!!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together AGAIN.


The word "Again" defines as= another time: once more:anew.


Humpty had fallen previously, but this time they couldn't put him back together again. If he only hadn't been tempted to climb that wall, he might still be with us now.

Rest In "Pieces"

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Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

You know how those Dumptys are, they won't listen.
:secretservice

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Good observation. However, note that Hump is dressed as the court jester, and he was quite used to entertaining from atop the wall. However, incoming administration naturally brought in new King's men, and they weren't concerned with the tradition of egg shell reconstruction, because their mandate was "CHANGE."

Poor Hump, as Michelle's maids mopped up the Dumpty-goo, an imploring whimper floated through the courtyard,
"Si, se puede."

SOS
:usa

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YES! YES! YES!

:shockamoo

PREACH ON! [[[runs an aisle]]]

That is some revelation!

-Bro. Alex

Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

Of course the new administration could make deconstructing some of the traditional walls a priority, thereby minimizing the catastrophic nature of a fall in the first place. :)

Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

Where does it say Humpty Dumpty was an egg?

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I think he was a politician!!

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Egg only by popular acclaim, (including period illustrations,) and that it solves the originally intended riddle, asserts Wikipedia,

<<Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Nursery rhyme typically portrayed as an egg...The rhyme does not actually state that Humpty Dumpty is an egg. In its first printed form in 1810, the rhyme is posed as a riddle and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person; the riddle being that whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. >>


SOS
:usa

Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

Did you really have to confuse us with facts?
:christmasjig

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No, sorry. But sometimes it's hard to distinguish a rhetorical question from a literal question. (I suppose that's why we have "TIC," and I should use it more, too.)

Personally, I enjoy attempting to portray a certain mood with only words rather than emoticons. (Not that there's anything wr, wr, wrong with cheap emoticons.)


SOS
:usa

Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

I respectfully disagree with your new "revelation."

Humpty Dumpty not being put together again implies that that he was once together, not necessarily that he had fallen once before.

You would have to add to the riddle to get that interpretation.

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I have done a complete, exhaustive study (lasted about 2 minutes) of the Nursery Rhyme in question and I feel it is my duty, as a defender of truth, to point out some very important fallacies in the above quote.

Fallacy 1:
The word "again" DOES NOT indicate a previous fall by the happless Humpty Dumpty. The context proves that the word "again" is not defined as "another time: once more:anew." Rather the word "AGAIN" means to be "restored to orginal condition". A modern, and more correct, translation of the Nursery Rhyme would be as follows:


Admittedly, the above modern version does not rhyme, which leads one to the conclusion that the Nursery Rhyme is a coded message of some type (see Fallacy 3):

Fallacy 2:

The Nursery Rhyme in question is "Gender Neutral" To use the words "him" or "he" is nothing more than an assumption. Which leads us to Fallacy 3.

Fallacy 3:

Nothing in the rhyme suggests that Humpty Dumpty was an egg. Further detailed research reveals a rather startling relevation: HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS NOT A LIVING CARBON BASED LIFE FORM AT ALL!

My source: http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/humpty.asp

I quote:

HUMPTY DUMPTY was a gun.

Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

Dude.........

that was totally awesome!

:santathumb

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You think THATS awesome... you should read about the origins of a lot of the nursery rhymes we think are soooooo innocent. In particluar: "Ring around the roses". First appeared in "Mother Goose" in 1881, but actually dates back to the 1600's and the Plague which killed 70,000 people in London. There are two versions, both of which have sinister connotations:

Ring a-round the roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Achoo! Achoo!
We all fall down!

In this version, the rosies (or rosies) refers to rosy colored rash one would get when they contracted the Plague. An early symptom of the plague.

"Pocket full of posies" refers to the medicine and herbs people carried in their pockets to prevent the plague.

"Achoo! Achoo! We all fall down" are the last sneezes of the person and collapse of one who had died.

Another version (sung in and around London) used the words: "Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down!"

This refers to the ashes from the burning of the thousands of dead bodies of the victims of Plague that rained down continuously on London.

Gruesome, ain't it?

Re: !!! Humpty Dumpty Had Previously Fallen !!!
 

where are your getting the information from? that would be cool to read.

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Some of it comes from: http://www.zelo.com/family/nursery/humpty.asp. Hey, its raining outside, can't do nothing outdoors. Got things I could be doing in the house or I could be wasting time posting useless info on AFF. Well,....lets see...which do I wanna do? Oh...I'm doin it.


WARNING: The link above has a long list of childrens songs and nursery rhyme, many of which I have never heard. You know how little songs get stuck in you head and you just can't help but sing it? There is one listed (a riddle) that I pray to God doesn't get stuck in my head. It goes like this:

In Spring I look gay,
Decked in comely array,
In Summer more clothing I wear;
When colder it grows,
I fling off my clothes,
And in Winter quite naked appear.

Comment:
This is a riddle. Can you tell me what I am?

Well, can ya?

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Santa's elves, and the wild drunken "party" they have each year the moment that blasted sleigh leaves the compound.


SOS
:usa