Keeping us undead
Keeping us undead

When Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns,

The continent of Antarctica had not been discovered yet, in fact it would be about 200 years before it was. This leads us to conclude Shakespeare was talking about Antarctica, and no one really wants to go there. Aside from the penguins, what is there? Ice, ice is there and a whole lot of it. No one, not a single person alive wants to live on ice eating penguins.

We believe that the best way to live is to neither go to Antarctica, nor Shakespeare’s undiscovered country.

But How! We hear you ask. Well the first one is easy, just don’t book a trip there, instead might we suggest a lovely vacation in Australia, the wonders of Australia are plentiful, as long as you avoid all of the poisonous creatures that live there. Whoa, are the lots of them, even touching some of them would take you to the undiscovered country, and we don’t mean Antarctica.

While in Australia, visit the city of Urangan. The gateway to Fraser Island. Imagine a seven mile long island that is only made out of sand! The water there is so clear it’s invisible to photograph. However, beware of the Dingos on the island, one pack of them will pack you off to the undiscovered country, which we are avoiding like the plague.

Speaking of the plague, don’t visit the Sassanian Empire in the 6th century (either A.D. or B.C. it really doesn't matter). Nor visit the middle ages, they really did not have good plumbing and disease spread like wildfire. Oh, avoid wildfire as well but enough about wildfire, back to the plague. In the middle ages, it killed 75,000,000–200,000,000 (estimate) according to Wikipedia. That sure is a lot of undiscovered countries. Now while avoiding the plague like the plague, beware! The French Revolution is too close by for comfort.

Talk about crazies, these people were it. They invented the guillotine and made people keep eating cake. Cake is good every now and again but the amount of cake the french revolution made people eat was just cruel, Now if you do wander into the french revolution, there are several things you can do to keep out of that ol’ undiscovered country. First, and this is vitally important, learn French, and make sure you do it right, because you don’t want to be caught with a funny accent. Second, don’t be French Royalty, it does not work out for them in the end, and boy what an end they have. Third, if someone asks you to have lunch in the Bastille, run away, they don’t have your best interest. This one is a but tricky however, if someone invites you to lunch on Bastille Day, that is a whole different kettle of fish.

In conclusion, just avoid everything mentioned above as well as not sticking any part of your body in a lion, you will avoid finding the undiscovered country and that will keep us undead.






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