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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?

Caleo Fri 10-Mar-23 17:54:51

A name is a label which is okay by me as long as its not so derogatory as to abuse me.

What is abuse?

Retread Fri 10-Mar-23 15:46:04

You know, it is um, the, Roger, Tory (de-roga-tory). Whatever his name might be.

What is a name?

LadyHonoriaDedlock Fri 10-Mar-23 15:13:11

Homo is a derogatory term for a gay man.

What is derogatory

Caleo Fri 10-Mar-23 11:21:23

Humanity is homo sapiens.

What is homo?

biglouis Fri 10-Mar-23 09:45:04

Woman is the one half of humanity who is unfairly condemned to bear the children of all humanity.

What is humanity?

Mollygo Thu 09-Mar-23 19:47:25

Inform is the woman who runs aqua fit.

What is woman?

MrsKen33 Thu 09-Mar-23 19:06:24

Shop is when you inform the police of someone’s wrong doing.

What is inform ?

Doodle Thu 09-Mar-23 18:42:19

Primates are a group of people who shop at Primark.

What is shop?

biglouis Thu 09-Mar-23 15:55:10

Guerrilla is a type of war fought by gorillas and other large hairy primates.

What are primates?

NanKate Thu 09-Mar-23 14:47:20

Enough is this cruel war against the Ukrainians

What is war ?

Retread Thu 09-Mar-23 14:31:49

A stine is a beer tankard and you destined (de stine it) when you've had enough to drink.

What is enough?

Caleo Thu 09-Mar-23 10:40:10

Beef is the polite name for a cow or a bullock that is destined for us to eat.

What is destined?

henetha Thu 09-Mar-23 10:24:19

Steer is a young male cow raised for beef

What is beef?

Juliet27 Thu 09-Mar-23 05:01:40

It’s the name of a tower on a submarine enabling the captain to steer

What’s steer

Doodle Wed 08-Mar-23 23:07:08

Con text. Spam messages conning your out of your money.

What is conning?

Caleo Wed 08-Mar-23 20:51:10

Neighbourhood is as narrow or wide as the residential context of whatever you are talking about.

What is context?

Retread Wed 08-Mar-23 19:09:02

Prefer is when you say "I'm going to refer ..." e.g. the best baker in the neighbourhood but you first check out their website to see whether other reviewers agree with you.

What is a neighbourhood?

MrsKen33 Wed 08-Mar-23 12:14:06

Eggs are what come before a hen or after it. Whichever you prefer.

What is prefer?

henetha Wed 08-Mar-23 11:18:08

A queen is a large bee which rules the beehive and lays lots of eggs.

What is eggs?

biglouis Wed 08-Mar-23 09:26:10

Laugh is what people do when amused. We are told that Queen Victoria was not amused.

What is a queen?

MrsKen33 Tue 07-Mar-23 15:35:14

Risible is what the previous post did to me. Made me laugh.

What is laugh ?

Retread Tue 07-Mar-23 14:53:21

Visible is when well hung is risible. [Sorry!] grin

What is risible?

Mollygo Tue 07-Mar-23 14:24:57

Hung is less visible than well-hung.

What is visible?

Retread Tue 07-Mar-23 14:01:01

Itchycoo Park is where the Small Faces hung out. (Don't ask me where my brain dredged that up from!)

[Over bridge of sighs
To rest my eyes in shades of green
Under dreaming spires
To Itchycoo Park, that's where I've been...]

What is hung?

Wheniwasyourage Tue 07-Mar-23 11:44:06

No problem, BlueBelle! grin

An athlete is someone whose feet can be very itchy.

What is itchy?

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