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

A horse's height is measured in hands and a hand is four inches.

What is a horse?

Sorry . I got lost again. Over to you, Biglouis.

A horse has a leg at each corner and instead of reins has two hoops on its back. Gymnasts do clever and exhausting manoeuvres by swinging their legs in the air and do scissor movements.

What is scissor?

[ Caleo no need to apologise, we can just go with the flow ]

A scissor is one member of a band called The Scissor Sisters.

What is a member?

Retread 😲 🤣

It’s a frustrating problem until ‘re’ is added

What is a problem?

A problem is an unfortunate situation which needs to be dealt with, usually when you are tired and frustrated.

What is unfortunate?

Unfortunate pertains to chance events that someone doesn't like.

Ought I to have said "someone" or " somebody" ?

Doodle there really is a band called The Scissor Sisters 😂

Someone is somebody who sees someone else giving them the eye.

What is an eye?

The eye is something the bloke who was standing on the corner, gave to the girls he was watching go by.

What’s a bloke?

I think a bloke is a likeable man.

What is a man?

Shakespears said "What a piece of work is a man" and compared him to an angel. Angels can be both good and evil.

What is an angel?

It's a motorcyclist usually known as Hell's Angels!

What's motorcyclist?

A motorcyclist is (are) the 100s of people who load their cycles on the back of their motors, pour themselves into their lycra shorts, and head off to a cycling spot.

What is a short?

A short is an alcoholic beverage, often used as a chaser after a beer.

What is a chaser?

A chaser is someone who appears on a certain TV quiz.

What is certain?

Certain is when you sure that you like the fabric you have chosen for your window coverings.

What is a fabric?

(... are sure etc...)

What is a fabric?

Fabric in a building means the structure as in decay and neglect is eating away at it.

What is decay?

Generalised decay is entropy I think but decay usually happens in a conversation about teeth with dental caries.

What is a conversation

It’s a current fad for wearing a certain make of footwear

What is footwear

When your shoes are so old they have no sole so you walk on bare feet.

What is a sole?

A sole is when Mario Lanza (now there's a blast from the past!) sings O Sole Mio and then Elvis (no surname needed) sang an English version called It's Now or Never.

What is never?

Never Never Land is the name of a mythical country where dreams come true and which we would all like to visit.

What is mythical?

Can't define 'mythical' as the word has two related meanings . One of the meanings bothers me as myths actually are serious stories.

What is a serious story?