Why is Humpty Dumpty Always Depicted as an Egg? 

It was a cannon ball....

@@niichigary8609 it was just a cannon

@@niichigary8609 the cannon theory isnt canon

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LOL me too but I do see one of mine over there too =) I don't do eggs though, mainly toy cars.

same

jaspr1999 Lol

jaspr1999 Then if I was setting on the floor, would I fall through earth?

Mute Playz, - If you drank enough, you'd sure feel like it. :-)

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No.

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per wikipedia The word derives from the Old English: fēowertyne niht, meaning "fourteen nights"

Cliff Hartle that's cool

Wasn't expecting a response so soon, thanks.

lol the reply has more likes than the comment itself.

that girl in okc The 3 little pigs joined a cult, and jumped onto a comet to get a ride to heaven. Unfortunately they climbed aboard Shoemaker-levy and were killed when it collided with Jupiter. Some say they live happily ever after on Jupiter, but it's really windy there, so I'm skeptical.

Mark Ahlquist Bless your heart. What a creative answer. Your creativity and humor in storytelling show promise. I wish you luck in finding your audience. 👍😄

I recently read that the piggy that 'went to market', didn't go to the store to buy groceries. I froze, mouth hung open, for several minutes as i took that in. ;(

Mark Ahlquist It's a bit nippy too on Jupiter. I say "on" but unless Jupiter has a solid core, you could only really say "in" Jupiter.

The poor wolf just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar.

It was a cannon.

Yeah. Just say you don’t know. This conclusion of a riddle made no sense next to the perfectly good canon story. Especially given the original wording. And the fact so many people were trying to fix the problem. Why would so many people even care about a broken egg. The riddle would not have needed that many to attempt to fix it.

Yeah... the story about the Colchester cannon was taught by people who couldn't read to their children in times when illiteracy was common, hence why it wasn't written down for over a century. In those days, reading and writing was still something that only the aristocracy or clergy were allowed/encouraged to do, so what would seem to be a simple nursery rhyme wouldn't have been "important" enough to write down. Bonus Fact : many Aboriginal tribes in various parts of the world (most famously in Australia) have a spoken-word history that dates back thousands of years and geologists have only recently discovered that (with allowances for symbolism), they are shockingly accurate in describing ancient landslides, floods and earthquakes among other events. ...I don't really agree with the "make shit up", but this was clearly an unusually rushed and unbalanced video. Just think, with a little more research and descriptions of working class environments vs. education, the script could have pushed them over 10mins for that ad revenue and they wouldn't even have needed to find a sponsor. Shame I'm so late with this comment they won't see it.

Cannons are true old world technology originally used as sound wave weaponry prior to the worldwide cataclysms which made for a "great fall" of many nations and, for the cannon, eventually a fall into disuse and obscurity as none of the new ruling class was ever able to reverse engineer the antiquitech and get it back online to use as the once formidable defence mechanism it once was known for throughout the old world/time.

@ASFP who in the world put eggs in the wall????they only but it one table or cardboard plus u can't also fix a glass its not only an egg that cant be putten together and the kings man couldn't fix the cannon on the spot They had to use special tools

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Yes. That's actually exactly how x-rays work

He refers to that and says it is unlikely because there is no written record of it. Though, that completely misses the point that most parables/stories/rhymes were not recorded until much later when a collection was put together por they were referred to in another literary work.

chacham oh right oops, I missed that point when I watched, I didn’t go through it all, my bad 🤗 Edit: Although I actually like the idea that it is about a cannon, it’s very fitting I feel.

Considering there's a plaque devoted to the cannon called humpty dumpty... at the location where it was intended to be stationed...I don't really care whether there's historical evidence for it or not, the people there certainly seem to take it as fact, and that's the most credence of any of the possibilities, so that's the one I choose to believe.

That still doesn't make it canon...

That means there was a cannon called Humpty Dumpty there (which was already an existing slang at the time.) It doesn't tell you whether the rhyme was based on the cannon.

