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minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down1·2 years agoNine out of ten hatters recommend that you don’t do this. The tenth hatter purple monkey dishwasher. (Victorian-era hat makers were notorious for going mad because they used mercury to treat felt cloth.)
minus-squareovercast5348@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoIs this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoCould have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI think the original idiom was “mad as a hatter” which was eventually shortened to “mad hatter”, possibly due to the Alice in Wonderland character.
minus-squareTaniwha420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoI thought it was the vapours from using mercury inside that got them.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoIt’s so much harder believing in six impossible things before breakfast when you’re allergic to quicksilver.
Nine out of ten hatters recommend that you don’t do this. The tenth hatter purple monkey dishwasher.
(Victorian-era hat makers were notorious for going mad because they used mercury to treat felt cloth.)
Is this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
Could have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
I think the original idiom was “mad as a hatter” which was eventually shortened to “mad hatter”, possibly due to the Alice in Wonderland character.
I thought it was the vapours from using mercury inside that got them.
It’s so much harder believing in six impossible things before breakfast when you’re allergic to quicksilver.