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January 20, 2017 12:08 pm at 12:08 pm #619061B1g B0yParticipant
Humpty Dumpty was an egg.
Actually the ryhme never said that.
January 20, 2017 6:46 pm at 6:46 pm #1210829👑RebYidd23ParticipantLewis Carroll did.
January 21, 2017 7:35 pm at 7:35 pm #1210830B1g B0yParticipantHumpty Dumpty sate [sic] on a wall,
Humpti Dumpti [sic] had a great fall;
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before.
This is an 1810 version of the ryhme.
January 21, 2017 7:35 pm at 7:35 pm #1210831B1g B0yParticipantHumpty Dumpty lay in a beck.
With all his sinews around his neck;
Forty Doctors and forty wrights
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty to rights
This is an 1842 version.
January 21, 2017 7:36 pm at 7:36 pm #1210832B1g B0yParticipantIn neither one of these is there any reference to an egg.
January 22, 2017 5:11 am at 5:11 am #1210833LightbriteParticipantHumpty Dumpty is a porcelain doll
January 22, 2017 5:12 am at 5:12 am #1210834LightbriteParticipantWearing a prayer shawl
January 22, 2017 5:56 am at 5:56 am #1210835👑RebYidd23ParticipantThe only reason anyone still remembers the rhyme is because of the character in Through the Looking-Glass, in which he is an egg.
January 22, 2017 7:36 am at 7:36 am #1210836Lilmod UlelamaidParticipantBig boy – go look it up in Alice in Wonderland. I’m pretty sure it says he’s an egg.
January 22, 2017 2:52 pm at 2:52 pm #1210837LightbriteParticipantIn 1902 he was already portrayed as an egg.
I knew about Humpty from nursery rhymes. Not any films. He was right there in my book.
January 22, 2017 8:39 pm at 8:39 pm #1210838B1g B0yParticipantLewis Carroll did not invent the ryhme. Therefore, at most his refering to Humpty as an egg is an assumption.
January 22, 2017 9:24 pm at 9:24 pm #1210839LightbriteParticipantIf we apply our Torah wisdom here, wouldn’t we at least agree that Humpty started out as a chicken?
January 23, 2017 1:24 am at 1:24 am #1210840☢️ Rand0m3x 🎲ParticipantIs there some reason you had to make a 2 threads on this
subject, and had to give this one a non-indicative title?
January 23, 2017 1:34 am at 1:34 am #1210841Lilmod UlelamaidParticipantLB- chickens don’t become eggs.
January 23, 2017 2:18 am at 2:18 am #1210842LightbriteParticipantA rabbi told me that in Torah, chickens came first.
And… you’re absolutely right!!!
Scratch that.
January 23, 2017 2:19 am at 2:19 am #1210843LightbriteParticipantHumpty had an Ema and Aba then.
What happened to them? Were they alive when he fell?
Were they waiting by the king’s horses and king’s men, davening for Humpty to be put back together again?
It’s kind of a sad story.
January 23, 2017 3:00 am at 3:00 am #1210844👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhat came first, the chicken or the red junglefowl?
January 24, 2017 6:18 am at 6:18 am #1210845LightbriteParticipantThe purple monkey wrench
January 24, 2017 12:14 pm at 12:14 pm #1210846👑RebYidd23ParticipantIt doesn’t matter that Lewis Carrol did not invent the rhyme: nobody claimed he did, and he did give people a reason to remember it while making Humpty Dumpty an egg.
January 24, 2017 9:15 pm at 9:15 pm #1210847MenoParticipant“Humpty Dumpty sate [sic] on a wall,
Humpti Dumpti [sic] had a great fall;”
Funny how they forgot how to spell from one line to the next.
Or maybe there’s a deeper meaning behind the spelling.
Hmm…
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