Humpty Dumpty

[Kerensky287]

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
and all the king's horses and all the king's men,
couldn't put Humpty together again.

So at what point did humanity collectively decide Humpty Dumpty was an egg? NOWHERE does it say he is anything less than a regular person who fell, after which resuscitation failed (probably because they tried to get horses to help, the bastards).

Also, I miss the Seil tag.

[Geminex]

Well, if you were human, you'd have to fall prety goddamn far to have to be 'put together again'.

I mean, yeah if you feel headfirst, your skull might shatter. But other than that, if you're falling on a flat surface, I'm pretty sure you'd end up in one piece.

Hell, is it even possible to get torn apart (as the nursery rhyme implies), by the impact when falling at terminal velocity? Cause I'm pretty sure it isn't, not in earth's atmosphere.

So yeah, probably not a human. Unless the wall was several dozen stories high and the dude fell headfirst onto jagged rocks.

Edit:
Or the rhyme's events take place on the surface of a planet larger than earth, with a much thinner atmosphere (Though Dumpty would still have to fall pretty damn far). In which case Humpty Dumpty and the King's men are all probably aliens anyway. I suppose if they were chitinous, they'd shatter upon impact when falling from a great height.

Though wait a minute, if the king's men are aliens, then why do they have horses?

[Bells]

So there is an actual possibility that the King Horses are actually an Equine Alien breed that could very well be capable of performing first aid.

What DOES get my attetion though is just how tall was this wall and why as Mr Dumpty there in the first place?

Are we looking at a possible suicide here?

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

So there is an actual possibility that the King Horses are actually an Equine Alien breed that could very well be capable of performing first aid.

What DOES get my attetion though is just how tall was this wall and why as Mr Dumpty there in the first place?

Are we looking at a possible suicide here?

It's possible he was scaling it as part of an ongoing siege of somesort.

[Geminex]

Which would actually explain why there were "all the king's men" around. This was a massive battle between two nations, or even two species!

Though wait, if it was a battle, why would everyone bother to try to help Humpty Dumpty.

Unless Humpty was some kind of hero? The Chitinous Chosen One!

[Bells]

Have you consider that maybe Humpty was a Spy captured by the King, and he tries to get away? Maybe as he was trying to get past the castle walls someone shot at him, not hitting but makign him loose his balance thus causing him to fall from said Wall

That would explain the interest of all the kings men, they were trying to save him so they could extract sensible information from him.

[Flarecobra]

Or Humpy WAS the king.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Humpty Dumpty is an intertextual collage of our own fear of misunderstanding and fractured displacement. By ignoring the images of the text you miss out on critical contexts.

[Geminex]

Shut up, we're just established that Humpty was a Chitinous Alien Spy-King, valiantly climbing the mountainous walls of the Fortress of Reptiliand Doom in the great Ulgurian revolution, before tragically being thwarted by the vile Reptiles just as his arduous, heroic climb was completed and he mounted the enemy's great fortification.


That is what I call an image.

[PyrosNine]

It's because he was an egg in the drawing that came with the first edition of Mother Goose's nursery rhymes!

[ChaoticBrain]

Wasn't Humpty Dumpty retconned as an egg when they started to tone down the nightmare fuel in nursery rhymes?

[Bells]

Because a live Egg (which itself is only a shell for a still unformed life within it) is not nightmare fuel enough?