Is Humpty Dumpty an Egg?

WhimSock · 06-09-2012 01:29AM

I see the Egg Advisory Board has gotten to you too :mad:

dodderangler · 06-09-2012 01:30AM

ArtSmart wrote: »

dodderangler wrote: »

He didn't crack mate
He was just a mad yoke

he was a mad joke that finally cracked?

wait, arent we (you) just stealing someone else's joke?

**** did someone already say mad yoke
Bollox
My bad

ArtSmart · 06-09-2012 01:32AM

brummytom wrote: »

Nah, he was definitely depressed. People spent all their time around him walking on eggshells. When he needed help, his friends just scrambled.

it was his tough, hard boiled attitude. any time he was in a pickle and someone a-poached the subject, he cracked.

Fart · 06-09-2012 01:32AM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

True, and here is the evidence of his cuntishness!

Why are his testicles under his mouth?

ArtSmart · 06-09-2012 01:33AM

dodderangler wrote: »

**** did someone already say mad yoke
Bollox
My bad

no. i was just jealous. sorry.

Topper Harley · 06-09-2012 01:33AM

bfocusd wrote: »

Just watch puss in boots, humpty dumptys actually really evil, he deserved to fall of the wall, I wouldn't of put his ignorant ass back together either

No, he was just misunderstood but he did the right thing in the end. However I did notice some differences between Puss' beginnings and what he later claimed in Shrek 2 about his mother being sick and his father living off the garbage. He's the one to watch out for, he's up to something!

Maedbhish wrote: »

What I don't get is how "All the King's horses" put him back together.. Have you ever tried fixing something with hooves??

Well they couldn't, but the real question is why would horses try to put an egg back together? Stupid horses. That's not what they're there for. Off to the knacker's yard with them.

dodderangler · 06-09-2012 01:34AM

ArtSmart wrote: »

dodderangler wrote: »

**** did someone already say mad yoke
Bollox
My bad

no. i was just jealous. sorry.

Yesss I win

ArtSmart · 06-09-2012 01:34AM

Topper Harley wrote: »

No, he was just misunderstood but he did the right thing in the end. However I did notice some differences between Puss' beginnings and what he later claimed in Shrek 2 about his mother being sick and his father living off the garbage. He's the one to watch out for, he's up to something!

Well they couldn't, but the real question is why would horses try to put an egg back together? Stupid horses. That's not what they're there for. Off to the knacker's yard with them.

a little south you say?

ArtSmart · 06-09-2012 01:35AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Yesss I win

easy tiger, the competition is still on...

Sharpshooter · 06-09-2012 01:38AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

He was an egg fired out of a cannon.

RikkFlair wrote: »

MMM....I'm gonna whip me up an omelette

Good luck with that because by the time you pick out all the bits of shell even salmonella wouldn't eat it!

ArtSmart · 06-09-2012 01:41AM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Good luck with that because by the time you pick out all the bits of shell even salmonella wouldn't eat it!

hmmm. douse pwonts. maybe Sam and Ella?

dodderangler · 06-09-2012 01:41AM

ArtSmart wrote: »

dodderangler wrote: »

Yesss I win

easy tiger, the competition is still on...

Nope it's over I'm in bed going to sleep celebrating lol

ArtSmart · 06-09-2012 01:44AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Nope it's over I'm in bed going to sleep celebrating lol

yes me too. its a a tie so far though....

Topper Harley · 06-09-2012 01:49AM

ArtSmart wrote: »

a little south you say?

My mental health compass may be a bit off.

Sharpshooter · 06-09-2012 01:50AM

ArtSmart wrote: »

hmmm. douse pwonts. maybe Sam and Ella?

It's not a pun if you have to explain it...don't you geddit??

calnand · 06-09-2012 02:39AM

I always thought of him as the perfect metaphor for the current economic climate were in now.

Smidge · 06-09-2012 02:48AM

dodderangler wrote: »

Did ya know two mammals lay eggs?
Platypus and echidna
Thought I'd throw that out

Also a Platypus is one of the very few venomous mammals on Earth.

Topper Harley · 06-09-2012 02:54AM

mishkalucy wrote: »

Also a Platypus is one of the very few venomous mammals on Earth.

They're fuckin' ugly too. But I'm too lazy to post of picture to give you an egg...sample. I'll get my coat.

dodderangler · 06-09-2012 02:57AM

Topper Harley wrote: »

mishkalucy wrote: »

Also a Platypus is one of the very few venomous mammals on Earth.

They're fuckin' ugly too. But I'm too lazy to post of picture to give you an egg...sample. I'll get my coat.

They are horrible ain't they
Kinda like eh are you a duck or a big rat or a beaver
Make up your poxy fcukin mind

Richard Hillman · 06-09-2012 03:10AM

It was concept art gone violently and tragically wrong.

Humpty was meant to represent the working man, standing on his own on top of the kings wall but he had too much booze and fell off it. The Kings men and Horses (Capitalism) couldnt help him went he did fall off the wall and all his socialist mates (who fed him the booze) used it as an attack on the health service.

Topper Harley · 06-09-2012 03:17AM

Richard Hillman wrote: »

It was concept art gone violently and tragically wrong.

Humpty was meant to represent the working man, standing on his own on top of the kings wall but he had too much booze and fell off it. The Kings men and Horses (Capitalism) couldnt help him went he did fall off the wall and all his socialist mates (who fed him the booze) used it as an attack on the health service.

No, he was an egg.

