Lexie's Weird Wonderings

That is new to me! We say mad as a hornet!

We also say "mad as a hatter".

Is a hatter someone who makes Hat??

Why are they mad?

Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

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Is a hatter someone who makes Hat??

Why are they mad?

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Yes & Mercury!

Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm offbase on this one. From what I understand, hatters used to use mercury in their business (I'm not sure for what). Consequently, continued exposure to mercury would result in mercury poisoning which affects the mind & nervous system -- they go nuts! Occupational hazard, you might call it.

Jabbergah                                                    

Jabber, that sures sounds good anyway! LMAO!! Never heard that story, but mercury would do the trick!

What is the 'mad hatter syndrome'?

The term "mad as a hatter" has been inextricably linked to the madcap milliner in Lewis Carrol's classic children's book of 1865 Alice in Wonderland.

It actually relates to a disease peculiar to the hat-making industry of the nineteenth century. A mercury solution was commonly used during the process of turning fur into felt, causing the hatters to breathe in the fumes of this highly toxic metal, a situation exacerbated by the poor ventilation of most of the workshops. This led in turn to an accumulation of mercury in the workers bodies, resulting in symptoms such as trembling, loss of co-ordination, slurred speech, loosening of teeth, memory loss, depression, irritability and anxiety - the "mad hatter syndrome"! The phrase is still used today to describe the effects of mercury poisoning, albeit from other sources.

What about.....

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Silly as a Wheel

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Silly as a pork chop

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Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

Good old Google Search...

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.

How about

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dumb as a box of rocks

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stupid is as stupid does

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To late again.

I don't think I ever knew that about the hatters. I always linked it to Alice in Wonderland!

Well, puppy, you are over 1000!!!

Seems there was something like that with photography too. Don't remember what it was called, but had to do with making silver nitrate for the film?

Mad as a photographer... doesn't have the same ring does it.

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puppy, you are over 1000!!!

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Puppy, don't know about that. Could be but would it not have to be orally ingested?...come to think of it, I have known some pretty "off the wall" photographers!!

"Madly in love" and "Love you madly" are oxymorons. If I say, "I'm mad at you", how can I be in love with you.

Well, maybe...meaning extremely (used as intensive)
mad can mean Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion

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Mad as a meat axe
Silly as a Wheel
Silly as a pork chop

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Never heard of any of these! Must be down under-isms.

Jabbergah                                                    

I can't think of anything with silly, can you? OH, you are a silly willy.

Wedlock. Such a strange word. All it needs is a key. Wonder how wedshackle would sell?

That is a strange combination!! LOl, never thought about it before. Makes you wonder what was in whose mind when they "invented" the word!!

I have my very own little Lexism that is to do with Teabags...LOL...I use it for everything and plenty of ppl around here have caught on

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She has the personality of a teabag

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He has the attention span of a teabag

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etc etc

Oh and Mrs M - we dont like to call things Willy down here a willy is part of the MALE anatomy. But then again...Silly Willy prolly makes perfect sense then

Wedlock is a weird word.

I think I am getting sick....phooey!! who has time for such things

Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

Everyone must be out playing in the snow this morning.
I am reading Kurt Cobain's journals at the moment and I have this urge to share this part (I have no idea why )

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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. I like to blame my parents generation for soming so close to social exchange then giving up agter a few successful efforts by the mediaand governemtn to deface the movement by using the mansons and other hippie representatives as propaganda examples on how they were nothing but unpatriotic, communist, satanic, unhuman diseases and in turn the baby boomers becoma the ultimate, conforming yuppie hyprocrits a generation has ever produced.
I like ti calmy and rationally discuss my views in a conformais manor even though I consider myself to the extreme left.
I like to infiltrate the mechanics of a system by posing as on eof them, then slowly start to rot from the inside of the empire.
I like to assinate the lesser and greater of two evils.
I like to impeach GOd.
[edited by Lexie due to being a little too over the top]
I like the comfort in knowing that women are generally superior and naturally less violent than men
I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future of rock and roll.
[edited]
Censorship is very American
I have met many able to store and translatre a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they havent an ounce of talent for wisdoms or the appreication of passion.
The conspiracy towards success in America is immediacy. To expose in great repetition to the minds of small attention spans, fast, speedy, now with even more nacho cheese flavour! here today, gone tomorrow was nothing more than a tool in every individuals need for self importance, entertainment and social rituals. Art that has long lasting value cannot be appreciated by majoritites, only the same, small percent will value arts patience as they always have. This is good. The ones who are unaware do not deserve false suggestions in their purchasing duties.
Scenarios revolve, verbal communication is exhausted, sitcoms are scenarios and so is out conversation.
Our party gathers out of boredom, role playing for affection and acceptance and to disinfect nagging germs ending in silence and accomplishment - produced violations on those who werent here to play.
They were invited, maybe in a museum far from now.
I'm no in my sad stage, before it was naive hate. I want to be the first to discover and discard before its popularity. Tomorrow the wont care stage is predicted and I am not looking forward to it. Maybe vegetables will diffuse the chemicals I produce inside me, an easy excuse (these chemicals). I rarely use my instrument, it used to be so exciting, working on music is not a chore. Its now a waste of time to practise. Every other month I buy the results from the air.
Ask not what you can do to your rock star.

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Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

I can see Shirley's red pencil hovering over the screen

Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

Lexie, don't know about Shirley's pencil , but mine is a little taken back..it must be an Aussie thing!

LOL He is an American who died of a drug overdose, he was the front man of the band Nirvana. He must of been about 22-23 when he wrote that.

Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

...what Lexie will do to avoid doing the listings she needs to do!?!

Jabbergah                                                    

Yes, well, his ramblings sounded like a drug overdose or I am having one, one or the other! LMAO!! UHHhuh, Jabber, she really is avoiding that big listing!!

I try to avoid editing anything that was written in a drug-induced paranoid state. And I use a green or purple pen -- far less intimidating to my writers!

LMAO!!

All of you can bite me!!

I have been entertaining Tyler, thats much more important than listing stuff

Purple would be the colour I would use Shirley, it would be the least intimidating colour I can think of

Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

Munch! I swear, Lexie, I don't understand a lot of what the guy is saying! ..but as with most poets, you aren't supposed to!

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Amazing what Lexie will do to avoid doing the listings she needs to do!?!
UHHhuh, Jabber, she really is avoiding that big listing!!

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LMAO!!All of you can bite me!!

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There's a saying that if you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that gets hit yelps! Is Lexie yelping?! LOL!

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I have been entertaining Tyler, thats much more important than listing stuff

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Definitely, AGREED!!

Jabbergah                                                    

Yes, we do agree on that!! Especially since he is happy again!

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There's a saying that if you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that gets hit yelps! Is Lexie yelping?!

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That would be me grrrrrowling, not yelping

Lexie

"If you read - you will judge!"

Do you guys know when you post a note, your posting number is incremented. Then if you DELETE that note, your posting number stays the same. Now I don't need to recite the alphabet in private topics anymore!

Jabbergah                                                    

Yezzz, jabber, I do know..ask rick, I am the "Queen of Delete"!!! lmao!!