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This is going to be a sleepless night

  • 10-01-2020 01:36AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭


    I'm too busy worrying tonight to do that sleeping thing I hear humans do. Anyone want to stay up with me and chat shyte?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Ok. Something I wonder is: why is Humpty Dumpty represented visually as an egg? There's no mention of this in the nursery rhyme.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    Well, maybe it's because he shatters when he falls off the wall and they try to put him together again? Like I suppose eggs do break pretty easily. Then again I'm pretty sure a human would break if they fell from a great height too. This is food for thought :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Ok. Something I wonder is: why is Humpty Dumpty represented visually as an egg? There's no mention of this in the nursery rhyme.

    Why was he so important the King sent the entire army to try and reconstruct him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Why was he so important the King sent the entire army to try and reconstruct him?
    Idiot should have sent more horses!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    Idiot should have sent more horses!


    What use were the horses anyway? I doubt they have eggcellent reconstruction skills.


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  • Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When i worry abut something i sleep well its the waking part i have difficulty with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Ok. Something I wonder is: why is Humpty Dumpty represented visually as an egg? There's no mention of this in the nursery rhyme.

    Maybe he was a big Lego man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Padre_Pio wrote: »
    Maybe he was a big Lego man.
    See, that would make sense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    See, that would make sense.


    Yeah but how old is Humpty Dumpty? Did lego even exist then?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Alecto wrote: »
    I'm too busy worrying tonight to do that sleeping thing I hear humans do. Anyone want to stay up with me and chat shyte?

    Come to me, oh human child, to the waters and the wild.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    Oddly intimate but nice song! I like the lyrics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,616 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    im only truly awake whenever i do sleep, im sleepwalking thru wakingife

    oh and the watrtboys stolen child is most excellent dude

    #humptywasntaneggandprobablykilledhimselfbecauseheidentifiedasananeggbutwasdeniedempowermentbysocietyplushorsesarerubbishatgluingstuffironically


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Alecto wrote: »
    Oddly intimate but nice song! I like the lyrics.

    Are you a bot?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Alecto wrote: »
    Yeah but how old is Humpty Dumpty? Did lego even exist then?
    Pffft... trivialities like historical accuracy don't concern me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    Are you a bot?


    I wish I was a bot, then I'd have no feelings, that would be very very nice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Pffft... trivialities like historical accuracy don't concern me.


    So historical inaccuracies not important but an egg on a wall is a no no? :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Alecto wrote: »
    So historical inaccuracies not important but an egg on a wall is a no no? :p
    Got it in one!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Alecto wrote: »
    I wish I was a bot, then I'd have no feelings, that would be very very nice.
    Do you have a nice bot? (Is what they meant I'm sure).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Do you have a nice bot? (Is what they meant I'm sure).


    Like bottom? They all have lovely bottoms!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    I'm up but no time for chatting, shyte or otherwise. I'm working:)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 63,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Have i stumbled in on a lovely girls competition :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    I'm up but no time for chatting, shyte or otherwise. I'm working:)


    Aww don't tease me with the promise of chat but then no chat.

    Have i stumbled in on a lovely girls competition :confused:


    It is indeed Grem! I'm trying to encourage the ladies to show me their lovely bottoms :D


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 63,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I like this plan!.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Always Tired


    A hot bath is the best thing to help you fall asleep. There is science behind it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭MoashoaM


    Al Cabone! Or what I call the skeletal remains of Mr. Capone.

    That's my limit for shyte tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,250 ✭✭✭ardinn


    Humpty History!

    The original story! According to a number of military historians, Humpty Dumpty was the name of a cannon used by the Royalists during the English Civil War.

    The conflict raged from 1642 to 1649, and in June of 1648, Humpty Dumpty was stationed on the walls of Colchester. It was one of several cannons erected to try and keep Parliament’s army from taking the city. The next month, however, the Parliamentary forces heavily damaged the walls beneath Humpty Dumpty with their own artillery. You can guess where this is going: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, and broke into pieces.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Alecto


    A hot bath is the best thing to help you fall asleep. There is science behind it.


    Your username is apt for this thread :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Etc


    ardinn wrote: »
    Humpty History!

    The original story! According to a number of military historians, Humpty Dumpty was the name of a cannon used by the Royalists during the English Civil War.

    The conflict raged from 1642 to 1649, and in June of 1648, Humpty Dumpty was stationed on the walls of Colchester. It was one of several cannons erected to try and keep Parliament’s army from taking the city. The next month, however, the Parliamentary forces heavily damaged the walls beneath Humpty Dumpty with their own artillery. You can guess where this is going: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, and broke into pieces.

    And now Numpty Dumpty AKA Prince Harry is waging his own civil war !


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