Remember Marco Polo? No, not the guy who discovered Asia, or whatever he did. (Didn’t he invent the shirt?) No, I’m talking about the game of Marco Polo, the game of tag played in the pool where one kid had to close his eyes and try to tag the other kids. Oh, it was a blast – not! I don’t know anyone who has good memories of Marco Polo. I mean, have you ever heard a conversation start up with the words, “Hey Bruce, remember that time we played Marco Polo in Roy’s pool?” No, you’ve not heard that. Having said all that, it was probably the best game named after an explorer…
Amazingly, Marco Polo traveled to the continent of Asia without taking a ship. Wait. What? Oh yeah, that’s because there’s no body of water between Europe and Asia. Yet they’re separate continents somehow. Really? C’mon. It’s been long enough. It’s time to take down the barriers between east and west. We’ve been blind – like that kid in the pool. It’s time we open our eyes and realize that we’re not going to unite the east and west until we get rid of the 2 continent thing. Call it Eurasia. Asiope? I don’t care. Let’s do it.
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