# What is "Pie"? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 31, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785 "2002-12-31T01:06:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/1 "2002-12-31T01:06:59Z")
I didn’t catch this the first time around. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/2 "2002-12-31T01:30:32Z")
May I suggest one of the following, from my good friends at [Merriam-Webster](http://www.m-w.com): > [@](#): > > 1 : a meat dish baked with biscuit or pastry crust – compare POTPIE > 2 : a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both Other meanings available at the aforementioned site. ---
**Author:** ![BurglarGenie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BurglarGenie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurglarGenie)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/3 "2002-12-31T01:34:00Z")
Or you could try to figure out the deeper meaning at [http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/index.htm](http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/index.htm) and remember: when come back, bring pie. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/4 "2002-12-31T03:08:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*from[here:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148441) > \ ***How will the smilies be chosen?** > First the staff will review the smilies and reject any that in their judgment do not meet the SDMB “community standards”. The proposals that make the cut will then be displayed on a web page, and we will have a poll in IMHO to determine which of those smilies to add to the MB. The polling process will use approval voting, the same method as used in the first smiley election. Even though this is the wrong forum, may I suggest a “Blushing, yet Grateful” smiley? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/5 "2002-12-31T05:50:47Z")
Are you trying to be cryptic? What does the smiley poll have to do with pie? ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/6 "2002-12-31T05:59:10Z")
Looks like someone posted a response in the wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/7 "2002-12-31T07:33:43Z")
I think I understand now, pie for everybody? Actually I am not really sure. err nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/8 "2002-12-31T09:13:38Z")
Hmmmmm…Let’s call it a _whoosh_ on my part, even if it might not be. Is pie what I think it is? A quote from another site? If it is, granted, I didn’t quote from another site _per se_, but was trying to demonstrate acquired knowledge as well as (jokingly) pointing out my then current predicament by suggesting a smiley. Humor, like a frog, dies when it is dissected; perhaps it was rightly called for in this case. OTOH, if it is something else entirely, the aforementioned _whoosh_ came back around and hit me in the back, didn’t it? * * * Fixed coding error.-- CKDH ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/9 "2002-12-31T09:15:03Z")
Coding error. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/10 "2002-12-31T18:26:23Z")
**Arnold** , he was trying to say that he was blushingly grateful for the help provided by you and **BurglarGenie**. ---
**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/11 "2002-12-31T22:02:27Z")
I like pie. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/12 "2003-01-07T03:23:31Z")
Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/13 "2003-01-07T05:09:41Z")
Pie: a round, tasty pastry with a gushy, sweet filling. Or perhaps you meant “pi”, a Greek letter “P” used in mathematics to represent a physical constant best known as the ratio of the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-pie/145785/14 "2003-01-07T05:40:41Z")
Cheese dip?