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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 20-Oct-23 15:18:06

Rob is the name of my cleaner who tends to tidy away stuff in unexpected places.

What is unexpected?

Retread Wed 18-Oct-23 18:34:23

Don't worry Ali, it's fine ☺️

Haste is when people rob a bank and pronounce the word "heist" phonetically.

What is a rob?

biglouis Wed 18-Oct-23 16:37:13

Marry is something you do in haste and repent at leisure.

What is haste?

Ali08 Wed 18-Oct-23 08:39:52

Law is what you get when you marry, ie, mother-in-law!

What is marry?

Ali08 Wed 18-Oct-23 08:38:55

I'm so sorry, Retread, I totally forgot! 😢

biglouis Sun 15-Oct-23 03:16:52

Time is something you do at His Majesty's Pleasure when you break the law.

What is law?

Wenmore Sat 14-Oct-23 21:56:08

Could be a long time coming.

What is time?

Retread Fri 13-Oct-23 18:41:36

Ali we need a "what is..." from you smile

Ali08 Fri 13-Oct-23 03:24:42

Natural is nothing you'd expect to happen on Friday the 13th....

biglouis Fri 13-Oct-23 01:38:33

An unaffected person is natural and not false or pretentious.

What is natural?

Retread Wed 11-Oct-23 08:26:48

Ali grin

Passengers are when a situation that someone has deliberately engendered to upset you, passes you by and you are unaffected by it.

What is unaffected?

Ali08 Wed 11-Oct-23 06:45:52

Involved is passengers in a Volvo that sped off to its destination.

What are passengers?

biglouis Mon 09-Oct-23 13:50:11

If something (for example a game) is quintessential it means that a team of five people must be involved in order to play.

What is involved?

Wenmore Sun 08-Oct-23 14:04:05

What is quintessentially Scottish is anything Tunnocks.

What is quintessential?

henetha Sun 08-Oct-23 11:40:33

Drama , - dram ma - is a word/words used by a young Scottish lad begging his mother to let him have a wee dram of whisky when he is still too young. She often gives in.

What is Scottish?

Retread Sat 07-Oct-23 16:58:43

Character is an actor playing the part of a char in a period drama.

What is a drama?

biglouis Sat 07-Oct-23 00:54:41

Captain Birdseye was a TV character who encouraged us to eat fish fingers

What is a character?

swampy1961 Thu 05-Oct-23 22:24:53

He is the Pirate Captain in Peter Pan!!

What is a captain?

biglouis Thu 05-Oct-23 14:25:19

Wriggle is what worms do when caught on the hook - just like corrupt politicians when found breaking the rules.

What is a hook?

Retread Wed 04-Oct-23 18:31:56

Policy is what organisations sometimes strictly apply so that they can wriggle out of a situation.

What is wriggle?

biglouis Wed 04-Oct-23 12:30:40

Gastric (or gas trick) is a policy used by unscrupulous fuel suppliers to con consumers into overpaying by direct debit.

What is a policy?

henetha Wed 04-Oct-23 10:56:01

They are elastic, sometimes called gastric, to help you eat less.

GASTRIC

biglouis Tue 03-Oct-23 01:45:06

Sparkly outfits were worn by bands during the glam rock era and look really silly now.

What are bands?

henetha Mon 02-Oct-23 12:01:07

It's one of the stage outfits for the pop group Sclub7. ( Although I think they are just SClub now). They wear beautiful sparkly capes for one of their routines on stage.

What's sparkly?

Mollygo Sun 01-Oct-23 20:28:39

A shave, especially a close one means you just escaped having an accident and not just with a razor!

What’s escape?