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      74 months ago

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

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        44 months ago

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

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      44 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.