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Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the King's Horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
But why would an egg-person have got up on the wall in the first place? Presumably because he wanted to be 'high', not low and bored.
Four outcomes can be identified, framed negatively: - Low and bored (from not climbing on wall)
- Low and shocked (from climbing, falling but not breaking)
- Low and disabled (from climbing, falling, breaking and being put together but not very well)
- Dead (from climbing, falling, breaking and not being able to be put together
There are two options: - Stay on ground
- Climb up on wall
Eggspert guesses since no epidemiological studies for egg-persons exist Snapshot one suggests why Humpty may have climbed, snapshot 2 why changed weightings would have let to a different decision. Nursery rhyme. See also  | J Dowie 1999 " Against risk" Risk. Decision and Policy 4: 57-73 |
The most likely origin of the rhyme is that Humpty Dumpty was the nickname for a very big cannon which fell from the ramparts of a castle during the Civil War. The King's horses were cavalry and the King's men infantry. alt file here
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