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  • He's also being stalked by an assassin and a pie-thrower but is boring and badly written.

    David Cronenberg to Adapt Don DeLillo Novel Cosmopolis | /Film 2009

  • If a pie-thrower can provide the necessary evidence photos, video footage or on live TV, the Gottabet team will stump up the cash.

    £10,000 reward on offer for a pie in the face of Big Brother trio Thatsnews 2007

  • Sometimes it pays to duck, as Ann Coulter found out facing a pie-thrower.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007 2007

  • Student Luca Morreale of Hertfordshire said he stood in the line to enter Portcullis House for hours just ahead of the alleged pie-thrower and the man's two companions.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • Maybe it was something about the image of a Chinese woman in a room crammed with mostly white males at least the part of the room that was broadcast on BBC World Television, jumping up to defend her husband from an errant pie-thrower.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Even on Thursday, when the New York Times spelled out Nova's role-a caption reads, "Before a pie-thrower was 'Wendied,' he was 'Janeted'"--most media continued to stick to the tidier and, uh, punchier story of a Solo Superwoman.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Others noted that Deng - a volleyball player in her school days - had not just spiked the pie-thrower, she had also lifted the share price of News Corporation.

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Watts 2011

  • By walloping the pie-thrower, Deng instantly became a worldwide sensation, and is now variously known as Tiger Wife, Ninja Wendi, or, as

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • It's easy to mock him for being a glorified tickler and pie-thrower, but Griffey has had a huge role in improving what was a pretty morose clubhouse before he arrived.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • I was dismayed at the arrogance displayed in the editorial "Punishment for pie-thrower should be tempered (SN 9/01)."

    State News Top Stories 2010

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