Rules of the Order:
There are a few rules that the charity drive follows to keep things fun and non-threatening:- The Accuser Shalt NOT be Anonymous! All must be accountable for their actions.
- All Defendants shall be posessing of a sense of humor: Those who refuse or otherwise freak out shall be left alone.
- A defendant may only be tried but ONCE a year: Innocent or Guilty, those who have faced The Order are immune from further prosecution for the rest of the charity drive.
- All funds raised by the Order of Pi are entirely for charity: The Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island receives the majority of proceeds, while two dollars are donated to the Mustard Seed food bank for each pie ordered.
- The members of the Order of Pi will always conduct themselves in a respectful and humorous manner: No one shall be bullied, humiliated or hurt by their actions, lest the offending monk be permanently stripped of office and pied in the face forthwith!
Common Misconceptions About the Order
We pie people against their will
- Anyone slated for a pie in the face is first approached and given ample opportunity to express their aversion to a pie in the face. Nobody gets pied against their will: That would be assault.
We throw pies through the air
- We have never thrown a pie at anyone: The pie is firmly but gently placed into the face of the condemned.
We waste perfectly good food
- The dubious food value of synthetic cream pies aside, the Order of Pi does not encourage the throwing out of any used pies: We employ a pie catcher lined with a hygenic plastic bag to catch all falling pie during the execution, and this bag is given to the condemned to take home. Most people won't admit it, but they do eat the pie later when no one is looking.
We pie people for revenge
- All prospective orders placed during the annual charity drive are carefully screened to ensure that the Accuser is a friend of the person to be pied, that this person posesses the sense of humor necessary to be amused by the concept. We insist that the accuser provide us with charges so that we can ensure that the motive for the pieing is fun and not spite. Anonymous pieings and venomous or hurtful accusations are forbidden by the laws of the Order of Pi, and any order that breaks this criteria is not taken.
We play pranks at the expense of the public
- Ah... That would be UBC, not UVic. We've never figured out how to dismantle Volkswagons like they can. We just raise money for the children's hospital and a foundation for the physically and mentally challenged, and leave the high rise acrobatics to them.