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Author Message Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5125 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Friday, July 20, 2012 - 4:42 pm:        Ingenuity and straw enabled their privacy. (Apologies to Balin!} Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 17305 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 2:29 pm:        Straw = hay? Drinking straw? "Their" = 2? 3? 4? More? 10s? 100s? Their = H? A? M? I'm going to Ireland for 3 weeks in January, so maybe I should be boning up on my folksongs... Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5134 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 6:24 pm:        Straw = hay? This. Drinking straw? "Their" = 2? 3? 4? More? 10s? 100s? Assume 4-6. Their = H? Yes. A? Assume late teens. M? No. Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3209 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 8:31 pm:        Scotland relevant? is it a Scottish folk song? did they make something with the straw? a hut? a mat? a curtain? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5136 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 11:03 pm:        Scotland relevant? No. is it a Scottish folk song? Yes. did they make something with the straw? Yes. a hut? a mat? a curtain? None of these. Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 17315 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 11:55 pm:        Is drinking relevant? Does someone die? Nearly die? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5137 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 12:04 am:        Is drinking relevant? No. Does someone die? No. Nearly die? No. Biograd (Biograd) New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 2092 Registered: 6-2008 Posted on Monday, July 23, 2012 - 7:38 am:        Privacy from themselves being seen? from a possession of "them" being seen? from a communication between/among "them" being overheard? Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3222 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Monday, July 23, 2012 - 3:15 pm:        a roof? a screen? a fence? a wall? a blind? a hide? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5141 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Monday, July 23, 2012 - 6:58 pm:        Privacy from themselves being seen? Yesish. from a possession of "them" being seen? No. from a communication between/among "them" being overheard? Yesish. a roof? a screen? a fence? a wall? a blind? a hide? None of these. Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3224 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 11:37 pm:        were they being spied upon? filmed? bugged? papped? were they famous? hmm - did they make themselves grass skirts? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5147 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 5:07 am:        were they being spied upon? Sort of. filmed? No. bugged? No. papped? No. were they famous? No. hmm - did they make themselves grass skirts? No. Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3228 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2012 - 7:44 pm:        privacy from people? children? animals? statues? toys? machines? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5148 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2012 - 7:48 pm:        privacy from people? This. children? animals? statues? toys? machines? Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3232 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 - 7:02 pm:        did they set fire to the straw? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5149 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 7:48 am:        did they set fire to the straw? No. Redwine (Redwine) New member Username: Redwine Post Number: 1551 Registered: 1-2011 Posted on Wednesday, August 01, 2012 - 12:36 pm:        Were they man and woman? More people? Were they seeking privacy because of being in danger? Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3235 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Thursday, August 02, 2012 - 10:48 pm:        did they make a raft? another kind of vehicle? Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo) New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 5150 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 7:43 pm:        Were they man and woman? More people? Several women. Were they seeking privacy because of being in danger? No. did they make a raft? another kind of vehicle? No. Beachbum (Beachbum) New member Username: Beachbum Post Number: 305 Registered: 2-2012 Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 - 10:21 pm:        Having sex relevant? Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3274 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2012 - 10:06 am:        were they naked? getting changed? performing some sort of ritual? doing something unusual? privacy from men? women? Beachbum (Beachbum) New member Username: Beachbum Post Number: 337 Registered: 2-2012 Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2012 - 6:24 pm:        Where they building something? Did they burn the straw? Was the straw hiding them because they were burning it? Was the straw in some way a decoy in the sense that it was not physically hiding them, but was serving as a decoy? Beachbum (Beachbum) New member Username: Beachbum Post Number: 338 Registered: 2-2012 Posted on Monday, August 27, 2012 - 5:04 am:        Were they pretending to be farmers? Or some other occupation that that uses straw? Did they actually not ordinarily use straw in real life? Shez (Shez) New member Username: Shez Post Number: 3300 Registered: 2-2011 Posted on Sunday, September 02, 2012 - 12:37 pm:        excellent suggestion, Beachbum! did they burn the straw to create a smoke screen? Alhucema (Alhucema) New member Username: Alhucema Post Number: 2451 Registered: 11-2008 Posted on Monday, October 08, 2012 - 10:57 pm:        Is it relevant what kind of straw it was? The amount? Was the straw somehow heaped, like in a haystack? Were they hiding in it? Behind it? Peter365 (Peter365) Moderator Username: Peter365 Post Number: 137 Registered: 1-2011 Posted on Friday, November 23, 2012 - 10:57 am:        Jenburdoo I've put this puzzle into Limbo for now. You can reactivate it by answering the outstanding questions