Because of picture books

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because it's a children's story, and they can't draw images of a guy falling off of wall and having his limbs separated from his torso?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

actually, its a riddle. the answer is that humpty is an egg.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That makes sense... Thank you random person for the new fact.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That was what I was going to say.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

hehehe. stole your comment.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

:( Haha. Yeah.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century. The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person. The riddle may depend on the assumption that, whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known."---Wikipedia

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So the reason why it didn't flat out say Humpty Dumpty was an egg is because it was originally a riddle.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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. http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/humpty_dumpty.htm

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Only eggs sit on walls... Duh

by Anonymous 13 years ago

many poets in the era were also artists, the poet origanally illustrated an egg to go allong with the poem.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It wasn't a poem, it was a riddle. There was no poet who illustrated an egg because you were supposed to guess it was an egg

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lewis Carol was the first person to depict Humpty Dumpty as and egg in his book.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

He was a cannon. For real..

by Anonymous 13 years ago