"Humpty Dumpty" had a great fall........Or did he? What really happened to that FAMOUS EGG? (I know the real story....Do you?
2006-08-14 16:38:26 · 7 answers · asked by ghostguff 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
He was pushed! I said, He was pushed! And do you know by who? It was Peter-Peter Cotton-Tail !!!
2006-08-15 10:13:52 · update #1
He did, indeed, have a great fall. It was much better than his winter, spring, and summer.
2006-08-14 16:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the egg reference came from Alice in Wonderland.
Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon during the English Civil War (1642-49). It was mounted on top of the St Marys at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against seige in the summer of 1648. (Although Colchester was a Parliamentarian stronghold, it had been captured by the Royalists and they held it for 11 weeks.) The church tower was hit by the enemy and the top of the tower was blown off, sending "Humpty" tumbling to the ground. Naturally the King's men* tried to mend him but in vain."
Or it could have been King Richard lll
"Humpty Dumpty" referred to King Richard III, the hunchbacked monarch. At the Battle of Bosworth Field, he fell from his steed, a horse he had named "Wall" (as dramatically rendered in Shakespeare's play "Richard III": "A horse! A horse! My Kingdom for a Horse!") Richard was surrounded by enemy troops in the battle, and was butchered right there, his body being hacked to pieces. Hence the final part of the rhyme: "All the King's Horses and All the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again!"
2006-08-15 07:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Rick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreperably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known...."
2006-08-14 23:46:29 · answer #3 · answered by mitch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't he end up breaking the wall he fell from? I think it was called Humpty's Revenge or something like that.
2006-08-14 23:44:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
humpty dumpty sat on the wall. then he fell. and cracked. and nobody could put him back together again.
2006-08-14 23:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by girl23 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the FAMOUS EGG got beaten up real good, then together with the other ingredients, turned into the FAMOUS PIE they used to throw into the face of Ann Coulter.
... at least that's what I think. I may be wrong. But don't sue me. lol
2006-08-14 23:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by annmohdali 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must have read Jasper Fforde's book, Nursery Crimes! Loved it!
2006-08-14 23:43:55 · answer #7 · answered by D'oh! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