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Govende – a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia

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LadyHonoriaDedlock Tue 18-Oct-22 17:25:19

It's pronounced "Goo-vain". Allegedly.

It started about 25 years ago in a serious online forum about language and grammar when somebody asked seriously about the correct name of the @ symbol. The thread then continued to discuss the formal names of other symbols until it diverged from the original point:

>>>>>> What's a pilcrow?
>>>>> "¶" is a pilcrow. What's an octothorp?
>>>> "#" is an octothorp. What's a virgule?
>>> A virgule is an old musical instrument. What's a spinet
>>A spinet is a small grove of trees. What's a copse?

And so on. It's been going on in various parts of the net since being evicted from the original forum, and has spawned many new threads.

Answer a question imaginatively, ask a "What is" question connected to your answer.

Shall I start?

What's a knees-up?

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Squiffy Mon 21-Nov-22 14:46:38

is stone 🙄

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biglouis Mon 21-Nov-22 15:22:55

What your heart is made of when a boyfriend ghosts you.

What is ghost?

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Retread Mon 21-Nov-22 18:10:21

Ghost is the film that starred the fabulous actor and dancer, Patrick Swayze. He sadly died. What is sadly?

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MrsKen33 Mon 21-Nov-22 18:48:23

Sadly is when you get awkwardly onto a horse

What is a horse?

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Wheniwasyourage Mon 21-Nov-22 21:15:38

It's how you speak when your throat is sore.

What is a throat?

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Mollygo Mon 21-Nov-22 21:21:14

Throat is how you get a cricket ball to the batsman.
What is cricket?

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henetha Mon 21-Nov-22 21:37:09

Cricket is a very small crick in the back of your neck.
What is a neck?

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swampy1961 Mon 21-Nov-22 22:52:46

A neck is what you stick out when you think you're right.

What's right?

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biglouis Tue 22-Nov-22 03:26:18

Right is the opposite of left.

What is opposite?

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Retread Tue 22-Nov-22 07:38:15

Opposite is when you're a poser, not being real, and you put on an act. What is real?

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Wheniwasyourage Tue 22-Nov-22 12:38:42

A thing that fishermen attach to their rods to hold the fishing line.

What is a line?

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Mollygo Tue 22-Nov-22 12:49:15

It’s manipulated information that you’re fed to try and convince you that something is the truth.
What is truth?

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LadyHonoriaDedlock Tue 22-Nov-22 13:43:04

Truth is a strange form of fiction.

What is fiction?

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biglouis Tue 22-Nov-22 14:01:35

Fiction is what I wrote on my academic CV - at least some of it.

What is academic?

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Retread Tue 22-Nov-22 14:27:59

grin 👆

Too academic for me is what you say when you are bored to tears with academics trying to ego outdo each other. What is outdo?

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henetha Tue 22-Nov-22 14:29:42

Academic is a bit like epidemic but for posh clever people.
What is people?

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Mollygo Tue 22-Nov-22 15:14:06

Outdo is when you have a party in the garden.
People-I don’t know-I just remember that actress in Singing in the Rain saying, “I ain’t people!
So what is people ?

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MrsKen33 Wed 23-Nov-22 04:36:42

People are flowers a cross between a peony and a poppy. Very beautiful by all accounts.

What are accounts ?

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biglouis Wed 23-Nov-22 06:38:30

It means the hierarchy in foreign aristocracy. So you have A-counts, B-counts and so on.

What is foreign?

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Retread Wed 23-Nov-22 07:15:13

Foreign is when you pray fo' rain to come in a country wracked by drought. What is drought?

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Wheniwasyourage Wed 23-Nov-22 13:13:17

Drought is what you have when you are not sure, but even more not sure than usual, as in "I have some d-er-oubt about that".

What is sure?

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Glorianny Wed 23-Nov-22 16:58:55

sure is when someone tries to deny responsibility for something- as in "It's s-ure child that did it"
What is responsibility?

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biglouis Wed 23-Nov-22 22:03:34

Sibility means hissing at people so "RESponisbility" is hissing back.

What is hissing?

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swampy1961 Wed 23-Nov-22 22:22:35

Hissing Sid was a snake - wasn't he a mate of Captain Beaky?

What is beaky?

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Retread Thu 24-Nov-22 08:00:02

Beaky is a Peaky Blinders type who has a lot to say. What is say?

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