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The Something Awful Forums > Main > BYOB: BYOB BYOB BOYB BBOY YOBB YBOB BBYO?? > why did the king in humpty dumpty think sending all his horses would help?
 
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:

Was about to say, at what point in the rhyme is it determined that Humpty Dumpty is an egg-man and how/why did that depiction get so popular?

Would make more sense if it was a statue or something, not a loving giant egg with a face.

One standard interpretation of the nursery rhyme is that it is a riddle. "Humpty Dumpty" was slang for a short, fat person. Obviously a person falling off a wall wouldn't break but an egg, which is also short and fat, would.

I would imagine that it was Through the Looking Glass which popularized the image of Humpty Dumpty as an egg but I bet that there are images pre-1872 as well.

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