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

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

What is common?

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

What is vulgar?

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

What is sophistication?

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

That are teachers?

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

What are men?

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

What is a prayer?

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

What is a blessing?

A blessing is received when one sneezes.

What is one?

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

What is a pallor?

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

What is historical?

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

What is excited?

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

What is a crime?

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?

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

What is a secret?

A secret is when you hide something away, for example you secrete a slab of chocolate down the side of the sofa so you don't have to share it.

What is a sofa?

A sofa is a type of potato, a couch is another type of potato.

What is a potato?

A potatoe head is a toy children played with before the invention of smart phones and tablets.

What are inventions?

Invention is when you make something up, and if you're lucky, it is worth registering a patent for it and it makes a fortune.

What is a fortune?

Fortune is something that old gypsies used to tell if you "crossed their palm" with silver.

What is a palm?

To palm off is to give the impression that something you want to get rid of is of value so the unsuspecting purchaser ends up lumbered instead.

What is lumbered?

Lumbered is a way of walking. "The big guy lumbered towards me and wrapped me in a warm embrace". (He asked for consent first). 🫠

What is embrace?

M-brace-short for something that makes your teeth straight.

What is straight?

Straight is when you move in one direction only as opposed to deviating from the path.

What is a path?

A path is the way forward when walking or thinking.

What is thinking

Thinking is something Descartes thought proved he existed, he was later possibly proved wrong, I'm still thinking about that

What is something?