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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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