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Govende – a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 2

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biglouis Sat 21-Jan-23 10:28:16

(BROOUGHT FORWARD FROM LAST GAME)

What is wisdom?

A type of document used by wizards to help cast their spells.

What are documents?

TillyTrotter Wed 22-Feb-23 07:45:37

Chemotherapy is a therapy for Mother and could be the key (che) to being ‘appy.

What is key?

Caleo Wed 22-Feb-23 11:58:39

Chemotherapy at one time meant antibiotics to cure bacterial infections whereas now it seems to refer to chemical treatment for cancer.

What is cancer?

Caleo Wed 22-Feb-23 12:00:16

Sorry I seem to have posted out of synch for the third time. What am I doing wrong?

Juliet27 Wed 22-Feb-23 12:24:20

Caleb -If I’ve spent quite a while with my response, I usually copy it and click on ‘last’ to see if I’ve been beaten to it before pasting.

TillyTrotter Wed 22-Feb-23 17:24:42

don’t worry Caleo , keep posting 🙂

TillyTrotter Wed 22-Feb-23 17:25:29

What is cancer?

Cancer is a sign of the zodiac represented by a crab.

What is a crab?

Juliet27 Wed 22-Feb-23 20:31:57

But I should check my spellings before I post!! 🙄

Retread Wed 22-Feb-23 20:35:18

Crab is an anagram of the first name and initial of the Scottish actor, Rab C. Nesbitt, who is very funny.

What is funny?

Juliet27 Thu 23-Feb-23 07:19:04

A funny can tickle someone’s fancy

What is a fancy

Squiffy Thu 23-Feb-23 17:26:04

A fancy is the response to someone asking, "What is this thing?" It's a fan see.

What is a response?

Retread Thu 23-Feb-23 20:47:13

A response is when you've sponged your grandson down in the shower, only to discover that when you turned your back he got hold of the bath crayons and drew on his tummy, so you have to re-sponse him.

What is a crayon?

henetha Fri 24-Feb-23 10:08:03

A crayon is actually a canyon, like the Grand Canyon, written about by someone who can't spell.

What is Grand

biglouis Fri 24-Feb-23 11:34:45

Grand is someone who can spend a thousand pounds on a bottle of wine for dinner.

What is wine?

Caleo Fri 24-Feb-23 13:20:24

Wine is beaded bubbles winking at the brim and purple stained mouth

Keats wrote it. Who was he?

NanKate Fri 24-Feb-23 14:46:53

Keats wrote ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’

Who or what was Eve ?

Retread Fri 24-Feb-23 16:56:50

Eve was the partner of Adam and they lived in paradise, before she ate a bad apple.

What is paradise?

BlueBelle Fri 24-Feb-23 17:09:15

Ah now para dies is when a parachutist dices with death
What is death ?

Squiffy Fri 24-Feb-23 19:41:24

Death is when you have so much wax in your ears that you can’t hear and go death.

What is wax?

Caleo Fri 24-Feb-23 19:43:29

Wax is antonym of wane

What is wane?

Retread Fri 24-Feb-23 19:50:17

Wane plays really good football. He also upsets his wife from time to time.

What is upset?

NanKate Fri 24-Feb-23 22:16:28

An upset is a childish way of describing an upper set of dentures.

What’s an upper ?

biglouis Sat 25-Feb-23 09:00:39

Someone who considers themselves to be from a social class above the common people.

What is common?

Caleo Sat 25-Feb-23 10:21:30

There is not much common land left in Britain .Most of the land is in private ownership and common land has been bought up by developers.

What is Britain?

henetha Sat 25-Feb-23 10:24:14

Britain is great, although not everyone agrees these days, sadly.

What is sadly?

Retread Sat 25-Feb-23 11:43:21

Sadly is when you're riding a horse and the saddle is too loose, and slips to one side.

What is loose?

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