• @overcast5348
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    129 months ago

    Is this the origin story of The Mad Hatter? 🙄

    • @spittingimage
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      79 months ago

      Could have been. I know Lewis Carroll liked to lampoon issues of the day in his writing.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        I’m kind of guessing the mad as a hatter phenomenon was known then, but don’t really know.

    • @SPRUNT
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      49 months ago

      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.