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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?

Retread Wed 05-Apr-23 16:41:50

In flating is when you take a deep breath and hold it in so you can float in deep water.

What is deep?

Caleo Wed 05-Apr-23 18:54:37

Deep as in thoughtful is okay but deep as in circuitous is not nice.

What does ' nice ' mean?

MrsKen33 Thu 06-Apr-23 05:01:22

Nice has several meanings. Halfway between awful and wonderful. A town in France or a good biscuit for dunking. Take your pick.

What is’pick’?

BlueBelle Thu 06-Apr-23 07:26:34

Pick is a smaller than normal picture, a little itty bitty one
What is smaller ?

Retread Thu 06-Apr-23 08:52:21

Smaller is the nickname of the youngest member of the Tallbone family.

What is a nickname?

biglouis Thu 06-Apr-23 11:01:20

Its about an individual called Nicholas who does not mind his name being abbraviated.

What is abbreviated?

Caleo Thu 06-Apr-23 11:12:40

Abbreviated makes me tired when it's a set of initial letters that I forget the meaning of.

What is it to forget?

swampy1961 Thu 06-Apr-23 21:16:41

It is to lose a train of thought - might be your shopping list or how to do something that you could do standing on your head.

What is standing?

Juliet27 Fri 07-Apr-23 07:21:56

He’s a campanologist known to friends as StanDing

What’s a campanologist

biglouis Fri 07-Apr-23 12:11:10

Someone who loves to camp out within the sound of church bells

What is a church?

Retread Fri 07-Apr-23 14:23:51

A church is when the late Sean Connery spoke about shoulders (soldiers) doing a search (church).

What are shoulders?

MrsKen33 Fri 07-Apr-23 17:21:00

They are quite hard places to cry on..

What is hard?

biglouis Sat 08-Apr-23 09:11:22

Something that men get when they are stimulated.

What is stimulated?

Retread Sat 08-Apr-23 19:48:41

Stimulated or "stimming" helps some people who have autism to cope better.

What is cope?

swampy1961 Sat 08-Apr-23 21:19:00

It's my pension!! Not as much as I deserve but then life was never fair was it?

What is deserve?

Squiffy Sat 08-Apr-23 23:01:03

De-serve is when a restaurant customer is rude to the waiting staff and the waiting staff remove the dishes that they have just served.

What is a restaurant?

MrsKen33 Sun 09-Apr-23 05:45:20

It is a form of restraint that haunts you forever.

What is forever?

Juliet27 Sun 09-Apr-23 07:50:12

It’s often an idle promise to achieve a target

What is achieve

Retread Sun 09-Apr-23 08:40:43

Achieve is the noise you make when you have a very tight sneeze.

What is tight?

biglouis Sun 09-Apr-23 13:18:10

Tight is a polite name for when you have had a little too much to drink.

What is polite?

Squiffy Sun 09-Apr-23 23:06:52

Polite is a parrot who doesn’t weigh very much.

What is weigh?

Caleo Mon 10-Apr-23 10:56:51

Weigh is one of the English spellings that make little phonetic sense unless you are familiar with (I suspect) Anglo Saxon.

What is spelling?

biglouis Mon 10-Apr-23 13:13:28

Correct spelling is something which pedants feel is very important.

What are pedants?

BlueBelle Mon 10-Apr-23 13:33:15

A Pendant is something that hangs round your neck you can have two, or three even if you want and they can match earrings too whats a neck ?

swampy1961 Mon 10-Apr-23 18:14:03

It's that bit of the human anatomy that attaches your head to the rest of your body.

What is anatomy?

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