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Apr 1, 2014 · The first incidence of political pie-throwing occurred in 1970, when politics overshadowed everything. Nixon ruled, the Vietnam War dragged on, and the previous decade’s legacy of political assassinations carried over into a new decade of surliness and pugnacity.
Dec 31, 2022 · Decades later, the San Francisco-based Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB)—who described themselves as “flan-archists”—started throwing pies at people, becoming one of the most prominent and ...
Sep 11, 2015 · It appears in cartoons, TV shows, and movies dating back more than one hundred years. According to Hopes&Fears, the first known pie fight appeared in 1909’s Mr. Flip, in which an obnoxious...
Nov 20, 2017 · According to Pie Any Means Necessary, an activist handbook printed more than a decade ago, the record of political pieing dates back at least to Spain in the mid-1600s, when a band of bakers...
Sep 1, 2011 · Pie-throwing as a political gesture has its roots in the Groucho-Marxism of the 1960s student uprisings and, more specifically, in the prankish happenings of the Yippies. Tom Forçade, the founder of High Times magazine, is usually considered to have perpetrated the very first political pie crime in 1970.
The first political pie throwing was carried out in Bloomington, Indiana, October 14, 1969, when Jim Retherford, former underground newspaper editor and ghost writer of Jerry Rubin's Do It!, landed a cream pie in the face of former UC Berkeley president Clark Kerr. [197]
Jul 19, 2011 · Rupert Murdoch’s testimony before Parliament today was interrupted when a man—identified as activist and comedian Jonathan May-Bowles, aka “Jonnie Marbles” — walked up from the back of the...
