# Ordered a "special" pizza

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordered-a-special-pizza/967703 "2022-07-10T14:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ordered-a-special-pizza/967703/31 "2022-07-10T15:29:58Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> They shoulda just cut it square style. I bet no one would have even been counting.

> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> As @bobot mentioned: this is why the good Lord invented the “tavern cut.”

[NOOOOOOO!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbecue-styles/944974/24)

> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
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> If you cut from every point of the pentagram through every opposite vertex of the pentagon you get ten slices. You don’t have to draw the pentagram, you just have to visualize it.

And then you go completely insane from contemplating the insignificance of human existence in a universe populated by indomitable creatures from obtuse dimensions:  
[![](https://cdn.donmai.us/original/e7/14/ __cthulhu_cthulhu_mythos_drawn_by_hiyokemusi__ e71485160770b02869058ec9a4ac2e8e.jpg) ](https://cdn.donmai.us/original/e7/14/ __cthulhu_cthulhu_mythos_drawn_by_hiyokemusi__ e71485160770b02869058ec9a4ac2e8e.jpg)

Was it worth it? Was it really worth it to have a ten-slide pie?

Stranger

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