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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.

#149389 10/26/05 05:02 AM
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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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#149390 10/26/05 09:44 AM
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Ooh. I'm tossed between D and H. I mo go for H.

#149391 10/26/05 09:50 AM
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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.

TEd


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

#149393 10/26/05 11:05 AM
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I like c, but give me a g.


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#149394 10/26/05 12:16 PM
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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 .

#149395 10/26/05 12:36 PM
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I think I saw this in Organic Gardening and Farming magazine. It's e.

#149396 10/26/05 12:49 PM
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For exotic musicality, C gets mah vote.

#149397 10/26/05 01:03 PM
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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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