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#149388 10/26/05 01:32 AM
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Thanks, everybody who submitted a definition; here we go! I think I'll give a week as the deadline for voting; so by Wednesday, November 2nd., make your decisions, and make them well!

GONG FARMER

a. A man, who, in the Middle Ages, had to go into the tunnels beneath towns and castles and clear out the plumbing when it got stopped up; gong is from the OE word for dung.

b. A hollywood talent scout.

c. noun. From the Vietnamese French. One who shapes, makes and tunes cymbals used in Vietnamese music. After formier meaning "one who shapes a hat."

d. a middleman who can arrange for someone to be awarded medals etc.

e. one who farms genetically original naturally grown crops

f. slang,obsolete: a derogatory reference to a farmer who quit after the dinner gong rang instead of taking advantage of long evenings and good weather to plant or harvest.

g. one who uses drugs by smoking them; Cockney rhyming-slang, from "bong warmer"

h. A soldier who actively seeks danger, looking for the chance to win medals.

i. Collector of "road apples" in Amish country.

j. A seller of used fats and oils.

k. the timing device in a grandfather clock.

l. One who grows sunflowers for the seeds, usually to be used in bird seed mix.

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As the first person to vote I'll go for l since it looks like a No. 1.


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Ooh. I'm tossed between D and H. I mo go for H.

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Fong (rhymes with gong):

Yeah, when I saw those two definitions they rang a bell in my mind, so to speak. So to cover the bases I'll go with D.

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Since I have a reputation to protect, I'll choose to B wrong again, no doubt.

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I like c, but give me a g.


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I couldn't come up with a definition, but b is something like what I might have said (sure). Lots of good choices. i seems correct, as does f, but my vote is for f .

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I think I saw this in Organic Gardening and Farming magazine. It's e.

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For exotic musicality, C gets mah vote.

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Are two players allowed to choose the same? Then B. It's phony -- but, even in that, accurate.

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Aw, F it!

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I know the expression from my reading and realize I could've sent in a bogus daffynition but nothing suggested itself.

That said, I vote for C, and it's for me to know and y'all to find out whether I voted for the right answer or not.

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Well, I don't know it and I did send in a bogus daffinition. I vote for I, and if'n I'm voting for my own daffinition or not, well, "it's for me to know and y'all to find out" .

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Quote:

I know the expression from my reading and realize I could've sent in a bogus daffynition but nothing suggested itself.

That said, I vote for C, and it's for me to know and y'all to find out whether I voted for the right answer or not.




I vote that you did not.

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Well, I don't know it and I did send in a bogus daffinition. I vote for I, and if'n I'm voting for my own daffinition or not, well, "it's for me to know and y'all to find out" .





LOL! (love the subject line, too)

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I'll go for b. Good round of definitions!

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F...H...I...F...H...I...

Ah, what the hey. I like I.

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As the first person to vote I'll go for l since it looks like a No. 1.




as the last person to vote (so far : ) I'll go for a. since it looks like 'a' answer -- and no one has voted for a. (yet), and all the other answers have garnered at least one vote.
-joe (égalité) friday

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That brings to mind the time I waited until the eleventh hour to cast my vote. There was only one daffinition that had not been voted for. I voted for it and it happened to be the correct one! Stole tsumn's two points, just like that Seems like no one has voted for one lonely daffinition in this round. Who wants it? Step right up, folks...

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>Seems like no one has voted for one lonely daffinition..

you mean I missed one?! ah well, I still vote for a since I can't votes for two.

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> two

was two a choice? I didn't see that one.


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> I still vote for a since I can't votes for two.




Heh.®

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I vote for C

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and all the other answers have garnered at least one vote.
-joe (égalité) friday



Guess again... (I'm just sayin'...) [roll-eyes-e]

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½ point to WO'N for submitting the most logical definition that didn't get a vote.

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¡consarn it! one of us is an imposter..

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...or a doppelgänger, one.

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