The pie-throwing attacker is a comedian who calls himself Jonnie Marbles, according to The Telegraph.
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And Desperate Dan and his cow pie-eating gang may well have the last laugh.
But to its proponents this is not pie - or indeed a power station - in the sky.
"You know, there were so many pie-in-the-sky dreams back then, " he says ruefully.
To her every address she appended a term of endearment: sweetness, monkey, pie-pie.
"Before we started launching people into space as private citizens, people thought that was a pie-in-the-sky idea, " He said.
He commandeered the pie-smashing duties last season, elevating the act of slamming whipped cream onto one's face into a science.
The point of this pie-charting is that Microsoft's computer OS footprint is a mighty 92 percent across all Windows versions.
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Murdoch is lucky that a prankster got close enough to spatter him with shaving cream from a failed pie-in-the-face attempt.
It's time for them and their allies to stop focusing on their pie-in-the-sky expectations and embrace what can be achieved.
During the fall season, life at the museum gets even more interesting: how about pie-eating contests and Amish outdoor furniture for sale?
That significant pie-sharing is what led the NFL to its current impasse.
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But it is not only the pessimists who think this is pie-in-the-sky.
Direct-to-consumer advertising was 14% of the promotional pie--significant, but not overwhelming.
The production, which starred Michael Ball as the demonic barber and Imelda Staunton as the pie-making Mrs Lovett, recently ended a run in the West End.
Some current book favorites include how to build a ship in a bottle, how to make a stealth piano bench, and how to make Pie-Eyed Meat Pie.
Mensch has gained prominence in recent months after questioning Rupert Murdoch just before that infamous foam-pie-throwing incident in Parliament, and for a recent Twitter war with Piers Morgan.
Speaking on the Sunday Politics show in the West Midlands, Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East Emma Reynolds described the plan as a "pie-in-the-sky scheme that doesn't really seem viable".
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It would have been easy to give Buck the benefit of the doubt and chalk up the Valdespin situation to poor pie-throwing technique, but the Baxter incident puts that to rest.
The best three in town are easily the top three in New England, all offering the local "clam pizza" (a white pie - tomato-free, with mozzarella or ricotta cheese - plus local clams).
But when Romney feared that Rick Santorum might defeat him in Michigan's crucial Republican primary, he released a far more ambitious, and far more expensive, tax cut proposal that is being criticized as pie-in-the-sky.
In one such move, Dougie Imrie freed himself from full-back Steven Whittaker and cut the ball back for Flavio Paixao, who sent a curler from his Tweetie Pie-coloured boot to test cat-like McGregor in the Rangers goal.
The interest-based, mutual benefit, principled, pie-expanding, value-creating negotiation revolution permits women to have their cake (earn their true value) and eat it too (delivering equal value to their negotiation partner and therefore enhancing rather than harming the relationship).
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Unless the SEC and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority craft strong rules, Mr. Abshure said, a combination of fraud, high failure rates for startups and an "inevitable advertising onslaught of pie-in-the-sky offers" will kill investor confidence in buying shares online.
Most workplace problems, believers explain, stem from a clash of cognitive styles: when a visual manager sends a written memo to an "auditory" employee, for example, or when a pragmatic manager rejects as too pie-in-the-sky the contributions of a theoretical subordinate.
Later employment minister Tony McNulty told BBC 2's Daily Politics that any "tax cuts or adjustments there may be" would be "funded in a transparent fashion, albeit from borrowing" while the Conservatives' plans were "pie-in-the-sky on a hope and a prayer".
Dhoni handed the ball to Yuvraj Singh - a player described by Pietersen as a "pie-thrower" during England's tour to the sub-continent last winter - but he was carted all over the ground before being pulled out of the attack after just two overs.
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