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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?

Wenmore Tue 18-Jul-23 16:47:27

A flop is the opposite of a flip, if you don't flip a pancake it's a flop.

What is a pancake?

Juliet27 Tue 18-Jul-23 17:52:37

Pancake is the ache you feel with pancreatitis

What is an ache.

Squiffy Tue 18-Jul-23 18:17:47

An ‘ake is a type of fish, sometimes available in a fish and chip shop.

What is available?

Wenmore Tue 18-Jul-23 19:59:32

I am available but if l wore a habit l might be nunavailable.

What is a habit?

swampy1961 Wed 19-Jul-23 12:32:16

It's a house that a rabbit lives in!!

What's a rabbit?

Retread Wed 19-Jul-23 14:16:27

Rabbit is the croaking sound that frogs make! 🐸

What is a frog?

biglouis Thu 20-Jul-23 01:39:21

A frog is a type of purely decorative gold lace fastening found on a ceremonial military jacket.

What is ceremonial?

Ali08 Thu 20-Jul-23 05:59:02

Sara Monial is my grandsons sports teacher. He really enjoys her lessons.

What is enjoys?

Retread Thu 20-Jul-23 06:58:19

(Well done Ali08 👏)

Enjoy is when an envoy carries a message and really likes their job.

What is carries?

Mollygo Thu 20-Jul-23 08:18:56

Carries are holes in yourr teeth if you don’t brrush them
What is brush?

Juliet27 Thu 20-Jul-23 09:28:03

A brush is something you can have with death if you’re not very careful

What is a death

biglouis Thu 20-Jul-23 15:15:08

Death (aka the grim reaper) is an unpopular character who runs about wielding a big scythe.

What is a scythe?

Retread Thu 20-Jul-23 19:38:47

A scythe (skive) is when you procrastinate when you're supposed to be working.

What is procrastinate?

Wenmore Fri 21-Jul-23 00:34:14

Failing to procrastinate any longer l am submitting this poor offering, l hope it passes muster.

What is muster?

biglouis Fri 21-Jul-23 01:48:54

Muster is when troops assemble for their daily dose of mustard.

What are troops?

Doodle Fri 21-Jul-23 10:42:21

Troops are true stories about the oops! 😱 moments in your life.

What are moments?

Retread Fri 21-Jul-23 11:20:46

Moments are magic when two hearts are caring... 🎶

What is magic?

biglouis Fri 21-Jul-23 12:56:36

Magic is a light listening radio station which you can put on and then ignore to drown out the neighbours.

What is a listening?

Wenmore Sat 22-Jul-23 01:08:21

People sometimes lend a listening ear, l don't know what the other ear does at the time, or whether they rotate the ear lent.

What is lent?

Retread Sat 22-Jul-23 19:33:46

Lent is what the idle person did against a wall for most of the day.

What is idle?

swampy1961 Sat 22-Jul-23 20:50:52

Being idle is the new way to be lazy or avoiding work!

What's avoiding?

biglouis Sun 23-Jul-23 01:01:19

Avoiding (as opposed to evading) paying taxes is legally allowed because it simply means finding holes in the system.

What is a system?

Retread Sun 23-Jul-23 15:47:30

System (Sis Tem) is Sister Temperance who used to teach at the Convent school.

What is temperance?

Juliet27 Sun 23-Jul-23 17:24:04

Temperance brings back memories. I used to dread my father’s sisters coming to stay. They were always angry and I used to call them the Temper Aunts.

What is dread

Mollygo Sun 23-Jul-23 21:22:04

Dread is bread that is too dry even for toast. What is toast?

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