[4/25 disclaimer. In the constant upheavals of my life and the world around me, I’m now just picking random stuff to post about, from the 60 or 70 items in my ever-expanding queue — whatever catches my fancy at the moment. Don’t try to make sense of it as a whole.]
“… and a shallow nonstick skillet”: Wayno’s title for today’s Bizarro egg-related cartoon:
(#1) Humpty Dumpty has fallen and can’t get up; it’s omelet time in Wonderland (if you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Wayno says there are 4 in this strip — see this Page)
Ordinary chicken eggs are currently going for $12 a dozen at my local Safeway, so HD would be worth a small fortune.
This is the HD of the nursery rhyme, who broke beyond repair. Then there’s the Wonderland HD, the proponent of a subjective, or egocentric, theory of word meaning:
(#2) The Tenniel HD to Alice: When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less
And, even further afield, the HD of my 10/15/18 posting “The autumnal Humpty Dumpty”:
(#3) Paronomasiac HD, who had a great fall, with autumn leaves, pumpkin carving, and all the rest
In that posting, a section about Humpty Dumpty on this blog (with discussions of the nursery rhyme and the character’s appearance in Alice):
on 11/30/15 in “Rhyme or reason”
on 7/8/17 in “Words on a wall”
on 8/21/18 in “More bedevilment”
April 20, 2025 at 6:31 am |
I suppose that it’s just coincidence that the crown (one of Piraro’s standard symbols) is on the EMT’s cap, and it’s not intended to suggest that he’s one of the king’s men, but I’d love to be wrong about that. (In any case, “putting Humpty Dumpty together again” doesn’t seem to be among his goals.)