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.

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

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

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

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

I like c, but give me a g.

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 .

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

For exotic musicality, C gets mah vote.

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

Aw, F it!

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.

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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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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I vote that you did not.