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Read The Poem | THE POEM NEVER SAID THAT HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS AN EGG | image tagged in memes,sudden clarity clarence | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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Put It Somewhere Else Patrick Meme | WE SHOULD FIND HIM NOW AND THROW HIM OFF THE WALL | image tagged in memes,put it somewhere else patrick | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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Very true. The poem had a politically satirical element to it, that seems to have been lost to history. Possibly mocking a king or nation, etc. Similarly, the Bible never said Adam and Eve bit an apple, just a fruit of some kind. Modern mythology developed it into an apple, just like Humpty being an egg.
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We used poems to inform children of various dangers | "RING AROUND THE ROSIE", NEVER MENTIONED THAT THE ASHES WERE THE REMAINS OF PEOPLE THAT DIED FROM THE BUBONIC PLAGUE BUT THATS NONE OF MY BU | image tagged in memes,but thats none of my business,kermit the frog,history,poem | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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It didn't really have to. They burned the bodies of those infected. The pocket full of posies were to put up to your nose to combat the smell of death and sickness.
From what I understand.
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Actually lol they burned the bodies of those infected WHO DIED lmbo ... important distinction. :-D
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I have always found the best parts of humanitarian history to be how we interchange the stories of how our ancestor remember an event in history. All that I think, 'ring around the rosie', reminds me to do is; burn the bodies of the inefected, while in an enclosed space.

@anona247 I would imagine some of the worst points in our human history is when our ancestors killed infected that could have survived in the name of, 'safety'.
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Well, as I say, when I were a lad, the commonly held view was that it was about an important battle in the English Civil War (1640's).
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The 'apple myth' came from a pun. From Latin, 'malus' means 'evil' and 'apple'.
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Interesting. The modern Italian word for apple is "mela" ... which means pun! (I'm kidding).
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'Malus' means 'evil' and 'apple' in Latin.
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Because. mmm. It was just a strange little kingdom. Close your eyes and go to sleep or I'll stop reading.
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it is about a big cannon
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Most nursery rhymes have dark origins...
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It's a city.
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At least, I was taught in school that Humpty Dumpty was a city. Some research on Wikipedia suggests that this once widely-propegated myth has since been debunked.
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Mmmmm.... no,
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It's a Canon that was used in a War
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Whoa! 42 leiks and no downvotes. Nice one bro.
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And the Oscar goes to
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Yes, yes the pictures always show an egg but it never said that he was
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Humpty Dumpty was a city. Therefore, he is indeed an egg.
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Parliamentarians knocked the wall out from underneath the Royalists "Humpty Dumpty" at Colchester and it could not be recovered due to it's size, during the English Civil War circa 1648.
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MIND BLOWN
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This is a very clever meme :)
I never noticed that the poem never said Humpty Dumpty was an egg.
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Humpty Dumpty was a person back then humpty dumpty was slang for a fat person
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Ole King Cole bought a fishing pole
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Had the best f**kin' omelet you can imagine.
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Isn't the poem about a cannon during a war. The wall the cannon was on broke, making the cannon fall, and Humpty was the cannons name.
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