Ever thought about what the heck that nursery rhyme means? Does it make any sense?
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.
Humpty Dumpty is usually shown as an egg. May be that's a metaphor, or may be it's literal. Either case, why do you need horses for the repair job? May be make crazy glue?
Also, why so much violence in a children's rhyme? (Jack and Jill is another example.)
But it turns out, there is more to Humpty Dumpty than a foolish egg who chose to sit on a wall. It's said to be anything from a simple riddle to a historic annecdote from mideaval England. Look it up in wikipedia.
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