Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in being awed by Phyllis’s casual innovation of the 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle genre, a popular form of entertainment that has remained unchanged forever.
In working her puzzle, a gift from her daughter Gina, Phyllis used much of a kitchen counter to join the puzzle pieces together and had reached an estimated 700-word progression level when she very cleverly used the coffeemaker to leak fluid onto a cluster of the puzzle’s yet-to-be-used pieces causing them to delaminate so that each single piece then became three pieces.
In what can only be deemed a stroke of genius, Phyllis allowed the coffee-soaked pieces to dry and then swept them into a plastic bag to become what the puzzle industry will obviously market as the first innovative advancement in decades in a most popular hobby: expect future puzzles to include a bag of unlaminated pieces, to be promoted to “advanced” jigsaw devotees.
The keeper insisted on photo documentation of Phyllis’s genius and suggested immediate patent application. It is “pending.”
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