‘Chockadooby’. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes

Easier to illustrate in books of children’s nursery rhymes. Because, well, without that? Just read those lyrics. We’re basically just talking about a normal guy who fell off the top of a massive wall, and suffered such brutal injuries that parts of his body were separated from… other parts of their body. Irreparably so. Try illustrating *that* for children’s book! #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes

And from there I guess it just… got traction? Made sense? Humpty Dumpty is now an… egg. Yes. Because eggs break. You can’t put *them* back together again. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes

It’s not until Humpty was featured in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’ that he was ever referred to as as looking "exactly like an egg”. But that’s Carroll’s addition, here. Not the original nursery rhyme. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes

Perhaps more disturbing though? Is that if you actually *think* about it? Nowhere (in any commonly recognised rendition of the nursery rhyme) is Humpty Dumpty ever actually described as *being* an egg. He sat on a wall. He had a great fall. Nobody was able to put him back together again. That’s all. You’ll probably find a picture of an egg in your book of nursery rhymes, sure. But it’s not in the words. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes

And I mean who would not find this oddly human-faced Humpty disturbing? It’s pure nightmare fuel. #80sAdvertising #OldBritishTelly