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#1: Donna McFarland (jade8114) on Jul 31, 2016

Nice image. Couldn't figure out what he was eating, but I knew it had to be hot.

Bufffalo soldier, dreadlock rasta?

Love these puzzles moot. Been a while!

I haven't been interested in making too many puzzles since the "great loss".

I wonder if we will ever recover all the lost puzzles.

Thanks for the puzzle, Brian!

Let's hope so!

good one brian :)

Aw, I'm sorry, Brian. It is hard to lose all that work that you and the others have done. I miss your puzzles, I hope you come back more often.

This is an excellent puzzle.

ditto Jota

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Wasn't familiar with these lyrics...had to look them up! Great puzzle, Brian! Thanks for making another Mondegreen.

Yes, I understand how upsetting it can be seeing a lot of your work disappear. I'm a glass half full person though, so how about looking at it this way. We still have Jan's site to be thankful for, we still have lots of old and new puzzles to work on, we still have the Webpbn family and that family misses your puzzles and input. I knew I had lost a few of my What do we have in common? puzzles so when I recently created a few more, I just started numbering them starting from the last one in My Puzzles list. I hope to see you back creating and enjoying the site soon! Hugs!

Thank you. I just miss my babies.

There was talk of PDFs of the missing puzzles. Does anyone know if they exist? I would start the process of solving them on paper then republishing them electronically.

I may have lost more than anyone. I'm not sure. However as upsetting as it is all I can do is hope that some day they can be recovered. In the meantime I just keep making puzzles and enjoying the images of others puzzles and the friendship we all share. This is a fun and happy place to be. Now if you'll all excuse me I'm gonna jump in our little pool and play with my girls. :)

Yes, Brian. Here's the site where the pdfs are: http://webpbn.com/t/ I looked through them and decided it would be an arduous task to find my own puzzles but then again I have created far fewer than you or Aldege. Good luck!

Omigosh! Is that the entire list? I don't remember which numbers fell into the gap.

WOW! There they are. Thank you Carol. What an amazing gift. I'll start tonight.

Kristen: #25206 was the last puzzle posted on Aug. 18, 2014, and 28019 was the first one posted May 23, 2016.

That narrows it down a little, but there's a lot of puzzles there on the pdf list in the gap. There are actually 2,271 "lost" puzzles there. No, I didn't count them, I just cut and pasted into a new Excel document that counted them for me. :-)

Brian, really fun puzzle. I'm so glad you are creating these for us again. Thank you!

I think I have to buy some ink and paper tomorrow. I've already found 10 of my old puzzles. As I recreate them, what should I call them?

re-created and the # then what you name it now.

Wow, this is going to be tedious. :)

I'm glad you are happy Brian!

What Carol said. I love solving your puzzles, Brian. You need to be able to do what all great artists need to learn to do: once it's finished, let it go!

I'm glad you haven't stopped!

I was wondering why I wasn't getting new comments... I had around 300 but have created few recently.

Most of the forums were wiped as well, sadly.

Let's recreate!!!

ditto Jota

This thread warms my heart. I'd assume that there was some sort of backup, or some mechanism to back things up to a PDF file, and it's cool to see there was an actual backup link for the fabled Great Database Crash of 2016.

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