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GOVENDE - a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 3

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Juliet27 Sun 30-Jul-23 00:39:31

Continued from Game 2

What is belong

It’s when as a child you said you were just going out to play and your mother said ‘don’t be long, dinner’s nearly ready’

biglouis Fri 01-Sept-23 00:25:42

Harold Shipman used the cover of a kind and caring doctor to conceal a guilty secret.

What is a secret?

swampy1961 Thu 31-Aug-23 21:56:20

Cri me a river!!- it's one of those songs which has made loads of cover versions like Justin Timberlake or Barbara Streisand!!!

What's a cover?

Retread Thu 31-Aug-23 16:18:25

Excited is when your ex is named as a person of interest in a crime.

What is a crime?

henetha Thu 31-Aug-23 10:26:58

Historical is an over-excited person who shouts a lot... a combination of the words 'hysterical' and 'oral' .

What is excited?

biglouis Thu 31-Aug-23 01:48:37

A adjective much used in historical novels to decribe someone who is ill or dying.

What is historical?

Retread Tue 29-Aug-23 17:03:46

One (wan) is to to look sickly, with a pallor.

What is a pallor?

Wenmore Mon 28-Aug-23 23:05:31

A blessing is received when one sneezes.

What is one?

biglouis Mon 28-Aug-23 13:32:00

Prayer is asking the supreme being for a favour or blessing in the hope that they will listen.

What is a blessing?

Retread Sun 27-Aug-23 17:12:22

"Ah-men" is what is said at the end of a prayer, or sometimes in agreement.

What is a prayer?

Ali08 Sun 27-Aug-23 05:25:14

Teachers are makers of whiskey, that men seem to enjoy drinking.

What are men?

biglouis Fri 25-Aug-23 17:50:25

This is a resort where teachers of philosophy go for their vacation.

That are teachers?

Retread Fri 25-Aug-23 11:23:45

Vulgar behaviour is doing something lacking in sophistication (according to some people).

What is sophistication?

biglouis Wed 23-Aug-23 17:31:43

Common is an older expression used to imply someone is vulgar and noisy.

What is vulgar?

Wenmore Tue 22-Aug-23 23:02:18

Leather is tanned hide, common on Benidorm's beaches.

What is common?

swampy1961 Tue 22-Aug-23 22:26:46

Fashioned is just an upmarket snobbish way way of saying you used materials to manufacture something like leather to make shoes and boots.

What is leather?

biglouis Tue 22-Aug-23 11:43:40

Hymn rhymes with "him" and is an old fashioned way of pointing out a male person.

What is fashioned?

Retread Mon 21-Aug-23 11:27:43

Embarrass sing is me when I don't know the words to the hymn.

What is a hymn?

biglouis Mon 21-Aug-23 11:15:45

Smoothing out the embarrassing wrinkles is something the government are constantly trying to do.

What is embarrasing?

swampy1961 Sun 20-Aug-23 22:16:28

It's a gadget for smoothing out pieces of wood.

What is smoothing?

biglouis Sun 20-Aug-23 13:23:59

Well some people think that free-falling out of a plane is fun but its not my idea of enjoyment.

What is a plane?

Wenmore Sat 19-Aug-23 17:31:51

Effete is a fun day in the home counties, as in ' we are having ef fete'.

What is fun?

Retread Sat 19-Aug-23 12:48:18

A buffet is a seriously buff man who is also effete.

What is effete?

biglouis Sat 19-Aug-23 09:49:00

A seating is when a number of people are served a meal at tables rather than buffet style.

What is a buffet?

swampy1961 Fri 18-Aug-23 17:43:16

When someone won't commit to whose side they are on - they said to be sitting on de fence!!

What is sitting?

biglouis Fri 18-Aug-23 13:37:43

Defence of the realm is a phrase which excuses many hidden and nefarious deeds.

What is a defence?