It's not a funny or clever story but...
...back in about 2004 I started a beast of a jigsaw puzzle. 1500 pieces of lingering hatred and horror. The puzzle is a picture of a big pile of dice. Innocent enough little black and white cubes, except they all look exactly the same. There's no way to distinguish part of 1 dice from part of any of the other million little fuckers.

6 years later I've done the outside through trial and error, and about 8 pieces in the bottom left corner, while the living room dining table is still out of bounds.
(Aatxe, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 14:44, 5 replies)

Finish it!
Then you can have your photograph in The Sun with you looking glum next to your long suffering wife because there was just one piece missing.

It would help if your name is Reg, too.
(Spaff_Quaffer Wise fwom your gwave., Tue 29 Jun 2010, 14:57, closed)

Throw the damn thing away and move on (and enjoy the use of your table again)
I hate jigsaws, they remind me of shit christmas presents. Almost as bad as board games.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 15:20, closed)

oh come on
Escape from Colditz is a classic! unless you're the Germans and then it's pretty boring
(Moominator missing the good stuff cos' the swear filter is on, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 19:26, closed)

"while the living room dining table is still out of bounds"
If I was sharing a house with you, I think I would have probably put the jigsaw in a bin and torched it by now.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 12:32, closed)

my mate bought me jigsaws for my birthday
in the form of 12 cat pictures with calendar bits attached, the idea being that you do the jigsaws, then have lovely catty jigsaw calendars for every month.
i'm not fond of cats.
i fucking hate jigsaws.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 20:56, closed)