Well, it was a unique stamp, SR. I guess that makes some sense.
Was a body cavity search administered?
OK, something’s amiss here.
The stamp wasn’t hidden outside while room was being searched, and it wasn’t in the room while it was being searched.
So the stamp was outside the room, but wasn’t hidden?
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Enright3
Wow, all of 39 minutes for the mystery to be solved. Pretty cool, and I know I was entertained answering the questions. I have another. Would you like me to enter it?
Swimming Riddles, whatdaya mean “no fair”? You only asked if he ate the stamp. Not if he burned it up in the fire place or just destroyed it in general. 
I think the answer was supposed to be that the stamp was destroyed… so in a way it was neither outside the room nor hidden inside the room… sort of a fine line, I guess.
Can I call foul on this one?
Among other things, wouldn’t he technically have been arrested for selling a counterfeit stamp?
If I can’t call foul, I at least want to whine and bitch and moan a little bit.
Thank you, I feel better now.
Good Job Finagle.
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Enright3
Wow- I had thought that Finagle was joking.
I agree with Enright3- I feel so…unfulfilled.
I kind of liked this one. In (unofficial) answer to Enright’s question, I think the deal is, the counterfeit is so good, only we, the audience, know it’s counterfeit. After all, it is unique, so only a few people are going to be really familiar with it. The original may have a fuzzy memory, or just not have seen the evidence in the arrest. Everybody else is mystified.
Here’s one I made up, not a traditional mystery as such, but I like it. Other people are mostly annoyed by it, so proceed with caution:
Three people are above a sandy area strewn with coal. They are increasingly excited.
Why are they excited? Where are they?
Dagnabbit, I meant to say maybe the original OWNER has a fuzzy memory.
Are the pieces of coal bigger than a fist? bigger than a marble? bigger than a pinhead?
Are the three people playing a game of some sort? Are they betting on anything? Do they stand to make a profit? Does the coal belong to them?
Are any other people involved?
Does it matter where the coal came from? Are snowmen or Christmas stockings involved?
Is the sandy area man-made? Is it a beach? a playing field? an arena?
“I can’t think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one’s grammar.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers
The three people just fell down the shaft of an abandoned coal mine and are about to hit the sandy, coal-strewn floor of the shaft, 100 feet below. They are increasingly excited, but won’t be for long.
How’s that for morbid.
Are they fire-walking?
Answers for Fretful Porpentine:
Are the pieces of coal bigger than a fist?
I think so.
bigger than a marble? bigger than a pinhead?
Yes.
Are the three people playing a game of some sort? Are they betting on anything? Do they stand to make a profit? Does the coal belong to them?
No.
Are any other people involved?
Not directly. No one else is present.
Does it matter where the coal came from?
Yes.
Are snowmen or Christmas stockings involved?
No.
Is the sandy area man-made? Is it a beach? a playing field? an arena?
None of the above.
Good questions.
cher and Drain Bead:
No, but I like your guesses.
phouka, boooooooo!
By the way, Drain Bead’s guess made me wonder if I made it clear … they are above the sandy area, but they aren’t touching it.
Am I reading Hippocrates right?
He’s not just a big box for storing large semi-aquatic mammals, is he?
Was the coal spilled from something? Would you expect to find coal in this habitat? Is the number of people significant in any way? Are they excited because of the coal?
Is the sandy area terrestial?
The lumps of coal haven’t been in Camrons ass for a week, have they? (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ref for the out of touch. )
The coal isn’t post-processed into diamonds in other words?
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
Are they about to land on the moon?
“His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad,
His hair is as dark as a blackboard,
I wish he was mine, he’s really divine,
The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.”