It's not enough that these silly 60's PuzzNiks jigsaws come with over 125 pulse-pounding pieces, they also included a "surprise witticism" that you would only discover AFTER it was completely assembled! In this case it's, "When I ask your opinion, I'll tell you what to say." Hmmmm, pretty "witty." A quick online search (mostly eBay) tells me there were quite a few of these puzzles produced by Warren Paper Product Company's Built Rite division located in lovely Lafayette, Indiana, and each featured a colorfully different looking vaudevillian-esque character bordering on kooky court jester or hobo clown. I wonder if the other puzzles also had a tiny, weirdly cut area that contains no actual puzzle piece?!! (see last scan close-up)
Well, surprise witticism or not, that's pretty much the motto of today's so called free media.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'm taking any witticism from somebody with that fashion sense!
ReplyDeleteSays the guy who posted a picture of himself playing guitar while wrapped in a strand of xmas lights!
ReplyDeleteThat random puzzle hole is just weird as hell. Entirely intentional and yet totally unnecessary. I don't even know how they could create a die cut that would have this effect. Or why.
ReplyDeleteCurrently, we're working on a four-thousand-piece jigsaw that takes up the whole dining room. I even had to dig up the extra leaves, make the table as big as possible. The pile of pieces has run to the sideboard, the pass-over bar, the cutting board. We're three fourths of the way though the puzzle now, I guess; we've been working on the thing since the beginning of October. It was a nice distraction, to while away our quarantine--but who knew it could have outlasted four quarantines (and counting)? That's an awful long time to look at one waterfall.
Yikes, 4000 pieces!! REALLY??? I about wanna kill myself working on a 200 piecer... I can't even imagine a 1000 piece. You are a real hero, haha
ReplyDeleteHa ha, yeah. I don't really flinch too bad at a thousand pieces, anymore. Since we, ah, work for the US Government, we started in on difficult puzzles in 2016 so as to stave-off despondency. The hobby (habit?) has grown from there. It works like a charm, though! Turns the brain right off between terrible headlines and quiets the nerves during the attrition of all I hold dear.
ReplyDeleteBut four thousand pieces is too much. Way too much.