Pie

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She could make nothing of it except for the title at the top, which was Printer's Pie, in very black capital letters.

But even that spelled wrong, she said to herself.

It should be P-I-E.

The rest was a jumble of letters and figures and punctuation marks of all kinds and sizes.

Perhaps it's a puzzle.

But show me first your penny, he added absentmindedly.

While he talked he had been tearing the paper into the form of scalloped circle, and finally handed it to her.

Alice was somehow not in the least surprised that the paper pie had become brown and warm and fragrant, and the letters P-I-E had turned into the usual row of cuts in the crust.

A resolution came over from the Senate.

And somebody organized Pie Day, which brought down single slices of sugar cream pie for all the legislators and staff.

And they had a big deal out of it.

And when the resolution came over to the House, and, Danny, you'll remember what the economy was like in 2009.

Yep.

All right, we'll go to, uh, Keegan's Slice of the Pie.

Last week it was the, um...

Where, where is it? It was the, uh-

It's Ohio State plus one and a half.

People vote on YouTube, vote on X, send it to James at crimsoncast260 on X.

And, uh, we'll see if we can turn that into a Slice of the Pie for Keegan next week.

Yeah, I'll have the poll up, uh, Thursday afternoon.

It was posted by Politics Joe.

And the picture that accompanied it was, um, a picture of, um, Kate and Wills and Georgie Porgie, Pudding, and Pie, and the caption, in caps, was just, "BOY GOES TO SCHOOL!" And I, I, I just thought that we should kick off with this unbelievable news, because we know you've been lying awake at night thinking, "But where's he going? Tooting Comp? Moss Side Grammar?"

Mm.

Mm.

And, um, th-this, this person, I mean, they did a whole-- they did the cycle trail basically in Central Otago.

But the, the Sixt, as in the car rental company, people told her at the airport, uh, how good the pies were.

And, um, she went, "Sanger's Pies." I've never heard of Sanger's Pies in Cromwell.

They sell the Southlander.

Corned beef, mustard, and peas.