This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
Roman, THC’s Chief Foxer Setter, is old enough to remember the days when there were Cheryls and Paulas in most classrooms, and highwaymen still plied their trade along the A3. He also recalls the time when all Friday Foxers were collage foxers.
(To complete the defox, identify the hidden theme and explain how each component relates to it)
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s hivefoxer theme: the international space station (defoxed by copperbottom)
apogee of fear (a_monk)
ared (a_monk)
cimon (a_monk)
crew dragon (Colonel_K, a_monk, copperbottom)
cygnus (Colonel_K)
dextre (a_monk)
irosa (Colonel_K)
orbital (a_monk)
pirs (a_monk)
pizza (Nutfield)
poisk (Colonel_K)
prichal (a_monk)
quest (copperbottom)
robonaut (copperbottom)
rubio (a_monk)
tranquility (Colonel_K)
tremor (Colonel_K)
unity (Colonel_K)
zarya (copperbottom)
zvezda (Colonel_K)
The performer’s legs are those Raquel Welch at a USO show in Vietnam, 1967
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/p1388o/raquel_welch_in_vietnam_1967_uso_tour/
Oh. Those legs.
The larger pair belong to Gary Cooper in High Noon (playing Marshal Will Kane)
Postcard top right looks to be from Skegness, unless it’s from Lincolnshire more generally.
Top left. Action figure of Maria from Metropolis, 1927?
Glow in the Dark version of the action figure by Super 7
https://super7.com/products/metropolis-reaction-figure-maria-monster-glow?variant=34767582855301
The stamp is a French commemorative stamp of Sarah Bernhardt from 1945.
https://www.avionstamps.com/shop/products/all/150892/france-1945-birth-centenary-of-sarah-bernhardt-%28actress%29-4f+1f-purple-brown-unmounted-mint-sg-950/
Death’s Head Hawk Moth (Mrs Nutfield)
The toy is a Rosie the Riveter action figure
Oval coin/medal thing: KITCHENERS TRAUM (Kitchener’s Dream) by Hans Lindl
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/16768
Kitchener and Bernhardt were both involved in the Ambulances in the Franco Prussian war.
Gary Cooper (A Farewell to Arms) and Raquel Welch (Mother, Jugs and Speed) were both in ambulance themed movies. I’ve got nothing for a death’s head moth, though.
The death’s head hawk moth and Raquel welch have both been painted by Salvador Dali.
Famous posters?
Kitchener: ‘Your country needs you!’
Rosie the Riveter: ‘we can do it!’
Raquel Welch: one million years BC film poster
Death’s head Hawkmoth: Silence of the lambs film poster
Skegness: ‘skegness is so bracing!’ (a.k.a. jolly fisherman) advertising poster
Sarah Bernhardt: many art nouveau posters
Gary Cooper: ?
Dude mid-left is Barack Obama = ‘Hope’ poster
Upper centre: Bruce the Shark being craned into Academy Museum of Motion Pictures = Jaws poster
https://abc7.com/jaws-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences-museum/8231799/
A poster of Gary Cooper in High Noon apparently swung the 1989 Polish election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon#/media/File:W_samo_poludnie_4_6_89-Tomasz_Sarnecki.jpg
Metropolis poster was most highly valued at one time: sold at auction for $690,000 in 2005.
Bottom left is Fiona Walker, of ‘tennis girl’ fame (Mrs copperbottom)