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(2) Mad hatter- Someone who sells drugs and other illegal substances. (\"I'm going to go pick some stuff up from the madhatter up on Main.\") (Source: The Online Slang Dictionary, Walter Rader).- Mad as a hatter phr. [mid-19C] very mad, utterly insane. [the use in 18C of mercurous nitrate in tanning of felt hats. This was absorbed by the hatters, in whom the effects could produce mental problems]. (Source: \"Cassell's Dictionary Of Slang\". Jonathon Green. Cassel & Co., 1998. ISBN: 0-304-35167-9).- Might also refer to the Alice character. Also mentioned in \"Diamonds And Gold\": \"There's a hole in the ladder, a fence we can climb Mad as a hatter, you're thin as a dime.\"- \"These days we associate mad as a hatter with a bit of whimsy in Lewis Carroll's famous children's book Alice in Wonderland of 1865. Carroll didn't invent the phrase, though. By the time he wrote the book it was already well known; the first example I can find is from a work by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Judge Haliburton), of Nova Scotia, who was well-known in the 1830s for his comic writings about the character Sam Slick; in The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville of 1836, he wrote: \"Father he larfed out like any thing; I thought he would never stop-and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter\". As the author felt no need to explain it, by then it was clearly well known in his part of North America. Whether it was invented there, I don't know, but it seems likely. An early British reference is in Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray, serialised between 1848-50: \"We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks-until he was as mad as a hatter\". Note, by the way, that mad is being used in both these cases in the sense of being angry rather than insane, so these examples better fit the sense of phrases like mad as a wet hen, mad as a hornet, mad as a cut snake, mad as a meat axe, and other wonderful similes, of which the first two are American and the last two from Australia or New Zealand. But Thomas Hughes, in Tom Brown's Schooldays, used it in the same way that Lewis Carroll was later to do: \"He's a very good fellow, but as mad as a hatter\". Few people who use the phrase today realise that there's a story of human suffering behind it; the term actually derives from an early industrial occupational disease. Felt hats were once very popular in North America and Europe; an example is the top hat. The best sorts were made from beaver fur, but cheaper ones used furs such as rabbit instead. A complicated set of processes was needed to turn the fur into a finished hat. With the cheaper sorts of fur, an early step was to brush a solution of a mercury compound-usually mercurous nitrate-on to the fur to roughen the fibres and make them mat more easily, a process called carroting because it made the fur turn orange. Beaver fur had natural serrated edges that made this unnecessary, one reason why it was preferred, but the cost and scarcity of beaver meant that other furs had to be used. Whatever the source of the fur, the fibres were then shaved off the skin and turned into felt; this was later immersed in a boiling acid solution to thicken and harden it. Finishing processes included steaming the hat to shape and ironing it. In all these steps, hatters working in poorly ventilated workshops would breathe in the mercury compounds and accumulate the metal in their bodies. We now know that mercury is a cumulative poison that causes kidney and brain damage. Physical symptoms include trembling (known at the time as hatter's shakes), loosening of teeth, loss of co-ordination, and slurred speech; mental ones include irritability, loss of memory, depression, anxiety, and other personality changes. This was called mad hatter syndrome. It's been a very long time since mercury was used in making hats, and now all that remains is a relic phrase that links to a nasty period in manufacturing history. But mad hatter syndrome remains common as a description of the symptoms of mercury poisoning.\" (Source: World Wide Words is copyright Michael Quinion, 1996-2004)
It was a pretty mild fall here in Western Pennsylvania, so I've been gardening up to 1 week ago. In fact I just polished off the last of my kale today. I picked a bunch of green/yellow tomatoes right before the first really hard frost we had a week ago, and very surprisingly, they continue to ripen. They way its going, it looks like I should have home grown tomatoes through at least mid-december, which is pretty amazing for Pennsylvania. So yes, I still garden, but it doesn't take much upkeep if that's what you're getting at. I wouldn't really count it as contributing significantly to my daily physical activity, even during the summer. I don't have to weed, I water once or twice a week, even in mid summer, and harvesting only takes about 1/2 hour every couple days. But its well worth it, for all the really nutritious, organic food I'm able to harvest during the 6 month growing season here. 59ce067264
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