[Humour] Joke du jour

[smillie's garden]

Despite operating in a small and unfashionable intelligence community, many in the know consider O’Reilly to be an excellent spy. Yes, he is raw, and has a tendency to be down the pub, but he definitely has the potential to make the leap to one of the big boys. MI6, SVR, and CIA, among others, are understood to be keeping tabs.

 

[Seagull's Return]

I still don’t understand, though: how could one be expected to know that birds, especially relatively small ones such as swifts, are flying high? It’s in precisely these circumstances that they become hard to see. And - night? That seems unrealistic to me, unless the speaker had access to reasonably sophisticated night-vision and/or GPS tracking apparatus of some kind, which would naturally incur the suspicions of one’s neighbours in a small village; one would need a suitable cover story for such ownership.

Surely a better coded approach would be “Speaking as an unusually well-equipped ornithologist with a professional focus on the migratory habits of birds of Europe and the western Palearctic, some birds (probably Apodidae) are maintaining a mid- to low altitude between sunrise and sunset, largely visible to the naked eye. I notice you appear to be from the West Midlands, do you perhaps know Noddy Holder?”

The original is amateurish at best, and frankly I’m not convinced.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Despite operating in a small and unfashionable intelligence community, many in the know consider O’Reilly to be an excellent spy. Yes, he is raw, and has a tendency to be down the pub, but he definitely has the potential to make the leap to one of the big boys. MI6, SVR, and CIA, among others, are understood to be keeping tabs.

Are Chelsea interested?

 

[METALMICKY]

Are Chelsea interested?

Indeed. I really think our recruitment team ought to now just for giggles leak duff information to Chelsea suggesting that we are about to go large on a prospect. " Todd mate we need splash the cash quickly as word on the grapevine is that Brighton are about to go large on some bloke called Farrington from Feyenoord who's mustard "

 

[Albion my Albion]

From an old rock n roller:


What do your call a Cougar that is getting so old she needs hearing aids?



Def Leppard

 

[Sirnormangall]

From an old rock n roller:


What do your call a Cougar that is getting so old she needs hearing aids?



Def Leppard

But if it’s a Cougar, shouldn’t it be called Def Cougar?

 

[Bodian]

From an old rock n roller:


What do your call a Cougar that is getting so old she needs hearing aids?



Def Leppard

But if it’s a Cougar, shouldn’t it be called Def Cougar?

Indeed. The whole premise is flawed, because a Leopard is NOT a Cougar anyway.

 

[Questions]

Are cougars the same as pumas ?
If so then that would confuse a spy.
Maybe it’s all cryptic and puma means cat.
Cat rhymes with hat and Ted Roger’s once wore a hat. You can work the rest out yourselves.

 

[Mr Bridger]

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