For Students at Top Chicago Area Law Schools, It's All About the Pie

It's almost Thanksgiving, an entire American holiday centered around gluttony and based upon the kindness of people we later tried to exterminate. And football. And pie. Lots of pie. Now, normally pie is an unqualified good (unless you are on a diet, which I never am). It's hard to see how this all-American treat could be overcomplicated. But leave it to a group of law students to ruin pie....

onNovember 22, 2011 at 10:59 AMNovember 23, 2011 at 9:41 AM

Pie King didn’t cheat and that’s a crazy suggestion to make about a person you don’t know.

You were wrong and this is a ridiculous way to advance this pie drama. Instead of accepting your loss with dignity, you hit a person in the face with pie, called him a cheater when he wasn’t, then insinuated to the entire listserv that he was a cheater. I understand you ate a ton of pie and commend you for your efforts. But starting an e-mail with “to be fair” doesn’t actually make it fair when everything you’ve written is not fair. Pie King didn’t participate in any nonsense, he came to an honest all-American pie-eating contest to eat pie the honest way: by putting it in his mouth instead of on other people’s faces.

I would like to end this thread on a congratulatory rather than accusatory note, so let’s agree this was an honest misunderstanding, and that the ultimately the best eater won and praise be unto the efforts of all the contestants involved.