The Devil's Dictionary: Pie
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
PIE
-n.
An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains.
- Rev. Dr. Mucker
(in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)
Cold pie is a detestable
American comestible.
That's why I'm done — or undone —
So far from that dear London.
American comestible.
That's why I'm done — or undone —
So far from that dear London.
(from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)
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