Posted
12/16/2004 05:01:00 PM
by Douglas
I bet you didn't know Humpy Dumpty was actually a
cannon.Humpty Dumpty was a colloquial term used in fifteenth century England describing someone who was obese. This has given rise to various, but inaccurate, theories surrounding the identity of Humpty Dumpty. The image of Humpty Dumpty was made famous by the illustrations included in the 'Alice through the looking glass' novel by Lewis Carroll. However, Humpty Dumpty was not a person pilloried in the famous rhyme!
Humpty Dumpty was in fact a large canon!
When you put it that way, the damn song actually
makes sense! All these years, I thought he was an egg. I feel so betrayed.