The text is "originating in the s". My quote is found all the way at the end, under Bonus Facts. It's surely because of him that everybody things of Humpty-Dumpty as an egg now, but the idea did not originate with him. And it's pretty clear when reading Through the Looking-Glass that Carroll expects the reader to associate Humpty-Dumpty with an egg.
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Year Birth year needed! Please enter a better zip than that Password must be at least 8 characters, including uppercase, lowercase, and a number. Password needs to be stronger Passwords should match. Thanks For Joining User generated content in real-time will have multiple touchpoints for offshoring. At St. Mary's at the Wall Church, the forces defending the town put a cannon on top of the church tower and nicknamed it Humpty Dumpty. When it came under fire by Parliamentary armies who targeted the foundations the cannon was on , the tower toppled, killing 'one-eyed' Jack Thompson, who was manning the cannon.
Both tower, man and cannon were destroyed and couldn't be put back together again. However, historians doubt this is the real explanation.
Another theory holds that Humpty Dumpty is really a drink. The first appearance of the word Humpty Dumpty in print was in , in a slang dictionary, where it is defined as "ale boiled with brandy," with a possible connection being that strong beer was commonly called "hum.
DC Comics portrays Humpty Dumpty as Humphry Dumpler , a man with an egg-shaped head that speaks in rhyme and whose attempts to 'fix' things that he perceives as 'broken' always end in disaster. In the animated movie, "Puss in Boots," Humpty Alexander Dumpty , an egg with a face and limbs, becomes Puss in Boots' brother at the orphanage where they're raised, but his life of crime later makes him the suave cat's archenemy.
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