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Today's word, KATZENJAMMER," may appear in "The Voyage of the Beagle" and "Sailing Alone Around the World." Both Darwin and Slocum describe the constant shouts of the menacing Patagonian natives, demanding gifts: "YAMMER SCHOONER, YAMMER SCHOONER." Another nautical association may be "Windjammer," a tall ship which carrying sails numerous and strong enough to go fast, VERY fast, in boisterous winds. Any other takes on "Yammer schooner?"
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'by and large'. No, not really. But I would find it jammer (Du. regretful) not to take the chance of giving an image of that wonder type of sailing ship 'windjammer'  -------------- Happy sails
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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...... an image of that wonder type of sailing ship 'windjammer'
WOW....I count 19 sails. Imagine pulling them up by hand!
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I'd love to sail on one. What a thrill.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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So they had many 'all hands on deck'. I had a jiggsaw puzzle of such a ship and made him just once. 
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Such patience you must have.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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As you can see from my unsmily I would rather call it stubbornness.
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Refused to be defeated, eh? Good for you!
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I love puzzles. My idea of happiness. The only worry is wondering whether all the pieces are there. Nothing as devasting as looking at a "completed" puzzle with pieces missing: there are these holes, but no pieces left to fill the holes! Awful!
ETA: it's best to work on an out-of-the-box puzzle.
Last edited by Avy; 12/23/2010 11:15 AM.
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Now that you tell this I dare confess that I used to love jiggsaws puzzles a lot. And doing them was not a matter of patience but sort of a meditation. If you lived nearby I could give you my collection. The Chambord Palace. The Forum Romanum. Parks and gardens. Neuschwannstein. The cliffs of Dover.  But all those windjammmer sails that were so very much alike were a real trial. I never made one since. ( I agree, one piece missing means it cannot be used any more) 
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The way I put things back together, there's more likely going to be pieces left over after I complete the puzzle. I once took a clock apart and put it back together. There were enough pieces left over to make a whole nother clock.
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I live faa faa roway in India. [Sob]
Fal-s - you'll make a good doctor. Heh!
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That has happened with me, and taking the puzzle back to
the merchant is a waste of time, because I am not in the
frame of mind to re-do it.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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