Humpty Dumpty

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Mr Jeff...

Just in case : that MM person Pieanne is talking about would be Mister Micawber who happens to be a huge fan of Humpty Dumpty (a character from a book by Lewis Caroll which title I'm unable to tell you in english) since he quotes this Humpty Dumpty character in each of his posts...

You may have hard time like mefiguring out the word of wisdom behind this quo

Have a look here: http://www.colorado.edu/pwr/occasions/HumptyDumpty.html

Humpty Dumpty was a character in a nursery rhyme long before Lewis Carroll -- or Mister Micawber -- got hold of him. The original rhyme is something like this:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

And all the King's horses and all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Guess you all got me wrong. It was drawn from an article concerning the health-care. I don’t know what Humpty Dumpty is, so I can’t figure out what that whole sentence means.


As we know, since Would War II considerable advances have been made in the area of health-care services. But we expected mounting criticism too, for example, the criticism of the large remaining gaps in ac

It means that despite advances in medical science, and despite the desire of doctors and patients to believe otherwise, some health-related problems simply cannot be "fixed." All the King's horses and all the King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again, and all the best and most efficient medical care in the world cannot eliminate pain, disease and death.

Thank you Khoff for the clarification.
I had no idea this Humpty Dumpty character existed long before "Alice's adventures in Wonderland". I had heard the expression 'all the King's horses and all the King's men' before but never realized it was somehow connected to this Humpty Dumpty character.
Merci !

Thank you, khoff.

Actually from the previous sentene
"the capacities of medical science are limited", I can tell

You know, sometimes we try so hard to explain the details that we ignore the most obvious parts of the question. Humpty Dumpty was an EGG -- a big egg with arms and legs and a face. That is why they could not put him back together after he fell. Does it make more sense now? Sorry we didn't explain this at the beginning!

I've also found some interesting background info about the Humpty Dumpty character at the following address.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhumpty.html