Humpty Dumpty is ****ing weird
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The only good Humpty has his sound laid down by the Underground.
Happens. Few years ago a buddy gave me some peach rings and said do NOT eat the entire peach ring, a half will more than do it. After spending about 4 hours blaring Elton John classics on repeat while watching late night poker and eating an entire block of Kraft single slices because I could see a very clear linkage between the three, I realized I may have not needed the whole thing. Couldn’t crap after that for like 5 days.
@Mr Janny's musings remind me of this story...
A friend of mine had a dog who somehow opened a floor-level cabinet and ate all the edibles while he and his girlfriend were out. They panicked and took the poor doggy, who was tripping balls by that point, to the vet. The vet said it was okay. He'd be fine. And that they should...
"Take him home, put him in a dark room, and put on Dark Side of the Moon."
A friend of mine had a dog who somehow opened a floor-level cabinet and ate all the edibles while he and his girlfriend were out. They panicked and took the poor doggy, who was tripping balls by that point, to the vet. The vet said it was okay. He'd be fine. And that they should...
"Take him home, put him in a dark room, and put on Dark Side of the Moon."
Another Humpty Dumpty theory - the one I had always heard - was that it referred to King Richard III (the humpbacked king) and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field - the culmination of the War of the Roses. This would explain the reference to all the KING'S horses and men. (No, this has nothing to do with Brian "The Boz" Bosworth, but it might be fun to include him as well.) Richard threw all of his knights (all the king's horses and all the king's men) into a gambit to take out the outnumbered Henry Tudor and finish the war but instead he was himself surrounded and killed as he and his knights were separated from the mass of his superior army - obviously unable to be put together again.
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My very first time in a dispensary was in Seattle. Went in to grab some gummy’s for a concert we were going to the next night and the dude in line behind us was pushing a dog in a stroller. The dog was laid back like a baby and looked like he was in outer space.
Sometimes dogs like that clearly have every note of a seminal progressive rock album already sketched out in their heads.
Having a child has definitely made me realize how dark some of our childhood stories are. Peter Rabbit is messed up once you think about it.
Red Riding Hood, Hanzel and Gretal (sp).
Cooking or eating children are the themes.
On the other hand kids can handle the spooky/creepy stuff better than they get credit for.
*I looked it up and the original Red Riding Hood had the wolf just eating the girl in the end.
What's the lesson there? Stop asking so many questions?
Also the beginning of Hansel is the step mom ordering the children to be taken out to the forest to help ration food and save herself and their father.
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How about the one where the wolf eats all the baby goats, and then falls asleep, and the mother goat surgically removes her babies from him, and replaces them with rocks. And when the wolf wakes up he goes down to the river to get a drink, he falls in and drowns.
What the **** is the lesson, there?
If you slapped "Directed by Robert Eggers" on that, nobody would bat an eye.
