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powfag.. choose one:
a) a shaggy-dog story; a groaner [from a series of short stories by Larry Niven (as Lynn Varrie), all of which ended with an outrageous pun: Percival Powfag's Exploits in Known Space
b) [from Cree (US)] the raw materials used to make up a fire
c) a powderhorn designed to be hung from the saddle of a horse
d) a very strong cigarette [Welsh slang, from pwff puff, and ffagl flame, torch]
e) a persistent heavy mist occurring during cold weather in the late fall or early spring, common in woods in northern Wisconsin [from Menominee apeha'pfe-o-akh, it deceives the eyes]
f) 1. (Finnish) a crude broom made from twigs tied together
2. (musical jargon; contraction of "power faggotto") an electric bassoon
g) Pretty, Overweight, White, Female, Actively Gay (well known to Date Referral Services)
h) the ceremonial burning-at-the-stake of a captured enemy
i) slang. any damaged vented midrange on a woofer [from 'Peavey-Olsen Woofer Functional Acoustics Gap' (roadie term of art, 1970's)]
j) Scots term for a talisman carried in a sporran, typically carved from cherry burl, though occasionally carved from stone or bone
k) to tire bodily from overwork; to become worn out in mind from care or anxiety; to work to the point of exhaustion
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entries from dxb, musick, ASp, wofa, milum, Faldage, maxq, Wordwind, TEd, owlbow, and the usual gang of idiots
two entries were *very similar and I combined them.
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I'm going with "E" because I've been there. Also know as 'Superior slush'.
After a little re-search it seems to be only my personal small band of idiots who called it that...
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This may be the strongest set of offerings in the history of our game. Almost every one (with the possible exception of f)has the ring of truth to it. I was gonna vote for e but Musick already jumped on it. I think Dese will do.
And the reason I think D answer is D answer is that when I looked at the word I wondered if it might have something to do with a burning branch, or faggot, so I'll stick with that. No one try to change my mind now!
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I think I'll go with E because it's the only one to have a square bracket rather than a parenthesis (although I don't think it's the most convincing definition).
e] vs d) c) a) etc.
It's genius!
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I'm with TEd. these are great defs.
gimme a B
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As are in the rules I'd like to vote a split-ticket.
Please place 1/2 of my vote on "E".
And put the other 1/2 on the letter "C".
Thank you.
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Now, Mr. Dickens, was it the best of times or the worst of times. You can scarcely have it both ways.
For those tempted to vote for E, a hevay fog or mist, derived from the Menominee word apeha'pfe-o-akh, I must tell you that my late father spent several years learning Menominee (he was born in Menominee, MI in 1902) and according to his Menominee-English dictionary this word apeha'pfe-o-akh is their term for the flail used to harvest wild rice along the shorelines of the lakes and rivers in the area.
My old man tried for years to get the ten tribes of the UP to appoint him their agent for selling wild rice, which would have made all of them rich. The ten tribes have the right to harvest all wild rice on the shores of Michigan and Superior (though there isn't much wild rice in Superior). One tribe refused to do this so the mini-cartel died aborning and they all to this day continue to try to undersell the others.
I still have pictures of my father in a canoe that is laden almost to the gunwales with the just-harvested rice. He's holding a apeha'pfe-o-akh in his left hand and his other hand is holding out to one of the chiefs a bottle of fire water.
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I usually don't post editorially in midvote, but then I am the hogmaster.
1) I've changed the bracket on e), making it just the same as other definitions (as it was intended to be) -- any subtextual meaning gleaned from this (and the selfsame correction thereof) is taken at your own risk
2) a bit earlier, I added italics to apeha'pfe-o-akh and other foreign bits, which had gotten lost in transit from one venue to another
3) half votes get automagically invalidated; this has come up before. YCLIU
4] always remember, this IS a kakistocracy and I AM the hogmaster
p.s. - ignore the TEd behind the curtain.
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(3) half votes get automagically invalidated; this has come up before I see, Mister tsuwm. In that case I cast my full vote for "E". And I cast a full vote for "C" for my sock puppet, Mister Plutarch, who has given me his proxy. 
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who has given me his proxyI hope there's an anecdote[sic]... 
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