I was impressed to read the Oxford English Dictionary attribute the phrase Shut you pie hole,’ to Stephen King. The OED says, ‘The earliest known use of the noun pie hole is from 1983, in the writing of Stephen King, novelist,’ in his novel Christine. Looking into this subject further, however, (going down the pie hole, as it were) I learned that a character in Sally Field’s 1979 movie Norma Rae, written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, tells her, ‘Norma, shut your cake hole!’ So I’m less impressed with Stephen King and the OED. They should shut their pie hole.
And where’s my umbrella?
This leads to jokes about shoeshorns. As in, ‘I’ll beat you so bad you’ll need a shoehorn to put on your hat.’ And,
The Contrary Man. A contrary mortal was Anthony Slaughter – He washed in the towel, and wiped in the water, And put both his legs through his shirt to get in it, And forced off the buttons on purpose to pin it. He put on his hat with a shoehorn discreetly, Employing a bootjack to take it off neatly; Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle (1898), 3 September