what's the news on the pie-thon?

[Robert Brewer]

Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou wrote:
> The only info so far:
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/046568.html

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote a bit more on his blog today:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/glyf/

"""Since everyone has been asking: Yes, Guido, being a good sport, did
offer to spare Dan from the pie-thon. Dan, also a class act, baked the
pies himself, and so Guido decided to share the pie with the community,
and it was eaten. I am proud to have carried one of these Pies of Peace
to the room where they were, after all, not thrown.

However, after the Pythons were placated, the Perl community was still
out for blood - delicious, banana-creme flavored blood. They (the Perl
foundation) auctioned off a second pie-ing, in addition to the original
Guido pie-ing, at a $500 opening bid. It sold for, if I was told
correctly, $514. As the blood-thirst's description implied, they did not
use a nice, baked Key Lime pie as would have been preferable. Morever,
despite her circus experience, nobody asked Gina how to properly stage
the pie-ing. I hope that future circus antics will be more expertly
choreographed.

Yes, I do have pictures."""