Riddle101 · 06-09-2012 04:36AM

This came to my mind when I read the OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwAookPFWZQ

MadsL · 06-09-2012 07:20AM

iverjohnston wrote: »

At the time of the civil war in 1648, Colchester was a town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall.

During the siege of Colchester, the 15th century tower of the church known as 'St Mary's by the Wall' was indeed much damaged. This happened because, on June 15th 1648, the church was strengthened against attack, by putting a cannon on the roof. As in the story, a gunner known as 'One-Eyed Jack Thompson' fired the cannon. He caused a lot of damage to Lord Fairfax's attacking troops.

Thompson's success made many of the Roundheads fire onto the church roof and, sometime during the 14th or 15th of July, Thompson and his gun came tumbling down. The damaged cannon could not be raised again.

This was one of a number of setbacks and, on August 28th 1648, the Royalists lay down their weapons, opened the gates of Colchester and surrendered to the Parliamentarians

Got thisfrom "Myths &Ledgends" from Google.

and debunked as a hoax...

http://bshistorian.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/putting-the-dump-in-humpty-dumpty/

This story is being used heavily to promote the book, because it sounds so damn plausible, and specific, just as statements made by a bogus psychic can. The author evens claims to have discovered a lost verse;

In Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Eight
When England suffered the pains of state
The Roundheads lay siege to Colchester town
Where the King’s men still fought for the crown
There One-Eyed Thompson stood on the wall
A gunner of deadliest aim of all
From St. Mary’s Tower his cannon he fired
Humpty-Dumpty was its name
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall…
Needless to say, the local press loved it. But as you’ve probably guessed, and as this journalist reports, this story, this part of the book, and perhaps even ALL origin stories for nursery rhymes, are BS. But let’s focus on Humpty and Colchester. First off, this is NOT a new discovery. The siege origin has been online for some time (1996 in fact, more on that below). There are also serious problems with the language and structure used in the expanded rhyme. The language used is not 17th century English, in my opinion. It’s also far more detailed than any nursery rhyme, and is in fact a fully-fledged poem. Even if period, it would make sense only as an historical piece based upon an existing rhyme, not, as advertised, the other way around.

As far as I can tell, this interpretation of the story originally concerned Gloucester, NOT Colchester. That town got in on the act some time later (I’ll touch on this later on). It’s also completely fictional. To quote the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes;

“Professor David Daube, in one of a series of spoof nursery-rhyme histories for The Oxford Magazine (1956), put forward the ingenious idea that Humpty Dumpty was a siege engine in the Civil War.”

Yes – a spoof. No doubt a relatively subtle one for this day and age, but a spoof nonetheless. This 1880s review gives a flavour of its remit. Even if taken literally, the leaps of logic the involved make Daube’s a nonsense hypothesis. Iona Opie put it best when she said of this and other made-up origins that;

“This is ingenuity for ingenuity’s sake; but the inventor must also feel some satisfaction if, as with the current craze for horrific “urban legends”, he can watch his story spreading to a public gullible enough to repeat it in earnest”.

Lando Griffin · 06-09-2012 07:22AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Lars1916 wrote: »

Some snakes lay eggs, too. Do they?

Indeed my learned friend. In fact, quite a few members of the reptile species lay eggs. A very good documentary I would suggest to watch is Jurassic Park.

Also one must remember that fish lay eggs too.

MadsL · 06-09-2012 08:03AM

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Also one must remember that fish lay eggs too.

La-di-da cav-i-ar...? Or battered roe?

MadsL · 06-09-2012 08:11AM

An anagram of "is Humpty Dumpty and egg" = A Mugged Tipsy Pun Myth

Plazaman · 06-09-2012 08:50AM

Given the load bearing strenght of the average 5 foot stone wall as y and the ovality factor of an average egg as an integer which we shall call x and then the relative positioning of said egg on a wall be it

or

. Therefore

y^4-3(x^4)=-131
3(x^4)-y^4=131

[3^1/2 (x^2)]^2 - [y^2]^2=131
{

-

}{

+

}=131

expression (A)
the {

+

} is not integer because,

IF: x and y were positive integers then x^2 and y^2 would also be integers,
SQRT(3) is not an integer, therefore (x^2)(sqrt(3)) cannot be an integer

we can expand {

-

} again as difference of squares

{(3^1/4)(x)}^2-y^2}= [3^1/4(x)-y][3^1/4+y]
so we have - using "int" for integer and "non" for non integer,
[non-int]=non
[non+int]=non

So, in (A) we have, (non)(non)(non)=131

The fractional part of the first and second (non) is the fractional part of the root of 3 but the integer part is different so, it will not produce an integer.
The fractional part of the third (non) is the fractional part of sqrt of 3 so, it will not produce an integer when multiplied with the first 2 (non).
Therefore, these (non)(non)(non) will not produce an integer. But 131 is an integer.

It follows that our initial supposition about x and y was not valid and therefore we can conclude that Humpty Dumpty did not actually fall but in fact caught a dose of the gay from sitting on said wall.

--Kaiser-- · 06-09-2012 09:40AM

Here's a nice trick

1) Aquire French acquaintance
2) Get them to read the passage below
3) Fall over laughing

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.

Topper Harley · 06-09-2012 03:17PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Here's a nice trick

1) Aquire French acquaintance
2) Get them to read the passage below
3) Fall over laughing

Un petit d'un petit
S'étonne aux Halles
Un petit d'un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu'importe un petit d'un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.

I don't get it. It's just gibberish.

EDIT: Oh, now I get it. Very good.

06-09-2012 03:40PM

You have to wonder why they thought it'd be a good idea to let the horses try first.

Is Humpty Dumpty an Egg?

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