Every Friday at 1300 hours, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. All are welcome to participate.
Below is a list of ‘30 Things Wot You Might Find In, On, Under, Or Over A Bed’ (‘things’ is used in its broadest possible sense). Entries have been stripped of vowels and numbers and have had any inter-word spaces repositioned. For example, if mosquito net was present it might appear as MS QTNT. Duvet would be DVT.
1. TSTR
2. NSMNC
3. MM RYFM
4. PT NTHST
5. STRNGBDF LLW
6. M GCBDKNB
7. YTNP
8. JH NNDY K
9. PL LWTLK
10. MS HQLT
11. CTSNTR RPTS
12. CMXHM PTRS
13. BNNLLSP RNG
14. DT CHWF
15. BLT THPL LWSPKR
16. GRHMBTT RFLD
17. D TCHVN
18. CH MBRPT
19. SHPC NTR
20. HS PTLCRNR
21. CHR LBCKTSGRNDP RNTS
22. SLPPRLY SS
23. RTHQ KSHLTR
24. VLNC
25. FLSC TS
26. GS TFPRC RSTS
27. NT RSS FTNRS
28. MT TRSSBT TNTFTR
29. T RCKLBD
30. R LX TNFT HV LNDS FTP LT
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SOLUTIONS
a1. Horse, Pipe and Red Flower (Phlebas)
a2. The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (Colonel_K)
a3. A Welcome (Aergistal)
a4. The Drummer of His Majesty’s First Life Guard (Colonel_K)
a5. The Circus (Nutfield and Mrs Nutfield)
a6. St George and the Dragon (Nutfield)
b1. The Dream (Aergistal)
b2. The Surrender of Breda or The Lances (Nutfield)
b3. Racecourse at Epsom (Colonel_K)
b4. A Lion Attacking a horse (Nutfield)
b5. Charge of the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo (Nutfield)
b6. Le Marchand de bestiaux (Colonel_K)
c1. Circus Matinee (Phlebas)
c2. The Leaping Horse (Aergistal)
c3. The Last Absolution of the Munster Fusiliers at Rue de Bois (Aergistal)
c4. The Blank Signature (Nutfield)
c5. A Portrait Group (Colonel_K)
c6. Vercingetorix surrendering to Caesar, 1892 (a_monk)
d1. Remnants of an Army (a_monk)
d2. Leonora Carrington (Mrs Nutfield)
d3. Charles I (Nutfield, Aergistal)
d4. The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (a_monk)
d5. Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (a_monk)
d6. Riders on the Beach (Phlebas)
e1. Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805 (a_monk)
e2. The Resurrection of the Soldiers (Phlebas)
e3. The Red Tower (Phlebas)
e4. Smoke Signals (Colonel_K)
e5. Horse attacked by a Jaguar (Nutfield)
e6. Seeing Off a Recruit (Colonel_K)
3 – MEMORY FOAM
5 – STRANGE BEDFELLOW
9 – PILLOW TALK
20 – HOSPITAL CORNER
21 – CHARLIE BUCKET’S GRANDPARENTS
17 – DUTCH OVEN (ewwww)
18 – CHAMBER POT (also ewww)
14.DUTCH WIFE
23 – EARTHQUAKE SHELTER
24 – VALANCE
16 – GRAHAM BUTTERFIELD – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7519564.stm
28. MATTRESS BUTTON TUFTER
29. TRUCKLE BED
15 – BLUETOOTH PILLOW SPEAKER
10 – MESH QUILT
13 – BONNELL SPRING
13, BONNELL SPRING
6 – MAGIC BEDKNOB
8 – JOHN AND YOKO
8. JOHN AND YOKO (Not YAK as i first thought)
2. INSOMNIAC
ETA: 4. PATIENT HOIST
26. GUEST OF PROCRUSTES (err… no thanks)
1. TESTER – apparently the upper part of a four-poster bed
(I’m sure Taster, Toaster and Teastore would’ve been equally valid)
I thought 30. might start ‘Relaxation of the’ and so typed it into Wikipedia’s search box…
Not the sort of answer I was expecting. And incorrect to boot.
I got as far as that part… Trying to think of a Valend soft pelt :p…
UVULA AND SOFT PALATE, I think, which is not necessarily more pleasant than whatever Google suggested to you!
ETA: Oh, Wikipedia, I see. Google offered me the heart and the urinary sphincter!
22. SLEEP PARALYSIS
ETA: 19. SHEEP COUNTER ?
25. FELIS CATUS
Remaining (e&oe):
7. YTNP – … NAP ?
11. CTSNTR RPTS
12. CMXHM PTRS
27. NT RSS FTNRS – … … nurse?
12. CIMEX HEMIPTERUS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug
27. NATURE’S SOFT NURSE
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300226-o-sleep-o-gentle-sleep-nature-s-soft-nurse-how-have
11. COITUS INTERRUPTUS? (Hmm)
Re: 7.
If you can catnap or Power nap, I don’t see why you shouldn’t Yeti-nap.
Anyway, YUTANPO – japanese plastic hot water bottle