TED : Most Expensive Items

We always wonder what it is to own or use the most expensive items that humanity has ever produced.

Benjamin Wallace a journalist and a writer does just that and entices us with a video about the most expensive items...
He likes some of them and finds the others worth less...

Benjamin reviews the Kapi Luwak (costliest coffee), Bugati Car, Most expensive bed (supposedly owned by Tom Cruise), Most expensive Jeans, most expensive beef (Kobe beef), most expensive Golf club, Most expensive Soap, Most expensive wine, 1947 cheval blanc (supposedly the best wine).

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_wallace_on_the_price_of_happiness.html

The video concludes on an interesting note.

Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall

If you thought Humpty Dumpty who sat on a wall and fell down was an egg then you are sadly mistaken.
Humpty Dumpty was actually a giant cannon which was used during the civil war of 1642-1651.
In Sam FOster's book "hey Diddle diddle" he claims that the cannon which was present on the church in Colchester fell down during a seige.

No Wonder the following lines never made sense to me when i tried to relate it to an EGG !!!
all the kings horses and all the kings men
couldnt put humpty together again

(why should kings men try to put an egg together !!!!)



The book further claims that the song baa! baa! black sheep rhyme was a satire on King Edward for collecting wool tax. the rhyme divides the wool into 3 parts and one part was to the master(the king) and the 2nd to the dame (the church) and the 3rd to the little boy (people)