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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 Sat 29-Jul-23 20:15:00

(Wenmore that is a real blast from the past. As I remember, Patience Strong wrote extremely sentimental soppy poems and they were also sold as greeting cards).

Eng-lish is like Brit- ish in other words sort of, or a little bit Eng-el-ish when you are unsure of whether you belong here because your parents were born in a different part of the world.

What is belong?

Wenmore Fri 28-Jul-23 23:16:43

Patience Strong was the pseudonym of a 20th century English female poet. I read her poetry in one of my mother's women's magazines in the 1960/70s. Still sticks in my mind.

What is English?

biglouis Fri 28-Jul-23 12:55:25

An instrument is a device used to produce music, something I never had the patience to learn.

What is patience?

Juliet27 Fri 28-Jul-23 11:20:30

To jam is to join in with others playing instruments to make music together.

What is an instrument?

Wenmore Thu 27-Jul-23 23:08:17

Traffic is what the red light builds up when it makes all the cars stop. Often causing a traffic jam, a red jam.

What is jam?

Doodle Thu 27-Jul-23 22:30:54

Weight is what you have to do when the traffic lights are red.

What is traffic?

Squiffy Thu 27-Jul-23 19:21:27

Outfit is when you’ve out a lot of weight on and can no longer get into your clothes.

What is weight?

Retread Thu 27-Jul-23 18:58:09

Neutral is when you trawl the Internet for a new outfit.

What is an outfit?

biglouis Thu 27-Jul-23 09:14:01

Nice is a neutral descriptive word often used out of politeness when confronted with something embarassing.

What is neutral?

Wenmore Wed 26-Jul-23 23:11:20

Consideration is taking sides over rations and conning people. It's not nice

What is nice?

biglouis Wed 26-Jul-23 01:27:30

In Liverpool slang "heavy" (pronounced in a downbeat tone) means that a course of action needs careful consideration.

What is consideration?

Wenmore Wed 26-Jul-23 00:27:25

Head is the lovely creamy moustache making froth on a pint of heavy.

What is heavy?

Doodle Tue 25-Jul-23 22:26:40

Discussion is when you get hit on the head by a discus.

What is head?

Squiffy Tue 25-Jul-23 16:32:24

What is discussion?

Squiffy Tue 25-Jul-23 16:31:56

A sister is a nun who has a habit - whether it’s a good or bad habit is open for discussion! blush

BlueBelle Tue 25-Jul-23 15:56:47

It’s RuPaul s sister RuLer
What’s a sister ?

Juliet27 Tue 25-Jul-23 14:38:32

Yes indeed Retread ☺️ 🙄

Foreign is where your enemy seems to be the ruler - foe reign

What is a ruler

Retread Tue 25-Jul-23 13:44:42

It is exotic when you have erotic dreams about a former foreign lover.

What is foreign?

biglouis Tue 25-Jul-23 12:05:50

Tearful is how I feel when I consider that I will not be fit enough to travel again to exotic places.

What is exotic?

Retread Tue 25-Jul-23 06:49:20

E-motion is when you get a sad email and the words swim before your eyes as you become tearful.

What is tearful?

Wenmore Tue 25-Jul-23 01:31:26

Pride
Is a wonderfully positive emotion.
"High Fives"

What is emotion?

biglouis Mon 24-Jul-23 11:14:11

When you show off something you have worked hard to achieve you can display it with a sense of pride.

What is pride?

Retread Mon 24-Jul-23 06:01:57

To "viz it" is when you write "viz a viz" in a document instead of "with regard to", to show off.

What is a show-off?

biglouis Mon 24-Jul-23 02:01:14

The Levant is a part of the world near the Mediterranean I visited in the 1960s so re-levant would mean a second visit.

What is a visit?

Wenmore Sun 23-Jul-23 23:33:33

Toast is death as in 'you're toast' most relevant if it's followed by cremation.

What is relevant?

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