Offwall
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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.