Yes, 'pie' is a tray of mixed-up metal type, usually deliberate and for a
specific purpose. The result of a spill is known as 'printer's pie'. I
suppose the term has some connection with 'pied' (via 'mixed')and maybe also
with the printer's measure 'pica'.
Incidentally, the Latin name for a magpie is 'Pica pica', presumably since
the bird's of mixed black and white colouring like a page of print. Or is
this too farfetched?
I worked briefly for a type-setter in my far-distant youth, and very
interesting too. Not that I was allowed to get my mitts on the real stuff,
being a young female who hadn't gone through the requisite apprenticeship.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: Misused Intelligence
> Definitely looks like redistributed brains, or, what do you call when, a
> tray of metal type faces leaves its shelf (usually pushed by accident by a
> young 'printers devil', or me, I did this once!) and the type goes flying
> across the floor (some verb like "Pie"?).
>
> Peter, These Bushies do have a lot of nasty pie on their face - what a
> gothic configuration you have composed! Where the public (the political)
> text - now in the current manipulative, fear mongering speeches (against
> the
> backdrop of the Senate investigation that insists no connection between
> Hussein's Iraq and Al Queda) - where these speeches fill public space
> with
> nothing but disgust for the purveyor.
>
> Reading Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism - currently hits close to the
> bone.
>
> Without evidence 'we' will frame and destroy you. (Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld,
> Gonzales).
>
> Later!
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Where currently there is a little essay with new work (poems) from my mom
> at
> 90:
>
> Richard Nixon?
>
> Bad enough for long enough, how you lose
> No matter what you want to do:
>
> I don't want to write about Nixon.
> Would you?
> I wouldn't waste my time on him.
>
> Barbara Moore Vincent
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>> -- Peter Ciccariello
>> Image - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
>> Word - http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/
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