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We're all mad here... [Oct. 30th, 2006|08:26 am]
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Mental disorders were common in the hat trade of the 14th century. This was due tot eh effects of mercurial nitrate which was used in treating felt. For example: Robert Crab of Chesham became eccentric and gave all he ownedto the poor. Lewis Carroll popularized this phenmenon by featuring a Mad Hatter in his Alice in Wonderland, which was written in 1865.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=3AmTCVqyZR4&feature=Views&page=3&t=t&f=b

LOL. Old clips of tv shows can be funny.
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[User Picture]From: lilpenguingurl1
2006-10-30 02:35 pm (UTC)
YEAAAAH for crazy people... (i'm a psych major)
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:26 pm (UTC)
lol. ;) So crazy folk are your livelihood!
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From: margann
2006-10-30 02:46 pm (UTC)
which is why i love to say mad as a hatter!
i went to high school with a kind of dim kid who broke open a shitload of thermometers in lab and drank the mercury to impress his friends.

yeah, he's in an asylum now.
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[User Picture]From: jenm
2006-10-30 11:55 pm (UTC)
Omg. That's terrible!
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From: skittish_derby
2006-10-30 03:33 pm (UTC)
that is my favorite book in the whole wide world.

<3
me
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:28 pm (UTC)
Awww. :) It's a good one.
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[User Picture]From: xenaamazon
2006-10-30 03:41 pm (UTC)

Crazy.

We are all crazy in our own way, lol.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:28 pm (UTC)

Re: Crazy.

Yes, but crazy like a mad hatter?
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From: wupperware
2006-10-30 04:32 pm (UTC)
I think I have urban, can the doctor help me at all?

and <3 alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:29 pm (UTC)
LOL. Isnt' that fab? hehe.

And it's good stuff.
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[User Picture]From: poop_on_a_stick
2006-10-30 04:43 pm (UTC)
i JUSR read "alice's adventures in wonderland" like....two days ago. It'd been too long...
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:29 pm (UTC)
ooh! Good timing. :)
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[User Picture]From: frontdoorangel
2006-10-30 06:06 pm (UTC)
That is awesome. I have never heard of that before. I wonder what people thought made Hatters a little crazy. It isn't like they could have known at the time that it was the chemical that was doing it.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:31 pm (UTC)
That's a good point. *nod* I'm sure that's how things were all the time back then, you know? Liek crazies left and right, and no particular reason anyone could figure out .


And your icon inspired me. Was she ever Alice? She would have been wonderful!
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[User Picture]From: zibacco
2006-10-30 07:07 pm (UTC)

A very merry unbirthday to you

I used to love playing with mercury drops in highschool chemistry class. They said it was toxic, but I figured that only applied to others. Then I grew that tail...
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:39 pm (UTC)

Re: A very merry unbirthday to you

And you!


And lol! Nice. ;)

Did you actually get to play with mercury in chemistry class?
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[User Picture]From: mornblade
2006-10-30 07:21 pm (UTC)
I think this is happening in the baseball cap trade today. So many young peoples minds have been terribly affected, and they no longer know how to put their hats on straight.


Happy Birthday, BTW (yeah, it was yesterday, but I'm late for everything).
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:40 pm (UTC)
lol, nice. ;)

And thanks babe! :)
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[User Picture]From: my_badgers_27
2006-10-31 01:49 am (UTC)
I so just learned about the mad hatter thing in Chemistry today. It was really cool
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:46 pm (UTC)
That's SO cool! My science classes never taught anything like that. Never the historical context of things or interesting tidbits.

I think I actually would have cared if they had. lol
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[User Picture]From: reenie72
2006-10-31 02:24 am (UTC)
And while we're on the subject, happy unbirthday!
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:46 pm (UTC)
Thanks muchly! ;)
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[User Picture]From: fantasy_fanatic
2006-10-31 06:27 am (UTC)
thats really interesting...sweet!
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:48 pm (UTC)
I thought so! :)
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[User Picture]From: deadahead
2006-10-31 07:11 am (UTC)
Awesome Fact To Know and Tell
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-10-31 02:49 pm (UTC)
Agreed! :)
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