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The Japanese X-Box campaign that focuses on delivering X-Box style pizza boxes has several problems. First, the actual X-Box is larger than a pizza box; someone might get on them for false advertising. There is a new zen koan here: "There is a shelf of poor construction in the used game shop, and an X-Box of infinite weight; how does the shelf remain standing?" Second issue: "The pizza will be split into four parts from the middle to mark an “X” on the pie. Customers can chose different preset topping combinations on each of the four separated pieces (including the interesting-sounding but very common egg and tuna or chicken teriyaki and mayonnaise combos; relatively normal toppings on pizzas in Japan)."

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