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minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81arrow-down1·10 months 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-up9·10 months agoIs this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄
minus-squarespittingimage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoCould have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months 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-up4·10 months agoI thought it was the vapours from using mercury inside that got them.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months 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.