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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’

Retread Sun 05-Nov-23 10:59:40

Fancies is when you fancy more than one meal on the menu and you can't decide with one you want the most!

What is a menu?

Juliet27 Sat 04-Nov-23 09:29:08

Fancies made by Mr Kipling are French

What are fancies?

biglouis Sat 04-Nov-23 09:16:03

A "mateur" is the French spelling for someone who helps single people looking for a mate

What is French?

Retread Thu 02-Nov-23 20:11:39

Fall off !

What is an amateur?

Retread Thu 02-Nov-23 20:11:07

A shed is when you fall of a sled because you are an amateur sledger, so the sled sheds you.

What is an amateur?

Wenmore Thu 02-Nov-23 18:52:23

A shut is a quiet shed.

What is shed?

swampy1961 Thu 02-Nov-23 13:50:44

It's that thing on the top of doors so that they shut automatically!!

What is shut?

Wenmore Thu 02-Nov-23 00:27:49

Humans are a species of primate, some far closer to the big apes than others.

What's closer?

biglouis Wed 01-Nov-23 11:16:29

Men are children of the human species who believe they are adult but seldom act like it.

What is a species?

Ali08 Wed 01-Nov-23 03:41:29

Messages are the 3 wise men (me sages) who come now & then to tell us good news, or not, depending on your religious views!

What are MEN?

Retread Tue 31-Oct-23 22:01:27

Masculine is when you line up your Covid mask 😷 on the hall table ready for when you go out the door to do your messages.

What are messages?

swampy1961 Tue 31-Oct-23 21:57:21

Dieter is a masculine name of German origin.

What is masculine?

Ali08 Tue 31-Oct-23 10:50:46

A hole is the bit in the doughnut that's good for dieters!

What is a dieter?

henetha Tue 31-Oct-23 10:44:27

Cake is a slang word for mouth. As in "Shut your cake hole"

What is hole?

Wenmore Tue 31-Oct-23 00:10:25

Visited an elderly relative in my childhood. She took me to a Social. There was old time dancing and fruit cake.

What is cake?

Retread Mon 30-Oct-23 18:47:50

A real butterfly 🦋 is a beautiful thing.

I have a friend who considers herself to be a social butterfly.

What is a social?

Wenmore Mon 30-Oct-23 12:25:17

Emperors are beds, very very large beds, possibly for very very large butterflies.

What's a butterfly?

RosiesMaw Mon 30-Oct-23 11:52:05

biglouis

The Roman emperors used to put on spectacles in the colosseum to distract the people from other issues.

What are emperors?

Was that to help them see better? 🤓🤓🤓

biglouis Mon 30-Oct-23 11:50:09

The Roman emperors used to put on spectacles in the colosseum to distract the people from other issues.

What are emperors?

BlueBelle Mon 30-Oct-23 10:56:13

Binoculars are when you totally unthinking put your spectacles in the bin
What are spectacles ?

Wenmore Mon 30-Oct-23 10:51:39

A Geordie sports one of the most identifiable accents in England, thus can be spotted at quite long range without binoculars.

What are binoculars?

Ali08 Mon 23-Oct-23 10:50:59

Warfare is what a Geordie says in response to "How are you and the family?" "Aye, war fare!" = we're fair!

What is a Geordie?

biglouis Sun 22-Oct-23 17:40:04

Liverpudlian jokes are often very harsh, like guerilla warfare.

What is warfare?

Retread Sun 22-Oct-23 12:39:50

Orifice was in an old joke - Gynae colleague to another: How was your day at the orifice?

What is a joke?

Ali08 Sun 22-Oct-23 10:44:50

Unexpected is something that slips into the wrong orifice 😆

What is orifice?