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Debate rages after author dares to claim ‘Humpty Dumpty’ isn’t an egg | New York Post
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0:46Now PlayingHumpty Dumpty is not what he’s cracked up to be, according to one childhood dream killer.
Popular YA author Holly Bourne scrambled the brains of many a social media watchdog Monday — by tweeting that the classic nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty is not an egg.
“Who decided Humpty Dumpty was an egg?” the Brit-born Bourne, 36, asked in her incendiary tweet, racking up nearly a half-million views on the platform.
“Its not in the lyrics, and deciding he’s a giant egg is quite a random leap for someone to make, and everyone else being like, ‘yeah, a giant egg on a wall. Of course.'”
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