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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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biglouis Tue 03-Jan-23 12:56:54

Cross posting.

Short is when you sell stocks to (hopefully) make money.

What are stocks?

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Retread Tue 03-Jan-23 14:40:53

Stocks are socks that catch and stick when you are trying to pull them on and your knees are stiff so you can’t reach to do it properly.

What is properly?

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MrsKen33 Wed 04-Jan-23 05:22:45

Your house and everything in it. Your car and some men think their wives.

What are wives ?

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biglouis Wed 04-Jan-23 14:19:16

Wives are biological machines for the production of offspring to one particular male.

What is male?

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Mollygo Wed 04-Jan-23 18:53:11

A suit which protects you from arrows and lances.
What’s an arrow?

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MrsKen33 Wed 04-Jan-23 19:11:05

A machine that rotovates soil.
What is soil?

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BlueBelle Wed 04-Jan-23 19:58:54

Soil is when your sore and ill
What is sore ?

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Squiffy Thu 05-Jan-23 00:06:08

Sore is what you use to slice big tree trunks into logs.

What is a slice?

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biglouis Thu 05-Jan-23 01:44:12

Slice are creatures that live on your head and make you scratch.

What is scratch?

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Retread Thu 05-Jan-23 04:43:30

Scratch is when you are unsure about whether to ratch up on your opinion in a debate.

What is a debate?

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nanna8 Thu 05-Jan-23 06:01:47

Debate is a very special fishing lure.

What is a lure ?

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nana5852 Thu 05-Jan-23 07:18:46

A lure is someone who spends ages in the toilet checking their appearance what is toilet?

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BlueBelle Thu 05-Jan-23 07:36:37

Ahh a toilet that is a place where kids go to find a toy and they are then let to play with it
What is play ?

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biglouis Thu 05-Jan-23 13:23:47

A "play date" is when modern parents dump their kids for organized enjoyment while they chill out.

What is a date?

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Juliet27 Thu 05-Jan-23 13:45:42

A date is best when stoned

What is stoned

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nana5852 Thu 05-Jan-23 14:52:30

S toned - the result of a grass based exercise regime. What is exercise?

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Wheniwasyourage Thu 05-Jan-23 14:55:59

An exercise is a bit of school homework.

What is school?

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henetha Thu 05-Jan-23 18:31:51

A school is what whales swim around in. They seem unable to learn to read or write though.

What is unable

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biglouis Fri 06-Jan-23 00:28:00

Abel was murdered by Cain and then punished by God and condemned to wander the earth.

What is punished?

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MrsKen33 Fri 06-Jan-23 00:29:38

Naughtiness is punished.

What is naughty?

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nanna8 Fri 06-Jan-23 03:40:37

Naughty describes a human being under one year old.

What is old ?

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BlueBelle Fri 06-Jan-23 06:22:05

Old is a universal word with an interchangeable first letter
What is interchangeable ?

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Juliet27 Fri 06-Jan-23 06:26:14

Old is a four letter word that no longer has a beginning

What is a letter

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Juliet27 Fri 06-Jan-23 06:36:44

sorry BlueBelle I took too long pondering without renewing

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Mollygo Fri 06-Jan-23 09:21:02

Inter-changeable is how to describe the different sorts of burials available.

What’s a burial?

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