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Revision as of 11:11, 8 December 2005
offwall: awful
offwall: off the wall, zany, irreverent
The great fall of the offwall. From the Mother Goose nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty.
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Nursery rhymes are often told before bed, hence "retaled early in bed."
See later: Humptyhillhead.
Humpty Dumpty has also been assumed to refer to King Richard III of England.
The Wall Street Crash.
Humpty Dumpty: The egg (pre-birth), when sitting on the wall is in a kind of state of cosmic unity. The wall represents a boundary which by definition separates the world into duality (this side and that). Being at the position of the top of the wall therefore suggests a pre-dualistic existence (ie. like Adam and Eve before their fall and the feotus before birth). Once the egg falls 'offwall', it falls into either this or that side – and nobody, not even all the king's horses and all the king's men, can figure out how to put it back together again (to achive cosmic unity).
