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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?

Doodle Sun 11-Jun-23 20:56:56

Ex ample is something that used to be more than enough but isn’t now.

What is enough?

Mollygo Sun 11-Jun-23 15:24:36

An item is the thing you forget to buy or to take with you if you don’t make a list. Our recent trip to Norfolk was a good example of missing items!
What is an Example?

Retread Sun 11-Jun-23 14:24:10

Plastic is when you place a tick against an item on your "to do" list.

What is an item?

Squiffy Sun 11-Jun-23 14:04:13

A ballroom is a space filled with small plastic balls for children to climb on and roll around on.

What is plastic?

biglouis Sun 11-Jun-23 13:41:48

Strictly is a TV program where couples in glitzy costumes and grotesque makeup do ballroom dancing.

What is a ballroom?

swampy1961 Sat 10-Jun-23 22:04:24

A sweet!! Well more strictly - one of several types of miniature bars of chocolate sweet usually sold in a tub for Christmas!

What is strictly?

biglouis Sat 10-Jun-23 10:05:22

Superman is a powerful hero with a vice like grip so items grabbed by him are super-vised.

What is a hero?

swampy1961 Fri 09-Jun-23 21:16:19

Adults are those people who accompany children who should be supervised because they do not fulfill the criteria for entrance to a venue such as the cinema or the pub!!

What is supervised?

biglouis Wed 07-Jun-23 22:55:51

"Sunshine" was one of the ways adults sometimes addressed children in the olden days.

What are adults?

Squiffy Wed 07-Jun-23 18:29:02

‘Smelting’ is what you say about your ice cream when you are trying to eat it in the sunshine.

What is sunshine?

Juliet27 Wed 07-Jun-23 14:32:56

It’s all to do with smelting iron.

What is smelting?

Retread Wed 07-Jun-23 12:56:12

A discretion is when you ignore someone who lives on the island of Crete.

What is ignore?

Juliet27 Wed 07-Jun-23 06:36:49

It’s when someone is weighing up whether or not they should eventually confess a discretion.

What is discretion?

biglouis Wed 07-Jun-23 00:09:48

Successful actors treat their profession as a lifestyle rather than simply as a job.

What is a profession?

BlueBelle Tue 06-Jun-23 22:26:13

Castrated is when actors are in a play and they rate them as good bad or ugly
What are actors ?

swampy1961 Tue 06-Jun-23 21:45:46

A Bullock!! A Boy cow that has been castrated!!

What's castrated?

biglouis Tue 06-Jun-23 13:55:23

These are people who are "Home, home on the range" as in the song which often accompanies old cowboy films.

What is a cowboy?

Juliet27 Tue 06-Jun-23 11:23:35

Pre paired are arranged marriages

What is arranged

Retread Mon 05-Jun-23 17:42:24

Settlers are people who are prepared to settle, e.g. in a dispute.

What is prepared?

biglouis Mon 05-Jun-23 11:35:56

The Sioux are First Nation tribes of north America who were run off their traditonal lands by European settlers.

What are settlers?

swampy1961 Sun 04-Jun-23 23:00:27

A native person is indigenous to wherever they hail from.
Every single country has it own natives but as an example the Americans have Sioux natives, Apache natives and Cherokee natives. They are all Indians!!

What is Sioux?

biglouis Sun 04-Jun-23 12:42:48

A polemic is someone called Mic (or Mike) who is a native of Poland.

What is a native?

Retread Sat 03-Jun-23 14:28:43

A forum is when you think "Um" afore you start a new thread on this site in case it becomes polemical.

What is polemic?

biglouis Sat 03-Jun-23 10:09:00

A poster is someone who things they have something interesting to say on an online forum!

What is a forum?

Mollygo Sat 03-Jun-23 08:03:47

A tack is what we used to fasten posters to the wall before the advent of Blu-tak.

What is a poster?

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