Today is Wednesday, the 216th day of 2016, with 150 days left in the year.

Today is ...

Watermelon Day. Nothin' better than juicy watermelon on a hot summer day.

Overheard in the newsroom

Editor: "The score is 13 to 11."

Reporter: "So it's tied?"

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Senior producer about new assistant desk editor: "I can tell he's new because he's smiling. Make him stop, it makes me feel gross."

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Producer to stand-in anchor: "You must pray every day for [Anchor] to be sick."

Stand-in anchor: "I get down on my knees every morning, 'Lord, strike her down. Right, on with my day.' "

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Show Producer: "We can still get calls, but can't dial out."

Web Producer: "Can't that be reversed?"

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Reporter 1 to Reporter 2: "Who needs heroin when there's bubble wrap in the world?"

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Intern conducting an interview after the second time in a year a car went over the same 200-foot cliff and the occupant survived: "How many vehicles are down in this canyon?"

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City editor, who's trying to lose weight: "I was stress eating yesterday. I had a hamburger and fries, then a chocolate bar and then chicken nuggets."

Sports editor: "Man, I've been stress eating for years."

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Intern: "I'm very close to being done."

Editor: "How long until you'll be finished, you think?"

Intern: "Like an hour and a half."

Editor: "That's not close."

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Define this

SNOWCLONE

Definition No. 1 - A ridge of snow-covered mountains.

Definition No. 2 - A cliché adapted to a new use.

Cryptogram

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HINT: B=T

Answers

NAMBY-PAMBY - lacking in character, directness, or moral or emotional strength.

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A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

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