Did Humpty Dumpty die?

[anytimepally]

What's wrong with puppy coats? I mean, you'd have to feed them all the time, but puppies are really warm to curl up with in the wintertime.. and they're always happy to see you.. none of my regular coats ever meet me at the door when I get home!

 

[CensoredAlso]

I've brought it up in another thread, but really, when you think abot it, most of these "little kid" stories, movies, songs, ect. Are full of death, violence. Disney is notorious for this. How can you have a worse death than falling and getting trampled to death after your brother pushed you off a cliff? I still cant watch that part of the lion king. If I do, I will cry. Its sad. Bambii's mom gets shot by a hunter, Cruella wants to make puppies into coats, I can go on and on with this

Right, the old fairy tales were actually quite violent and dark. The real ending of Snow White alone is quite disgusting and odd, heh. And Disney in a lot of ways did stay true to this. Somehow Disney got stuck with this cutesy image, but it's not entirely deserved. For instance, their early cartoon shorts were quite violent, like so many cartoons were.

 

[Pork]

yeah, that's true.

 

[Mistersuperstar]

"All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again"
Who, in their right mind, would send horses out to fix a giant egg? Why would a giant egg be up on a wall in the first place? Where in the Humpty Dumpty rhyme does it actually say that Humpty WAS an egg? Ah, the folly of youth.

 

[MrsPepper]

Nope, all of my research indicates that Ring Around the Rosey is not about the plague.

see here:
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.asp

Huh, interesting. Someone told me once that it was about the influeza epidemic of 1912, so I guess that was wrong too.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I don't know, it sounds like there's still a lot of debate about the plague connection. Different experts have their different theories.

 

[Mistersuperstar]

There's a nice explanation on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_O'Roses

 

[Pork]

hmm, interesting

 

[Ilikemuppets]

I think you're all looking a little a little to into this.

But there was an episode of Garfield where the people at "the network" wanted to make the show less violent so they used children's nursery rhymes, and each one ended in either tragedy or grizzly death.

 

[salemfan]

"All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again"
Who, in their right mind, would send horses out to fix a giant egg? Why would a giant egg be up on a wall in the first place? Where in the Humpty Dumpty rhyme does it actually say that Humpty WAS an egg? Ah, the folly of youth.

I agree. Don't we WANT eggs to break, because that's how we get at the edible substance inside?