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Ovum of Albumen
Can you determine the nursery rhyme being stated below?
Once upon a time there was this ovum consisting of an envelope of albumen, jelly and membranes which decided to moor its entirety on a parapet. Then rather suddenly, and without notice, the ovular succumbed to the Brobdingnagian gravitational pull. The result was that the entire embodiment of the paramount's yeomanry and herbivores were unequal to the task of assemblage.
Once upon a time there was this ovum consisting of an envelope of albumen, jelly and membranes which decided to moor its entirety on a parapet. Then rather suddenly, and without notice, the ovular succumbed to the Brobdingnagian gravitational pull. The result was that the entire embodiment of the paramount's yeomanry and herbivores were unequal to the task of assemblage.
Answer
HUMPTY DUMPTYHumpty 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 Dumpty together again.
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now that is fancy rhyming!
good one! (herBiVores)
Heh, good fun.. liked it.
Um...was I supposed to understand what I was supposed to figure out? If I was...well...let's just say...I failed.
Lotsa Fun. Do something like it again.
very fun but E-A-S-Y!
columbus, are you an english teacher? that was HARD.
i got it, not too hard.
What the heck?????!!!!!
I didn't understand a word of that???
Was I supposed to??
If so I better go back to kindergarten class!!!!
This is the first one that's had me stumped!!!! Good Job!!!!!!
I didn't understand a word of that???
Was I supposed to??
If so I better go back to kindergarten class!!!!
This is the first one that's had me stumped!!!! Good Job!!!!!!
Where in the rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty was an egg?
You know, most people know that Humpty Dumpty is an egg, but Arollin brings up a good point - WHY do we know that he's an egg? It isn't in the nursery rhyme. Does anyone know? If I weren't so lazy, I'd look it up.
Even considering myself possessing a healthy vocabulary, that was a toughie. Very cool, another like it would be welcome.
Oct 05, 2002
I agree with Arollin. Humpty Dumpty was never officially delared an egg, despite being subject to the common fairy tale assuption. It's rude to assume, it's like you're being shallow.
Well the original nursery rhyme is a
riddle, to which "Egg" is the answer.
Some nursery rhymes are based on
folk riddles. I don't know how you
prove that the traditional answer is
"correct" in such a case, though - it's
just tradition, unless there's a definitive
source where the riddle was first published.
riddle, to which "Egg" is the answer.
Some nursery rhymes are based on
folk riddles. I don't know how you
prove that the traditional answer is
"correct" in such a case, though - it's
just tradition, unless there's a definitive
source where the riddle was first published.
good1
Next time please use languge that us blondes can understand!!!!
Great teaser. By the way, to anyone who doesn't know it...
An "egg" is said in the poem. It is also in the title. Does anyone here understand what an "ovum" is?If you are in year 7 you should have learnt about it by now.
An "egg" is said in the poem. It is also in the title. Does anyone here understand what an "ovum" is?If you are in year 7 you should have learnt about it by now.
Sorry if I'm being a little hard on all the people who don't know if an egg is mentioned.
They meant in the ORIGINAL poem. Not the teaser part of it.
Great! Going to my favorites :-)
The only reason I guessed it was the "Ovum" word was the Give-a-way. Anyway, it was very well done!
Actually, I think in one of the Lewis Carroll books, it does specify Humpty as an egg ergo it as gone down as one.
Actually, folks, the illustrations by John Tenniel to the original Alice in Wonderland depict Mr. Dumpty as an egg and Disney(and subsequent animators) picked up on that.
extremely difficult...no one could ever get that. i had no idea what that was anyway. it'd take a genius to figure out and what is this thing anyway??
Excellent! I admit I had to come back to this one and re-read about 3 times but I finally worked it out
Lucky guess for me, as I didn't understand it.
Extremely easy!
Yet, the ovular factor gave it away and just due to popular Disney knowledge of the character being an egg.
Yet, the ovular factor gave it away and just due to popular Disney knowledge of the character being an egg.
Very easy, but I must disagree. The "OVUM" part didn't make it so obvious, although it was an easy give away, but the clever part was how "the king's men and the king's horses" were mentioned. GREAT WORK! Enjoyed it throughly!
extremely difficult...no one could ever get that. i had no idea what that was anyway. it'd take a genius to figure out and what is this thing anyway??
I got it! I got it! Great work.
I guessed...YAY It was right.
Love it!
as soon as i saw 'ovum', i knew it, seeing as I only know one nursery rhyme about an egg.
as soon as i saw 'ovum', i knew it, seeing as I only know one nursery rhyme about an egg.
Ovum gave it away instantly!!
Ditto cloughme!
Fun and easy
BACK FROM THE BOWELS OF THE DUNGEON ("BLACKLIST") AM I.
WITH NURSERY RHYME PRECEDING IT AND THE EGG,IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS A NO BRAINER, BUT I ENJOYED IT NONTHELESS.
WITH NURSERY RHYME PRECEDING IT AND THE EGG,IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS A NO BRAINER, BUT I ENJOYED IT NONTHELESS.
Easy one...but thanks for egging us on...LOL
Apr 21, 2007
YIPPEE!!! I got one!
It was easy but I enjoyed it. If I didn't have the biology background I may not have found it so easy.
Great job!!!
Great job!!!
I got it when you mentioned the gravitational pull .
Another terrible repeat from the past.I feel like I'm watching reruns.THUMBS DOWN!!!
lol.very easy..but fun..
jIt was the last line that settled it for me.
I really enjoyed this one. I didn't have to move letters around or break it down. Just sit there read it and think while I drink my cup of tea. Aso I got this one so that makes it great! Keep these coming I like them.
I thought it was easy also.
But fun!!
