not one of those answered there.” Yes, I know a lot of people would blindly check it and post the “-gry” question again, but it might save us from a few of the more egregious repeating threads in GQ. (“All your bases”, “Og”, “Gotcha ya”…) ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/18 "2003-08-20T18:23:25Z")
I like the way you think, lad. (I think I postulated putting a multiple choice question at the end of the registration process, making sure folks had at least browsed through the FAQ, but 'twere a while ago, now.) Oh yeah. Meant to address this earlier, but, well, I’m an idiot, and completely forgot. **shijinn** , the “Hi Opal” thing refers to folks posting a “list” which consisted of only two items. Example: 1. A list needs some substance 2. Generally, this means more than just two things 3. Hi Opal. A poster to these h’yar boards (with the words Opal and Cat in her user name) suggested that two items do not a list make, prompting a whole lotta folks to pad out two item lists with “Hi Opal” as the third item, to satisfy the conditions of said poster. Of course, lists of **more** than three items still crop up with the “Hi Opal” thing, pretty much beating an old joke into an early grave. Or an early joke into an old grave, take your pick. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/19 "2003-08-21T00:59:35Z")
All your Opal pie belong to us and our 1920s style death rays. Gotcha ya! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033/20 "2003-08-22T17:34:29Z")
Damn, **NoClueBoy**. Don’t think that one can be beat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bring-pie/194033.md?page=2)