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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’

65KL Thu 01-Feb-24 03:47:13

Pontificate much like defecate just from a different orifice.

What is just ?

Retread Tue 30-Jan-24 19:49:47

Needless pontification in meetings are what people do to justify their existence. (Sometimes, of course!)

What is pontificate?

biglouis Sun 07-Jan-24 13:47:14

To facilitate is to enable or guide group meetings but some facilitators are hard work and full of themselves!

What are meetings?

Retread Sun 07-Jan-24 12:53:19

A chair can be a person who facilitates a meeting.

What is facilitate?

65KL Sun 07-Jan-24 05:31:37

Future is furniture for your pets
My dog likes to sit on his fur chair

What is a chair ?

biglouis Sat 06-Jan-24 16:25:56

Tense is how you feel when meeting your future mother in law for the first time.

What is future?

Retread Sat 06-Jan-24 12:20:00

Food is past tense for foo (being drunk).

What is tense?

PestyOne Fri 05-Jan-24 23:30:34

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate (Emily Dickinson)

What is FOOD

henetha Fri 05-Jan-24 10:14:03

A decade is a personal assistant to the lovely little Dec of Ant & Dec fame.

What is fame?

65KL Thu 04-Jan-24 20:50:06

Oh my dam age is going to clock over another decade soon !

What is decade ?

Retread Tue 02-Jan-24 13:38:21

An accent is a little accident, that doesn't cause too much damage.

What is damage?

henetha Mon 01-Jan-24 10:37:16

A year means, in Devon, "come over yer", in other words, come here. It does require a Devonshire accent.

What is an accent?

OldFrill Mon 01-Jan-24 00:36:11

2023 is gon na here is 2024.
Happy New Year!

What is a year?

65KL Sun 31-Dec-23 20:53:22

Servant - someone who serves

'But your gonna have to serve somebody yes
Indeed your gonna have to serve somebody
Well it may be the devil or it may be the lord
But your going have to serve somebody '
(Bob Dylan)

What is gonna ?

biglouis Sat 30-Dec-23 00:57:37

A wife used to be (and sometimes still is) a legal title for some man's servant and concubine.

What is a servant?

OldFrill Fri 29-Dec-23 00:41:30

Raybans are Ray's pricey sunglasses and urbans are his wifes

What's a wife?

Retread Thu 28-Dec-23 20:32:12

Jelly is urban slang for feelings of jealousy.

What is urban?

BlueBelle Wed 27-Dec-23 20:33:48

Well one wobbly is jelly,another is a fat bum
What is jelly?

65KL Wed 27-Dec-23 19:26:17

Th Rough is a place on a golf course you don't want your ball to end up in. It makes for a difficult shot . Many golfers have lost their cool there and thrown a wobbly!!

What is wobbly ?

Wheniwasyourage Wed 27-Dec-23 15:46:22

A window is what yonder light breaks through

What is through?

henetha Wed 27-Dec-23 12:04:50

Indication is when you put your indicators on while driving.
These days it's just a click, but I remember when you had to wave your arm out of the car window.

What is a window?

Retread Wed 27-Dec-23 08:13:37

Celeb rate is an indication of what you think of a so-called "celebrity".

What is an indication?

65KL Tue 26-Dec-23 19:57:11

Tonight is nigh the last night of the year . That night we celebrate

What is celebrate?

Wheniwasyourage Sun 24-Dec-23 10:17:17

Santa Claus is visiting good children tonight.

What is tonight?

biglouis Sun 24-Dec-23 10:10:59

A round (as opposed to a square, rectangle or triangle, is the act of visiting a number of people in turn and often done at this time of year.

What is visiting?