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Why hot dogs come in tensand hot dog buns come in packages of eight.

posted 18 years ago by Maxvdm
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To have enough buns to go with you're sausages, you will need to buy 40 of each. That is 4 hotdog packages and 5 hotdog bun packages.

This, obviously over a period of time, will ensure that people will often have an inbalanced and will be pressured to buy more.

It's a subtle effect, but then again, most marketing is equally subtle.

A cheap money making ploy, dressed up in the guise of something deep and spiritual.

I think that sums up this movie perfectly.

Which is a shame, because I like Chow Yun Fat and that other guy with the forgettable name.

It's unfortunate that they messed up near everything they possibly could have.

[–] dbre 10 years ago

I think it is a message that 25% of the world are so selfish that they have to have two hot dogs in their buns. Thus the extra two dogs are there to compensate for the selfish of the world without causing others to have to suffer.

That lesson on selfishness is very fitting if you ask me

And here is another one. There is no answer. What answer you come up with is not the correct one but it reveals how you look at the world. Therefore, there can be many possible answers to the question