humpty

What scares me is Humpty Dumpty -- where in that rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

As Humpty Dumpty would put it, it means exactly what the speaker wants it to mean, no more, no less.

But while Humpty insists that he must tell Alice what he means, we can see that he needn't.

It's perfectly legal to discriminate against white and East Asian men, thanks to our Humpty Dumpty court system.

The NSA's mass surveillance has been brought to light by a former contractor; the secret is blown, the cat's out of the bag, and Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall already.

In these cases, it takes all the kings horses and all the kings men to put humpty dumpty back together again.

Later, I learned how to draw and animate horrible looking sprites that dance (well, looked more like the Humpty Dance).

Do you have a reference for that, or are you Humpty Dumptying?

Imagine all the egg on Humpty Dumpty when he fell.

That's what I say!' 'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?' 'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased.

> The NSA's mass surveillance has been brought to light by a former contractor; the secret is blown, the cat's out of the bag, and Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall already.

Once you introduce so much entropy into a system the genie is out of the bottle.of course this isn't exactly thermodynamics but I can say it this way -- putting humpty dumpty together again is different than figuring out how to make humpty give you more food for decades.

Or are you an all out Humpty-Dumpty-ist ("when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, not more or less")?

Of course, arbitrarily humpty-dumpty incorrect usage will confuse listeners, but the style guide fusses about what "acronym" and "alternative" mean, strictly and technically.

Could Humpty Dumpty say "I like ice cream" and mean "atoms are actually divisible"?

Humpty isn't really about using words _loosely_: "'If you can see whether I'm singing or not, you've sharper eyes than most,' Humpty Dumpty remarked severely." If you think "Alice In Wonderland" is boring, you're missing out.

BTW, can we also get the 'The Humpty-Dumpty Guide to Functional Programming' which is as vague as OOP.