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Default Mysteries of life (or perhaps shopping)

On 10/8/2014 12:46 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:25:23 -0500, Michel Boucher
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>>> This week, we bought Hebrew National hot dogs in a pack of 7.
>>> The whole wheat buns were in a package of 6. Being from
>>> different manufacturers, the bun bakeries could not possibly
>>> package buns in all the differing counts of hot dogs.

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>> They could. There aren't that many permutations. It's either 6, 7
>> or 12. That Hebrew National should make packages of 7 hotdogs
>> might appear random, but the number 7 is special to Jews because of
>> its association with YHWH.

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> How about when you have the hotdogs in an 8 or 10 pack? No reason for
> them to come out even anyway.
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As I said, hotdogs are usually in packages of six around here.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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