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HOGWASH : phagotum RESULTS ON PAGE FIVE choose one
a) Alimentation, the liquid pushed through a tube into a comatose person's stomach.
b) Outdoor restaurant in an agora (Greek marketplace); by extension, any sidewalk café.
c) The algae which clings to rocks and docks at the water line of fresh water lakes and slow-moving streams.
d) Appellation for the Hughes BGM-71 fly-by-wire anti-tank missile, nicknamed the "little tank eater" (from phago-, eating + Tank Unhinging Missile).
e) A glutton - someone who eats too much.
f) An open-work decoration of fabric in which thread is drawn in crisscross stitches across an open seam; a corruption from Greek “phaekelos” (i.e., fagot).
g) A traveling cloak used for protection against stormy weather.
h) Roman military rations which consisted of corn, bacon, cheese, vegetables, fruit, olive oil and wine.
i) A Renaissance-era prototype of the bassoon (fagotte), originally designed with bagpipes in mind.
j) Any of an order of insectivorous vascular plants often with the sporangia borne in lanceolate-shaped strobili.
k) Medical term for the effects of a previous attack of acid indigestion on 'beneficial bacteria' in the bowel. "He is suffering from phagotum".
l) A colony of flesh-eating bacteria.
m) Residue from a deteriorating cell.
n) Something eaten which is not normally part of the eater's diet.
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It is probably "e"; but I love "d" - it really ought to be the answer. However, the ornate language of J so appeals to me that it has to have my vote, right or wrong.
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I mo vote for h just because so many people will reject it for the inclusion of corn on the list.
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Yeah, corn. You got a problem with that?
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What's maize got to do with it?
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What's maize got to do with it?Oh, c'mon, Faldage...now you're being corny.
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