Two fellows are at the fair in a village in France. One of the rides is a tethered balloon that lets you see from 100 feet in the air, so they get tickets.
As they are in the balloon, the tether breaks and they ascend into the clouds, drifting in the wind. An hour later, the balloon starts to descend. They see a man walking down a road with his dog. As they get closer to the man, they shout down, "Sir! Where are we?"
Startled, the man looks into the sky, sees the balloon, and shouts back, "You're in a balloon! "
One fellow turns to the other and says, "wouldn't you know, we get lost in the countryside and the first Person we come upon is a lawyer?"
His friend asks, "What makes you say that?"
"Well," he replies, "what he has told us is precisely correct, and of no earthly value whatsoever. "