Meaning no offence to Lewis Carroll
but you sometimes have to wonder...


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( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:10, archived)

Why wonder?
I thought such usage was already documented?
( JustHere, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:12, archived)

Wasn't it
'shrooms he was into?
(Active Hiatus, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:14, archived)

Whichever
hallicinogens were definitely involved! :-D
( JustHere, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:25, archived)

well,there is some truth
the "mad hatters" were actually real, in a sense.
in earlier times, hatmakers used materials that, over time, induced brain damage in a great many of them. thus, the term was coined.
(Rumours of Dinoadventures death have been greatly exaggerated., Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:34, archived)

I shall declaim, thus:
The walruss and the carpenter,
Crossed the sand, hand in hand.
"If only," said the carpenter,
"The law would understand".
(the_hammerhead_tart -- In love with a strict machine, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:15, archived)

Damn, b3tan!

( moonbadger _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:39, archived)

Oh bugger... I thought I'd made it up.
Oh well.
(the_hammerhead_tart -- In love with a strict machine, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:41, archived)

I remember it from
The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok from donkeys years ago.
( moonbadger _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/, Fri 4 Apr 2003, 17:49, archived)