The most negative childrens nursery rhyme...
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Humpty dumpty.
Why couldn't humpty be put back together again?
Why couldn't humpty be put back together again?
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/humpty-dumpty-had-a-great-fall-but-dont-worry-hell-be-fine-1804870.html
and what's wrong with it being negative
wtf that is stupid political correctness at it again
It's political correctness gone mad!!!!!!
I don't know what it is with these accident prone nursery rhyme folk. Jack and Jill went rolling down the hill resulting in Jack sustaining a nasty head injury. I gather he got patched up, though, albeit in a rather unconventional manner.
but it was the kings horses clopping around, not looking where they were gong, kept treading on him.......and of course they weren't much help in the 'putting together' stakes what with them having no hands
As a child I had a beautifully illustrated book that I'd look at for hours.
I never quite 'got' this one - I wonder what significance this one had? The pictures were lovely.
Hark, hark the dogs do bark
The beggars are coming to town
Some in rags, some in tags
And one in a velvet (scarlett?) gown.
Rock a bye baby on the tree top is a bit sinister too isn't it?
It's all that yolk sloshing about.
Or was Humpty hard boiled?
Didn't have a Bupa policy.
Possibly ........................it must have had an effect on me. I never left my children on a tree top.
I never whipped them all soundly and put them to bed either like the old woman - then again I have never been forced to live in a shoe.:D
That's what you get for letting the Tories sell off the NHS.
Watch the very first episode of simpsons
The Simpsons Shorts - Good Night - Episode 1: http://youtu.be/E6IsGDQDXOw
Thank you for that. I can rest easy from now on ..........just one of life's little mysteries solved.
^ Is all about Bloody Mary's graveyard of tortured and slain Protestants.
Humpty Dumpty is reputed to be a canon used in the English civil war by the Royalists. It was a particularly fearsome weapon. The canon's presence alone would have given the Roundheads cause to fear attacking a castle.
It was placed on the battlements (a wall) and at some point during the battle something occurred that meant the canon fell from its emplacement. Hence the rhyme finishes "All the King's horses and all the Kings men couldn't put Humpty together again." The canon was put out of commission.
So the nursery rhyme has nothing to do with eggs. It was a kind of "You're not singing any more" taunt to the Royalists. But memory fades with time and meanings are lost. So when the rhyme was included in books of children's rhymes it wouldn't have been quite the thing to put a canon in the middle of a children's book. So an illustrator made the choice to show Humpty as something a nursery age child could relate to.... an egg.
Have a look at other rhymes..... Ring a ring o'roses... the plague and the Black Death
Half a Pound of Tuppeny Rice.... corruption in business
The Grand old Duke of York.... incompetence in the military
Sing a Song of Sixpence ..... religious division
Even Baa Baa Black Sheep has a meaning totally lost on the Liberal do-googers worried about political correctness. Read more here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4933345
Liberal do-googers will not be happy until they get their own way and everything is what they say it should be.
Sorry for being picky but cannon is spelt with two n's.
Unless you're suggesting the Royalists fired priests at the enemy?
The original Cinderella was called 'cinder-****.'
Cinder-sluts sisters had their eyes plucked out by doves on her wedding day
The frog prince wasn't kissed back to human form, he was thrown against a wall.
Or it's a simple typo and too late to change it now........ and let's face it, there's far worse examples in the not so hallowed halls of DS GS