Thread:Venera651/@comment-32487879-20170503204220/@comment-26234016-20170507230929

The reason the joke is funny is the perfect selection of the letter E. It couldn't be a A-shaped pie, because A is functioning as both article and noun; who needs it? It can't be a B-shaped pie because of the confusion of the letter B with the insect. And not a C-shaped pie either, because that Customer never would have known that it was a capital C pie, since C looks the same in both upper case and lower case pie. (Thinks.) I'll come back to D. An F-shaped pie is just plain not funny. An H-shaped pie would be unstable: two vertical bars supported by a weaker crossing structure. An I-shaped pie is not good because of the dot problem: do you connect the dot to the pie, in which case it's not really an i; or do you keep it separate, which raises the question, is it a dot or is it a cupcake?