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Ahh, Joanna, 'farfetched' is the land of poets. I go there often and bring back treasure. Androo On 10/09/06, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Misused > >> Intelligence<http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/2/1002/1024/Misused-Intelligence > >> .jpg> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- Peter Ciccariello > >> Image - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ > >> Word - http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.bam.com.au/andrew