[Ads-l] "March Madness" "Sweet Sixteen" and the like

[Michael Everson]

Carroll didn’t say that “all the best people are bonkers” either but that doesn’t stop folk from repeating it. Sigh.

M

> On 10 Apr 2019, at 20:33, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Reviewers of the original book referred to the hatter as a "mad hatter" as early as December 1865, and the character known as "the Mad Hatter" was a feature of numerous stage versions of the story from as early as 1876.

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