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because if they were black you couldn't see them in the dark?

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Vaughan Ware probably to simulate a corpse, which are pale and white

Winding sheets. The dead were wrapped in sheets.

Babarudra, I know funny and that's funny. Very clever.

itsallgood today I think they’re wrong on their conclusion. Canon makes more sense with the original wording.

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busi magen.... we wonder if has a dong?

Craig F. Thompson Humpty Dumpty would say "You need TP?.... TP for my bunghole?"

Maybe Julius Ceaser then?

It seems reasonable to me. Is there some other reason Humpty would be an egg? I just checked and it seems people had glue back then. Wood, metal, ceramics, not much to break that can't be repaired. No Wal-Mart nearby, so everything was fixed if it was possible... but definitely not the clumsy rolly-polly egg.

but could it not be the case that he was a bottle of brandy boiled in ale? In such a case the bottle could have fallen and broken and the liquid lost to the ground. no number of people could repair the glass and reclaim the drink. Im not clear on why it cannot be the bottle of alcohol

It's just how riddles were phrased back then, read Squirrel Nutkin if you want to see more examples. There was always a 'Right' answer to these riddles even if several others would be equally correct

Stirling Stewart I think that's a good answer to the riddle too, maybe better. But we're trying to understand why Humpty is always portrayed as an egg.

Because eggshells are more fragile.

Twinkle twinkle little star? Hmmmm. Is the wall that Humpty Dumpty would have sat upon a wall from one of those so-called "star forts"? That would be interesting.

Then he'd have been pushed by some dame who then recruited a private dick to look into the matter.

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He'd still have a cracked shell, and maybe fall into pieces.

Egg salad!

Patraic Emery He would probably bounce off the ground and crush all the soldiers that were trying to put him back together again.

Right on!!!

Not been proved, and frankly, it doesn't make any sense.

Think it'd be more like: Dumpty Trumpty wanted a wall, "Across the boarder must pay for it all!", All of his forces and all of his men, And believe me, he knows all the best men, Not like when Obama built a wall, With all the worst men, That was the worst wall probably ever in history, But I'll get the best men, terrific men, They'll do a great job, you'll be very happy, And it'll come in under budget, Like when I said to Paul Ryan, "I don't care if the government shuts down, We need a better budget" Because they make the budget bigger and bigger But we need to drain the swamp, Remember when Trumpty said that? They said there's was no path to 270 And they were wrong, we were going to lock her up, and Dumpty Trumpty won 306 electoral college votes, But all the Democrats and all the DACA illegals, Don't want us to protect the country, Ever again. Sad.

Lol! Damn dude, great poem! You should put it on the wall

I came up with this during the 2016 election season: Trumpty Dumpty built a great wall, Trumpty Dumpty made Mexico pay for it all, Hillary Clinton withdrew what she knew, about the soldiers in Benghazi and the email scandal too!

Christopher Hollis Well that ones been left false. He's still trying to get funding for the wall, he's not getting it from Mexico, and Clinton's role in Benghazi has been greatly overstated.

"Couldn't make 'murica great again." - That's a wonderful sentiment. I can picture a world where America will never be great again, and it always brings a smile to my face - mostly because in my vision, leftists are being lined up against a wall and shot in the back of the head. Let's all wish for America to never be great again 🍸

tavdy79 much more likely as an explanation isn’t it. Particularly given the original wording as he mentions. Not sure why he went with riddle and egg as his theory in this one. I don’t usually disagree with his conclusions but this video did not convince me. For fourscore men to be focused on fixing something it has to be important and that ties in better with a canon that fell than an egg riddle.

To be fair, he didn't say it definitely wasn't based on this event, just that there is no surving written contemporary evidence of this being the case. Linguists won't say something is definitely true about a word or phrase's origin unless there is contemporary written evidence. So while this bit of speculation has some good logic to it, it is still without concrete evidence.

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