Who won? From the picture it looks like Ben got the worst of it, which seems odd for a referee.

Keep their dignity? Keep?

(I still say this means Ben gets the not-a-Hugo.)

Keep in mind that what was originally proposed was “silly” string. The pies were quite serious and dignified.

I mean, allowing for the fact that we’re talking about paper plates filled with whipped cream, they were quite serious and dignified.

It was a beautiful thing, I have to say. You and Elizabeth pied Ben as if you'd rehearsed it, and he reacted as if he hadn't planned it (which he did).

Good luck to you in Glasgow, BTW. I can't remember if I wished you that or not.

*g* Well, David and I weren't aware that Ben had planned on being pied. The information *I* was given was that David and I were to pie one another.

Let this be a lesson to Ben! If we'd known he intended us to pie him, perhaps we would have pied each other.

*goes briefly to a Manley Hopkins kind of place*

Viva la Revolucion!

Kind of scary how being pied in the face has ripped away the mask of normality over Ben's eyes, and revealed the deep, dark ruby glow of his eldrich energy source.

*Planned* might be a bit of an overstatement... I recall *suggesting* it to Dave Schwartz in a moment of levity...