Okay, so I've kept from asking questions about relationships, life situations, my interests, etc. but as random as it is, this one is bugging me too much...
In EVERY representation of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty my friends and I have seen, he is represented as being an egg (see http://images.google.com.au/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=humpty+dumpty for further example), but WHERE in the entire nursery rhyme does it ever actually state that he IS an egg? Why the heck do we all assume this?
Source:
http://images.google.com.au/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=humpty+dumpty
2006-08-27 04:05:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
yeh.. you got a point.. but can you think of something fragile that brings something to life?
an egg is fragile, and it gives life to a chicken or any animal that hatches eggs..
ahhh... sorry i can't fully get to my point coz i'm having a hard time expressing myself in english..
but i do hope that you get my point..
take care..
2006-08-27 04:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by hualabakanube 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that the original writter of humpty dumpty probably depicted him as an egg and it just carried on from there. The point of this nursery ryhme is to show that we are all very delicate like and egg and that if we live life on the edge, if we don't heed the warrnings of others we may 'fall' we may have things fall appart and even the most promenent people (kings and royal servants) won't be able to fix it for us. I do believe that the nursery ryhme has a longer version that people don't often hear, but I can't remember it.
2006-08-27 11:20:40 · answer #2 · answered by stangwoman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know, I never thought of that, but it's really true. I guess maybe people just assume it, because he falls apart into little pieces or something. And when people grow up hearing the poem, they see pictures of him as an egg, so they just assume that, and tell it to their kids....but I have no idea how it started in the first place.
2006-08-27 11:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by ₪ڠYiffniff ڠ₪ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. I guess because humpty dumpty sounds like an egg. Now you got me mad cause i can't think why! lol good question!
2006-08-27 11:25:17 · answer #4 · answered by thinkGREEN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you only knew the true meanings to most nursery rhymes you wouldn't tell them to your children.
2006-08-27 11:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by mom_2scotty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who cares?
its just a cute little nursery rhyme that was made to amuse children for 30 seconds
2006-08-27 11:08:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree ,lets now assume that Humpty is not egg its tomato,now r u satisfied ,stupid leave the kids with there humpty the egg and do smthing productive
2006-08-27 11:13:57 · answer #7 · answered by PAM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause that is what it shows in the picture. Also they didnt have super glue to put him back together so they all had a great big omelet.
2006-08-27 11:13:28 · answer #8 · answered by ncpeterpan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, never thought of it til now. good point! is there more verses to the nursery rhyme?
2006-08-27 11:10:18 · answer #9 · answered by FieryAngel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a kids book with pictures and the rhyme
2006-08-27 11:09:59 · answer #10 · answered by Biff Magiff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