THIS JUST IN (from Mike K:)

Humpty Dumpty was a colloquial term used in 15th century England to describe
someone who was fat or obese - giving rise to lots of theories pertaining to
the identity of Humpty Dumpty. However, in this case the question should be
not Who was Humpty Dumpty but What was Humpty Dumpty? Humpty Dumpty was in
fact an unusually large canon which was mounted on the protective wall of
"St. Mary's Wall Church" in Colchester, England. It was intended to protect
the Parliamentarian stronghold of Colchester which was in the temporarily in
control of the Royalists during the period of English history, described as
the English Civil War ( 1642 - 1649). A shot from a Parliamentary canon
succeeded in damaging the wall underneath Humpty Dumpty causing the canon to fall to the ground. The Royalists 'all the King's men' attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall but even with the help of ' all the King's horses' failed in their task and Colchester fell to the
Parliamentarians after a siege lasting eleven weeks.

Okay, now I get it. In the book I had Humpty Dumpty was an egg with legs and a crown.

01 October 2005 - 11:37 AM

Well, it's official: I am completely melted into a puddle on the floor and I am just not sure if I will ever return to normal.

Someone please help.

Also, in the nursery rhyme about humpty dumpty...I'm not all that clear on why they thought all the king's horses would have been an effective help in cleaning up the remains of a broken egg anyway.

Here is a really blurry camera phone picture of a rainbow in the weird fire sky taken from my office window

30 September 2005 - 4:02 PM

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