Pekka and Matti have been at sea without any liquor for a long time when Pekka suggests: “Matti, shall we not make a hole in the compass and tap a little of the liquor therein? Matti answers him with alarm and reproach: “Don’t you know that you will go blind from the stuff in there!?” Whereupon Pekka stays silent for some time before enquiring: “Matti, have we two not seen everything there is to see?
(The names are Finnish, it may be that for the English to see the joke the two would have to be named Neal and Paddy.
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