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

Dom is a programming interface for web documents and a free dom is one you dont have to pay for.

What is a document?

When you complain to the GP receptionist that you are seeing a nurse, the receptionist says "oh doc u ment?"

What's complain?

Complain is when you lay your laptop computer down for another day.

What is a laptop?

It’s where my dog inveigles himself to be as close to me as possible.

What is inveigles?

The Veigles are a historical family known for their wealth so "inVeigles" are their friends and hangers on.

What is wealth?

Wealth is what you have when you have a healthy bank balance.

What is a balance?

Balance is something you are in danger of losing if you walk home from a merry night at the pub.

What is merry?

Merry is a happy word. It can mean you are nearly drunk, or it can be the Australian way of proposing, - Will you merry me?"

DRUNK

Sorry, should read

What is Drunk?

Drunk is when you dunk a biscuit and it dissolves into your tea, so it is dunked and drunked.

What is a biscuit?

If someone or something "takes the biscuit" it is especially annoying, surprising.

What is annoying?

My friend Ann at school used to shout "oy oy" to get your attention. We used to say "that's Annoying".

What's a friend?

A true friend is one on whom you could call to help you dispose of a body.

What is a body?

A body can be busy i.e. a busybody, or it can be shamed by hurtful comments, but we all have them and without them we would just be a bundle of organs, bones and other elements needed for staying alive, so bodies are to be celebrated.

What is an organ?

At this time of year there will be ‘playing of the merry organ’ in many churches and let’s hope our bodily organs will also be feeling healthily merry and not affected by overindulgence.

What is indulgence

Indulgence refers to a very nice little village in Ireland. I'm always happy when I'm in Dulgence.

What is village?

A village is a small collection of houses with bored and nosy people who consider everything to be their business.

What is business?

Business (Busy Ness) is when the Loch Ness monster has had many reported sightings.

What is a sighting?

Sighting is what Specsavers are involved in. (other opticians are available). They want us to have good healthy eyes.

What is healthy?

Healthy is where Thee (that’s short for Theo) goes if hes been bad
What’s short ?

Shrift can be short, depending on the priest.

What is shrift?

Shrift is the sense of relief which those of Catholic faith experience after confession.

What is confession?

Confession (confess-shun) is when you shun the fact that you have to come clean about something, in other words, you avoid being honest.

What is honest?

Honest - often very confronting

What is confronting ,

Confronting is when you con your way to the front of the queue.

What is a queue?