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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 Tue 18-Jul-23 16:27:46

Language (languish) is when you are very lazy and you flop around because there is a heatwave.

What is a flop?

biglouis Tue 18-Jul-23 10:48:06

France is a country just across the water where they are often rude to English people who attempt to speak their language.

What is language?

Wenmore Tue 18-Jul-23 06:19:36

Britain is Great, so are France and Italy but they are less boastful.

What is France?

Ali08 Tue 18-Jul-23 05:34:54

Ana Ward is my neighbour. She's very nice and a great neighbour to have.

What's great?

Wenmore Tue 18-Jul-23 03:02:32

Assuming a typo, a wardrobe is a robe that's won an award

What's an award?

swampy1961 Mon 17-Jul-23 22:36:27

It's a piece of furniture - usually advertised as 'with draw-ers' as opposed to a bed or wardrobe.

What is a wardobe?

Retread Mon 17-Jul-23 16:30:05

A degree is when you withdraw a previous agree(ment) that you made.

What is withdraw?

biglouis Sun 16-Jul-23 22:07:19

Dr-Ama is someone who has completed an advanced degree in a specific degree such as shopping on Amazon

What is a degree?

Squiffy Sun 16-Jul-23 18:11:43

A char actor is someone performing as a cleaner in a drama.

What is a drama?

Retread Sun 16-Jul-23 17:18:47

Devices are bad habits and character defects to be avoided.

What is character?

Ali08 Sun 16-Jul-23 13:42:33

Honour is what we are when we are left on our own to our own devices.

What is devices?

biglouis Sun 16-Jul-23 12:52:52

Knighted is an empty title that sometimes happens to politicos who are completely undeserving of honour.

What is honour?

Juliet27 Sun 16-Jul-23 07:09:52

Before Gro Rhee was knighted he was simply Mister Rhee

What is knighted

Retread Sat 15-Jul-23 20:06:13

Groceries remind me of one Mr Rhee who worked for Life magazine. He went missing for a while, and when he was found,
a call went out "Oh, sweet Mr Rhee of Life! At last I found you".

So perhaps a man called Gro Rhee was knighted so he was (Gro) Sir Rhee.

What is a mystery?

Squiffy Sat 15-Jul-23 09:45:40

Perch is another way of saying ‘buy’ - I’m off to purch some groceries today.

What are groceries?

biglouis Sat 15-Jul-23 09:27:19

"Its just stunned" was one explanation for the immobile (dead) parrot which was nailed to its perch.

What is a perch?

Retread Fri 14-Jul-23 18:27:25

Kilt is what you say when you swat a fly as in "I hope I kilt it, because the big green ones are sometimes just stunned".

What is stunned?

Mollygo Fri 14-Jul-23 09:19:25

A Warren is what Scottish bunny girls wear on the front of their kilts.

What’s a kilt?

Juliet27 Fri 14-Jul-23 07:37:36

Pronounce it wrongly and it sounds like the surname of an extremely wealthy man called Warren

What is a warren

biglouis Fri 14-Jul-23 06:28:06

Spread is an extravagant display of food and drink at a meal or buffet

What is a buffet?

Squiffy Thu 13-Jul-23 10:15:38

Con fection is when there are multiple cases of people being conned and the spread is like an infection.

What is spread?

biglouis Thu 13-Jul-23 09:28:33

Cake is a delicious confection which is invariably bad for your teeth and for gaining weight.

What is confection?

Squiffy Wed 12-Jul-23 15:02:41

Flour-ish is when a cake is very dry and feels floury rather than moist.

What is cake?

swampy1961 Wed 12-Jul-23 14:28:03

Prosper is not what happened to this game thread!! Which is to flourish and grow!!

What is flourish!!

biglouis Thu 06-Jul-23 22:20:10

To flourish is to grow, or as Mr Spock always said, Live Long and Prosper

What is prosper?

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