Monday, March 1, 2010

Humpty Dumpty

Did any of you people ever notice that in humpty dumpty they never actually saythat he is an egg.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
And all the king's horses and all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

See? Originally, Humpty dumpty was a riddle. Here are some more facts:
  • Humpty Dumpty was a colloquial term used in 15th century England to describe someone who was fat or obese - giving rise to lots of theories pertaining to the identity of Humpty Dumpty.
  • Humpty Dumpty was in fact an unusually large canon which was mounted on the protective wall of "St. Mary's Wall Church" in Colchester, England.
  • A shot from a Parliamentary canon succeeded in damaging the wall underneath Humpty Dumpty causing the canon to fall to the ground. The Royalists 'all the King's men' attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall but even with the help of ' all the King's horses' failed in their task and Colchester fell to the Parliamentarians after a siege lasting eleven weeks.
Kind of weird, isn't it? They never say it's an egg

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