Today is Thursday, the 220th day of 2013, with 145 days left in the year.

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Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night. Anyone who has ever grown zucchini knows it provides more fruit than one family can ever eat, so here is your chance - wait until the lights go out at all the neighbors' homes and deliver a few to each house. Honestly, it's the only way you'll ever get rid of it. I still have zucchini in my freezer from summer 2010.

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Late night chuckles

"Welcome to a very special edition of 'The Tonight Show.' The White House announced that in the coming days, President Obama will be reaching out to Americans who have lost their jobs. In fact, that's why he's here with me tonight. He's talking to me personally."

- Jay Leno

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"All our best to former President George W. Bush, who is recovering from successful heart surgery today. All day the media have been sending get-well wishes to President Bush. Fox News sent flowers. MSNBC sent a steak and cheese fries."

- Jay Leno

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"Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has purchased The Washington Post for $250 million. He said that last night, like most Amazon customers, he was drunk and buying crap on the Internet he didn't need."

- Conan O'Brien

Define this

Falcate

Definition No. 1 - To rid of waste.

Definition No. 2 - Curved like a scythe or sickle; hooked.

Cryptogram

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Hint: u = s

Answers

Zymurgy - The branch of chemistry dealing with fermentation, as brewing.

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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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