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Old Nov 27, 2007 | 11:54 PM
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Jigsaw puzzles

Anyone do one lately? I haven't even touched one in well over 15 years and a few weeks ago the wife and I decided to do one. So she goes out and gets one of the hardest ones I've ever done. We pretty much each did about 1/2 of it. She started on the right side and I started on the left and we met in the middle.


 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 12:01 AM
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wow, how long did that take? i havent done one in forever. kinda makes me wanna do one. they have any f150 jigsaws?
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 12:02 AM
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I'm assuming that it took a few weeks because of...............uh.......other things interrupting I'm sure the puzzle only took a little while to complete with the sweet skillz
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 12:07 AM
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Puzzling...









HA! OHHHH God I crack myself up.
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 12:41 AM
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When I was growing up, we spent the very long, boring, January days building puzzles. Me, my 3 sisters, mom and dad. Some would take a few days, some would take a week or so. The older we got the bigger and more difficult the puzzles got. We regularly built 5000 piece puzzles when us girls were all in high school. I haven't built a puzzle in about 5-6 years now. I kinda miss it...
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 12:46 AM
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my step-grandpearnets used to have a real big one every year round christmas. now that you mention it i kinda miss it.
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:22 AM
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I would estimate it took us 20 hours or so. We only worked on it 5 or 6 nights but that was over a three week period.

When I was a growing up our family did a lot of them. There was almost always one going on the back porch table. Then when I was in my late teens I had a good friend who's girlfriend was into them so whenever I would go over there to party we would work on whatever she had going. She did one that was called Hay In A Needle Stack. It took a long long time for us to finish that one. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140177777917



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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:32 AM
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Take a look at this 24k piece puzzle for only $270.

http://www.puzzlesusa.com/cgi-bin/item/116408
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:35 AM
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Dude... that's insane.
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:46 AM
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Take a look at this 24k piece puzzle for only $270.

http://www.puzzlesusa.com/cgi-bin/item/116408
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:49 AM
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puzzles huh? i've never been that bored to take them up after the age of 10.
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:21 AM
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She started on the right side and I started on the left and we met in the middle.
Usually how it works...
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:35 AM
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I was so bored I bought a puzzle online. I got this one....

Made of thousands of space photos 1026 Pieces
http://www.puzzlesusa.com/cgi-bin/ca...gi?item=101110
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:38 AM
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try one of the mosaics. I have a simpsons mosaic puzzle that is 1000 piece i believe, its super super hard b.c each piece is 1 or 2 small simpson scenes, so they dont easily mate up to the neighboring peices
 
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:56 AM
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try one of the mosaics. I have a simpsons mosaic puzzle that is 1000 piece i believe, its super super hard b.c each piece is 1 or 2 small simpson scenes, so they dont easily mate up to the neighboring peices
I'm guessing because it says "thousands" it has to come with at least two pictures per puzzle piece.
 
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