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Journal tuxette's Journal: Pekka goes to Africa 13

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(Finnish joke loosely translated from Norwegian, note: Pekka is *the* generic Finn)

Pekka suddenly inherited a large sum of money from his uncle in Helsinki, and decided he would realize his dream of travelling to Africa on a big safari. So Pekka books a trip and sets off on his big adventure.

In Africa, Pekka is truly enjoying his adventure. He sees lots of exciting exotic animals, and meets lots of exciting intriguing people. One day, he decides to go out for a hike in the bush. Suddenly, he is surrounded by a group of cannibals, who grab hold of him, tie him up, and drag him back to their camp. At the cannibals' camp, Pekka is stripped naked and thrown into a cauldron of boiling water.

About an hour later, the cannibals decide to check into the cauldron to see how their exotic foreign lunch was coming along. So as the cannibals peek curiously into the cauldron, Pekka looks up right at them and says:

"Can't a guy take a sauna in peace around here?!"

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  • Damn good one, but why are they called Pekkas?
    • Pekka is a very common first name for guys in Finland. It's like, every other guy over there is called Pekka.
      • Well, I was kind of suspicious, but Pekka did make it into the top-ten [helsinki.fi]. ;)

        The page is in Finnish, but it shouldn't matter. Just scroll down and you'll find two tables at the bottom of the page. The first one lists the ten most popular names for women (left) and men (on the right) in the 20th century Finland.

        The last table lists the ten most popular names in 1999.

        • Eeek, Matti is more popular than Pekka? I dated a guy called Matti once, when I was young and dumb...
          • Heh. Yes, there're plenty of Mattis here. Even our "official national idiot" [wikipedia.org] is called Matti. ;)

            Fortunately, my name is not on either top ten list.

            • Fortunately, my name is not on either top ten list.

              Heh, my name isn't even on the top 100 list in the US now (and forget about Norway), but it was relatively popular in and around 1971.

            • I saw Ville and Teemu pretty high up on what I'm guessing is the newborn list, any hockey reasons behind the popularity?
              • That's quite possible. Popular figures - real of fictional - have a real influence on the statistics.

                I guess that's ok, though I still can't understand how anyone could name their child as Ridge (not that common a name in Finland ;) after a character in The Bold and the Beautiful [soapcity.com]. ;)

                • I still can't understand how anyone could name their child as Ridge

                  Dude.

                  Ridge is still way better than Aramis, Shrek, Matrix, Ra (or Amon-Re), Ozzi, In, Filareta Dolcetta, Trinity, Cesar, Vladlen...

                • name their child as Ridge

                  Back at university, a friend of mine told me that in a certain remote area of Norway, he knew a girl with the name Fallon Anita, named after one of the characters in Dynasty [freeservers.com], which was a prime-time event in the eighties in Norway. It is beyond my comprehension that parents would do that to their kids :-/

                  The Bold and the Beautiful

                  East Enders [bbc.co.uk] kicks The Bold and the Beautiful's ass any day! According to Tuxette [slashdot.org], that is. At least, that's what she keeps telling me. Not that I w

                  • I've always suspected that if there was hell, it won't be fire or brimstone or anything silly like that.

                    It will be about having to live as a character in a soap episode that just keeps on going and going. You end up being stuck forever in a place where people act in a horribly wooden way, die in a dramatic way only to be miraculously resurrected later, have evil twins and agonize over issues (?) like "Oooh... will Vicky get over Tommy" or "Who deserves a good woman the most?".

                    Aagh! I'm already feeling l

                    • Well, if you get stuck in East Enders, you could always go to The Vic and drown your troubles away. Though I suppose that since it's hell, they would have sold their last pint the moment you walk in...

  • Heh (Score:2)

    by daniil ( 775990 ) *
    So, these two Finnish guys, Jussi and Pekka are watching the news on YLE TV. Apparently, a man has climbed to the top of the TV tower and is threatening to jump. Jussi says: "Bet you a hundred Euros that he'll jump." Pekka says: "No, he won't." So they make the bet. Seconds later, the man jumps. Pekka sighs, takes out his wallet and gives Jussi 100 Euros. Jussi says: "You know, you can keep your money. I already saw this earlier and saw him jump." Pekka says: "Yeah, so did i, but i didn't believe he'd be th

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