Govende – a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 2

I saw a film called Sweet Charity many moons ago, starring Shirley Maclaine. She sings Hey, Big Spender in it. In the film, Charity is a hostess at Fandango Ballroom, and an optimistic female.

What is optimistic?

Ins Ted is the bear that they keep on the pub counter holding a charity collection jar.

What’s charity?

Unsure is when your insurance premiums keep increasing and you'd quite like to unsure instead of insure.

What's instead?

An errand is when you're unsure and you go "Err, and ... I mean, actually..."

What is unsure?

Send Sybil is what you say when you want someone to run an errand for you.

What is an errand?

A supposedly sensible newspaper.

What is sensible?

Too many times to count!!

What is times?

Gravy is something that often comes along on a train.

What is often?

Its something you eat on a sunday with gravy and two veg.

What is gravy?

Lottery is when two friends meet and one says to the other
‘ Lo Terry. 👋

What is meet?

You have a gain in your street (st) when a bunch of people win the postcode lottery.

What is a lottery?

Aversion is when you really don't like something, or you've taken against it.

What is against?

You can hedge a bet. It’s a bit like a greener version of sitting on the fence.

What is a version

When you get lost in one of those weird places with lots of twisty paths between high hedges.

What are hedges?

Occasion is when something amazing, good or bad, happens and you go "OH!!!".

What is amazing?

Smoke occasionally gets in your eyes ...

What's an occasion?

Matches are little bits of wood used to make fire when you wish to smoke

What is smoke?

A tax are when people hit on each other, or strategies in football matches.

Matches

Cravat is the value added tax (vat) you pay on a consignment of cray (or cra) fish if you own a chip shop.

What is a tax?

Proper ties are worn when a man attends a very smart event (in other words, no clip on ties or cravats allowed).

What is a cravat?

Parents are rents that are in keeping with that of similar properties

What are properties?

Spoiling is what happens to children when they are given too much by over indulgent parents.

What are parents?

A blow is an unexpected happening that spoils your day.

What is/are spoils?

A feast is a fierce wind that blows from the East.

What is a blow?

Its said that "enough is as good as a feast" but hungry teens often want more.

What is a feast?