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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?

biglouis Sat 06-May-23 12:41:55

Someone having a heavy hat parked on their head with a lot of fuss and flummery.

What is fuss?

Retread Sun 07-May-23 18:44:30

Making a fuss is not having suss when faced with a dilemma.

What is a dilemma?

biglouis Sun 07-May-23 21:31:10

Dill is a herb which aunt Emma included in many of her family recipes - thus Dill-Emma.

What is a herb?

Juliet27 Mon 08-May-23 06:42:08

It’s a decision to take the transgender route - her plan B

What is decision

biglouis Mon 08-May-23 12:16:05

Decision is the process of making a choice or judgement and is not always straightforward.

What is a choice?

swampy1961 Mon 08-May-23 12:39:20

A choice is where you decide to go left or right, or to have that last piece of cake or not, or to vote or not for the governing party that everyone on GN slates or support Liverpool FC and not Manchester UFC. We make choices everyday - not always wise ones!!
What is party?

Retread Mon 08-May-23 19:57:50

A party is when you use your lucky tee in a game of golf to play at par.

What is a game?

biglouis Tue 09-May-23 12:20:24

When you are "game" you are ready to do something a bit difficult like parachuting from a plane.

What is parachuting?

swampy1961 Wed 10-May-23 12:08:48

When you take your life in your hands and throw yourself out of an aeroplane in the hope that the canopy above you will gently float you back down to earth!

What is canopy?

Retread Wed 10-May-23 15:57:29

Canopy is when you open a can of worms.

What are worms?

biglouis Wed 10-May-23 16:24:12

Worms is a beautiful city in Germany and quite unlike those unpleasant wriggly things that are used as fish bait.

What is bait?

Squiffy Wed 10-May-23 16:28:07

Bait is what Geordie's call their meals.

What are meals?

Juliet27 Thu 11-May-23 06:29:55

They often travel on wheels

What is travel

biglouis Thu 11-May-23 16:49:36

Travel is a way to see and experience new places and people.

What is experience?

Retread Thu 11-May-23 18:49:45

Experience is when an ex lover tried to tell you that peering into people's windows like a Peeping Tom was something he did in the interests of science.

What is peeping?

Squiffy Fri 12-May-23 17:06:46

Pee ping is when a man goes for a wee and it lands on something metal.

Sorry for lowering the tone blush

What is metal?

BlueBelle Fri 12-May-23 17:12:22

Oh now metal is when I go to town to meet Al and I tell everyone “Today I went to town and met Al”
What is a town

biglouis Fri 12-May-23 20:41:42

Town (spelled Towyn locally) is a small community in North Wales where we went for caravan holidays when I was a kid.

What is a caravan?

Retread Sat 13-May-23 07:28:55

A caravan is a car that grows up to be a van.

What is grow?

Juliet27 Sat 13-May-23 08:30:46

It’s a warning that a dog gives you…it’s not quite a growl

What is a warning?

biglouis Sat 13-May-23 09:03:38

Its what the police give you when the incident is not serious enough for a formal charge.

What are police?

Mollygo Sat 13-May-23 09:46:27

Police is a slang word for parrots.

What is slang?

Retread Sat 13-May-23 20:40:37

Slang is an informal way of speaking. Examples of slang may be found on the website Urban Dictionary.

What is urban?

Squiffy Sat 13-May-23 21:24:45

An ur (‘er)ban is when a woman is forbidden to go somewhere where only ‘ims can go.

What is forbidden?

biglouis Sun 14-May-23 01:29:22

Its when someone who cannot spell is voting "for" Joe Biden.

What is voting?

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