Where does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg?!
Question: The clue is in the second verse. Read on:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men;
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
**The unknown second verse**
Scrambled or omelette was the choice,
“Serve up dim vittles,” yelled someone’s voice.
“His death was not kind,” sighed one of the men,
“But I’d shove that egg off that wall again.”
Need any more proof - there it is.
Have a star and a great day.
Answers: The clue is in the second verse. Read on:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men;
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
**The unknown second verse**
Scrambled or omelette was the choice,
“Serve up dim vittles,” yelled someone’s voice.
“His death was not kind,” sighed one of the men,
“But I’d shove that egg off that wall again.”
Need any more proof - there it is.
Have a star and a great day.
He was an egg????? where did you hear that nonsense!
He's not an egg. He's my husband!!!!!
It's just common sense. Why criticize an old fairy tale. Just accept it.
wow, he was a egg, omg....i never know that,lol
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, all the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. Hmmm... nowhere.
Its the pics that they drew for the poem that dipicted him as an egg.
Humpty Dumpty is a character in a nursery rhyme portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
The fact 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 irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish & Norwegian; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
Mother Goose said it
On your mom.
the guy that wrote and cartooned it in the little book about it.
all the copies of it I've ever had as a kid showed an egg
dressed up in 14th century clothing and falling off and smashing
on the ground
cheers
(??RfD??)
i have no clue...
it just says it was used to talk about someone being "obese" and also was a "canon"
how do you get egg from that? lmao
no where, i imagine they just pictured him as that because an egg is a very hard thing to put back together
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again!!!!it doen't does it well when he broke that should give you a clue
The original Humpty Dumpty was probably a big cannon mounted on a wall during the English Civil War, and the rhyme still makes sense in this context. Possibly it was so named because Humpty Dumpty was already a common nickname for a fat person.
I think it was first portrayed as an egg in the illustrations for Alice in Wonderland.
To be honest with you, for the longest time, I thought he was a potato! No joke.
Your right! They never do say that he's an egg!
humpty dumpty was a egg husband now!!