But fun!!
like many others-ez but fun!!!
Humpty Dumpty isn't in Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND. He's in Carroll's other book THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. Alice meets this live egg sitting on a wall and has a long conversation with him. As she leaves, Humpty falls off the wall and cracks, and the King's army comes to try to save him. Humpty is a great comic character. If you haven't read Lewis Carroll since becoming an adult, give him a look. There are lots of sophisticated jokes and word play in there that go right over the heads of children.
I got it right away, I think the title gave it away
Now that I've had my coffee...if you look it up in in Chapter 5, it is an egg that Alice wants to buy but it gets away from her and in chapter 5 "the egg only got larger...and more human" Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym for Charles Dodgson who was also a mathematician. Alice was a real girl he used to tell stories too. I've read the books ever since I was a girl.
I really like that one! Really easy though.
I mean chapter 6 for that second one.
I actually GOT THAT. I loved it.
Good One. I didn't read "Through the Looking Glass" only "Alice in Wonderland" Maybe I should give it a LOOK-SEE!!
Great Fun & challenging, encore please!!!
Good One. I didn't read "Through the Looking Glass" only "Alice in Wonderland" Maybe I should give it a LOOK-SEE!!
Great Fun & challenging, encore please!!!
It was neat, but the big words teasers never stump me.
woot i actually got it.
took me a minute but I got it . Nice one
THE SECOND I READ "NURSERY RYHME" AND SAW THE WORD "OVUM" I GUESSED THAT IT WAS MY OLD PAL AND BEDTIME BUDDY READ BY MOM.GOOD OL HUMPTY.... HOW MANY OTHER NURSERY RYHMES INCLUDE A BREAKFAST ITEM???
THERES: ' peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold peas porridge in the pot 5 days old" FOR YALL
YOUNGUNS, THAT MEANS "OATMEAL"...
OK I WELCOME THE BARRAGE OF CORRECTED COMMENTS... BRING IT..... LATER GATORS, KITTY
THERES: ' peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold peas porridge in the pot 5 days old" FOR YALL
YOUNGUNS, THAT MEANS "OATMEAL"...
OK I WELCOME THE BARRAGE OF CORRECTED COMMENTS... BRING IT..... LATER GATORS, KITTY
got it easy ovum/egg tipped me off assemblge/put together it was fun though
Yay! I got it! It was the gravitational pull thing that got me ;) Very fun, Excellent teaser!
Very well done, it could have been a real brain-buster, but it was way cool. Easy as pie, but verrrrry well done. Liked it a lot.
Easy as pie! ...in fact, it was easier!
But I still liked it alot, good job!
But I still liked it alot, good job!
This was a hilarious teaser! A lot of big words, though...
Excellantly well thought-out teaser! I enjoyed it, thoroughly! Keep up the dynamic work! It is too bad that LM and/or putumup and/or doehead don't contribute more to the Braingle site. Many of us would enjoy thinking about placing a comment on their teasers...LOL
It was easy but I loved it!
Easy, but GREAT!
Easy for the old story book reading grandma. More please.
No egg on MY face! Pretty easy for us in the 'older' generation. Nice job
wired
The title gave it away to me also, but I enjoyed your wording of the old classic. Thanks.
Apr 24, 2007
The sentence structure wasn't great. "there was this ovum"? Perhaps structure like that is par for the Brooklyn course, but as an example of English prose... I shudder.
I have an indefagitable urge to try this myself. (Surely unrelated to my insatiable competitiveness.)
So here I go...
____________
The superannuated dowager peregrinated her domestic scullery to the sustenance encasement system mounted upon the vertical containing spaces of said galley. She did this in hopes of procuring a sample of osseus matter for the enhancement her houndish companion's maxillofacial salubriousness.
Upon arriving at her provender, she ascertained a complete divestiture of its contents, and thus, her quadripedal driveler's appetence was for naught.
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I like words. Their good.
heh.
I have an indefagitable urge to try this myself. (Surely unrelated to my insatiable competitiveness.)
So here I go...
____________
The superannuated dowager peregrinated her domestic scullery to the sustenance encasement system mounted upon the vertical containing spaces of said galley. She did this in hopes of procuring a sample of osseus matter for the enhancement her houndish companion's maxillofacial salubriousness.
Upon arriving at her provender, she ascertained a complete divestiture of its contents, and thus, her quadripedal driveler's appetence was for naught.
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I like words. Their good.
heh.
FANCY I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK!
Super easy - I liked it a lot!
Sustenance encasement system?
How about "Victual repository"?
How about "Victual repository"?
This was cute, but ovum did give it away for me. I loved learning, via the comments, about the yolk of the matter, and Lewis Carroll's role in it all! I'll have to read some of his work someday.
fmgeek: superannuated, scullery, and houndish gave yours away for me. (And I sure hope that "Their" is a joke, hence the "heh".)
Dec 10, 2007
Victual repository - Much better!
And Qrystal, "their" was a joke, but I really misspelled indefatigable.
And Qrystal, "their" was a joke, but I really misspelled indefatigable.
That was the easiest one yet. The first sentence gave it away! Easy but fun!
I also got it right away. But I am curious as to why Humpty Dumpty is always pictured as being an egg. Who decided that he was? Where iin the nursery rhyme does it say anything about an egg? Could Humpty Dumpty not just as easily been a person who fell and broke all his bones and could not be "put back together"?
OOOPS ^^^^ Guess I should have read teh above comments before posting miine, it had previously been discussed nd answered.
Rather easy if you're familiary with this rhyme (and think of Mr Dumpty as an egg) but still cleverly written. Very nice!
Loved this one the first time I saw it, and I still love it. Very easy, but very well written.
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