http://www.thestar.com/News/article/188185

Weather seems to be the hot topic everywhere these days. The season has turned here in Istanbul but one would be hard pressed to differentiate between what just passed and what has arrived.

In response to your painful humour, I have one for you:

The U.N. decides it wants to find out who has the best spy service in the world. So it invites the CIA, Mossad, and the Turkish MIT to a contest. In this contest, a giraffe is released into a jungle and the objective is to find it the fastest. The CIA heads out first, returning triumphantly 2 hours later with the Giraffe. Next, Mossad takes a shot, arriving back at the U.N. base camp, slightly disappointed, 3 hours later. Finally, it’s the MIT’s turn. They head out and are gone for 4 hours…then 5…then 6. 2 days later, they still haven’t returned and people are starting to get a little worried. But on the third day they arrive back at the camp – leading a bear. The U.N. official is perplexed. “What happened to the giraffe?’ he asks, to which the the bear replies, “I am a giraffe.”