From: Michael Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 12:30:51 MST
I'm reminded of that movie from the 70's with Scott Baio: Bugsy Malone,
which featured cream shooting machine guns.
Another idea: Super squirter that shoots indelible green dye. Squirting
greens with this would truly 'make them green', and easy for cops to
spot and pick up....
Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:39:57AM -0600, Chris Russo wrote:
> >
> > Here's a thought - why not make the pie out of feces?
>
> Because then it *isn't* a purposefully harmless prank.
>
> Look, the whole idea of the pie-in-the-face is that it's meant to be
> non-damaging. If it causes injury, or infection with a nasty strain of
> gut-rot, then it undermines its own purpose. You might as well ask "why
> not embed a hand grenade in the pie?" Answer: because then it wouldn't
> be an overtly harmless insult any more, and we're back to talking about
> people making political points by shooting at each other.
>
> Can you cope with people mocking you publicly, if they don't lay so much
> as an air molecule on your person?
>
> -- Charlie
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