Who was Humpty?

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    B1g B0y
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    The ryhme never said that he was an egg

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    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    In Alice and Wonderland it says that he’s an egg.

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    Avi K
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    Some say that he was King Richard III. Some say that he was a siege engine used during the English Civil War.

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    twisted
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    The alter ego of Dumpty

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    B1g B0y
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    Lewis Carroll (the author of Alice in Wonderland) did not invent the ryhme. Therefore, at most his referring to Humpty as an egg is an assumption.

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    Lightbrite
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    Maybe there is an oral Humpty Dumpty tale that we don’t know about yet.

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    huju
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    Democratic-Farm-Labor Senator from Minnesota in the 50’s and 60’s, ran for president in 1968, lost to Tricky Dick.

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    The chin
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    Personally I think the whole song is a little bit gruesome to be singing to children in the first place.

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    mobico
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    What I want to know is who thought that the king’s horses had a chance of repairing him in the first place.

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    Lightbrite
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    Weren’t heart transplants assured something like 50yo, and now they’re permitted.

    The King’s Horses were with it, obviously.

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    B1g B0y
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    The Chin;

    Who are you to decide what is a gruesome song and what isn’t?

    Ring around the rosy is a song about the Black Death and I don’t hear you speaking up about that.

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    👑RebYidd23
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    Ring around the rosy is not about the Black Death.

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    Lightbrite
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    Ring around the rosie

    Pocket full of posie

    Ashes ashes

    We all fall down

    —Some internet sources say that it’s false. They are false.

    “Ring around the rosie,

    A pocket full of posies;

    [one of the superstitious ways used by people in the Middle Ages to try and fend off the plague was to stuff their pockets with posies (flowers)]

    Atischoo, atischoo,

    [sneezing was also an early sign of the plague if it was a pneumonic plague; however, not all types of plague involved sneezing]

    or, Ashes, ashes

    [the dead were often cremated]

    We all fall down.

    [most of the people strickened with the plague died]”

    Sewer History dot com…

    But if you want more academic sources, search it in Google Books.

    Check out: What Did I Just Say!?!: How New Insights Into Childhood Thinking Can Help …

    By Denis Donovan, M.D., Deborah McIntyre, R.N.

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