• @booly
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      81 month ago

      The wikipedia article describes it as possibly being a riddle about an egg, where the answer became so widely known that it ceased to work as a riddle.

      Alternate theories of the origins include various historical figures, a siege engine, and a cannon.

      • Xylight (Photon Dev)
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        21 month ago

        I never thought I would go down a rabbit hole about a nursery rhyme that is associated usually with an egg