Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for November 20, 2024

Well, the rhyme says he fell, it doesn’t tell us why.

A catalyst?

Now it all makes sense.

Cats would never eat eggs that look like this.

Bet you can’t jump and land on your feet.

He’s allergic to cats. He sneezed hard enough to lose his balance. The cat will testify that it was not his fault.

Aha. Me was knews it.

It has been a great fall.

Tommy Sands: “Humpty dumpty was pushed” (available on YT).

Of course he was pushed. It was his parents pushing him to make something of himself. So he made a mess.

Humpty Dumpty was not necessarily an egg. I think he was a clay milk pitcher.