Spywatch
A little inside joke for those of you who've been paying close attention. I'm sitting by the pool about an hour ago, celebrating my own private Fourth of July and keeping an extremely close eye out for Russian spies--I was pretty suspicious of this guy in the middle distance with what I thought was an unusually robust physical constitution, often an indicator of elite espionage training, so I had the surveillance equipment carefully trained on him--when suddenly Igor surfaces right from the pool. I kid you not. He's cursing under his breath in Russian (at least I think he's cursing--he didn't sound happy) and if you can conjure up every last KGB stereotype you've ever seen in the movies and distill it into one human being, it's him. Grim, middle-aged, thick-browed, dour, cold-eyed, grey, and really and truly in the damned swimming pool. I don't know how long he'd been underwater, but it must have been a while. I should have taken a photo, of course, but I was too busy doubling over with laughter. No one around me had the first clue why I was cracking up. I figured there was no way to explain this in Turkish (or any other language, really). Just one of those little private jokes.
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May '10
Re: Spywatch
So - how do you say "I think it's funny when Russians nearly drown" in Turkish? And how would it be received by other Turkish speakers?
Re: Spywatch
He wasn't anywhere near drowning. I wouldn't have laughed at that. He was just having himself a little snorkel, I guess.
May '10
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Maybe his dead drop is in the bottom of your pool, and he was looking for an important message he was expecting, and that wasn't there. Something like, "Come home, all is forgiven." I imagine him living in a single room in Istanbul, forgotten by Moscow, waiting for that summons that will never come. Once a week he dives to the bottom of your pool, and is disappointed yet again.
Tragic, really.
May '10
Re: Spywatch
Claire, I'm not going to believe that anyone was at that empty pool until you post a photo that has actual people in it. Best if you are in the photo, as further evidence- tell the photographer to check his orange filter, of course, before shooting.
May '10
Re: Spywatch
Sounds like he dropped a hair below periscope depth.