...seriously. This morning I was reading Ariana an original Mother Goose book I got when I was 2, and I read this poem, familiar to us all:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

There is nothing in this poem nor it's title that suggests that Humpty was an egg. There are some other nursery rhymes that are pretty disturbing: babies falling out of trees, children being ravished by the plague, children splitting their heads open while doing chores, thieving children being beaten by their parents, blackbirds biting off noses, children being burned alive in house fires, giant man-eating snails, psychotic children who drown small animals, children drowning in frozen lakes... Why is Humpty Dumpty an egg instead of a person? Why isn't it a person that falls to their untimely demise, splattering entrails so far and wide that they cannot be found? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that a person has met a disgusting end in a poem written for small children.