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** In the novel ''Waiting for Godalming'' by Robert Rankin, Lazlo points out that if they make this offer they are going to find you rather than give you a free pizza. He experimented with this fact by hiding in his house, leading the pizza deliverers to abseil down to his window.
** Lazlo also uses this knowledge to escape from a secret underground base, by ordering pizza, relying on them delivering in under thirty minutes, then paying extra to get a lift out. Taking this to illogical extremes, oh yes.
* ''[[Snow Crash]]'' begins with a [[Mundane Made Awesome|suspenseful, high-speed version from the pizza guy's point of view]]. The pizza company is run by [[The Mafia]], and their guarantee is that if the pizza is late, the customer (who is in a different country due to the way the US developed in the wake of the federal governments' collapse) will get it for free, ''and'' Uncle Enzo himself will drop whatever he's doing to come and apologize immediately, in person. The book never says what, exactly, would happen to the delivery boy, but given that Uncle Enzo is the head of the east coast Mafia and that he would have had to interrupt whatever he was doing to apologize to some schlub in the middle of nowhere, no-one really wants to find out. The Uncle Enzo guarantee only covers the time the pizza arrives in. Not the shape. Since part of the "apology" includes, among other things, a vacation in Italy it's implied that a lot of people just order pizzas as a form of gambling.
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