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

Intoxicated is when you are involved in other people's toxic lives when you should be extricating yourself from problems that are not your concern.

What is extricate?

Doubly is how people are believed to see the world when they are intoxicated.

What is intoxicated?

Catchy is the name of a poor old monkey who travels doubly slowly

What is doubly

Relax is a song released in 1983, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, which caused a controversy at the time leading to it being banned/unbanned by the BBC. It's quite catchy.

What is catchy?

Software is when you come in after a long day at work, unhook your bra and fling it towards the wash basket, kick your shoes off, strip off your tights and get into a soft, comfy old pair of tracksuit pants to wear and relax on the sofa.

What is relax?

Panion is a crowdfunding software company who want you to donate, thus "come panion".

What is software?

Ahh now welcome is when you’re in the desert and find water and you shout to your companion
“Well, come”
What’s a companion?

Women welcomed, men shunned.

What is welcome?

amusement

Being a muse meant more than the artist had mentioned.

What is mentioned

A joke is something done to provoke amusement but some jokes are nasty and can be very hurtful.

What is amusement?

Hazel Nut is married to Mr.P.Nut and they own a joke shop.

What is a joke?

Apologies, it should be hazelnut! D'oh

A Topic is a chocolate bar with nougat, caramel and a hazlenut in every bite. I say 'is' but l haven't seen one for some years

What is a hazlenut?

A skirt is when you avoid talking about a painful topic, so you skirt around it.

What is a topic?

Scotland is the land that Scot bought for his family to live on.
They're an original family, preferring that the men, too, wear skirts!

What is a skirt?

A dance is a triumph, a jubilation, often exclaimed (in parts of Scotland) as "you dancer!" A congratulatory remark noting exceptional achievement.

What is Scotland?

A skanse is similar to a dance as done in Nordic countries.

What is a dance?

Elbow is when you are attempting to straighten a bow tie and it infuriatingly keeps sitting askance, hence hell bow.

What is askance?

Tennis is when you get a sore elbow caused by hitting balls over nets too much.

What is elbow?

Observe is an old boy playing tennis.

What's tennis?

I would observe caution walking near an adder in case I stirred up asp ire

What is observe?

Class rooms are either lounges or sitting rooms or even drawing rooms depending on which class you, and others, think you aspire to.

What is aspire?

Boards are spaces used to display information in classrooms where students often become bored staring at them.

What are classrooms?

A mother is someone who likes catching moths and pins them to boards, in the way that lepidopterists do.

What are boards?

Ma-jesty is a mother with a weird sense of humour.

What is a mother?