Actor/Director Buster Keaton lost the top of the index finger on his right hand in a mangle when he was a toddler: Keaton in The High Sign @BusterKeatonSoc @busterlove1895pic.twitter.com/0KgszXmuGh
In Victorian times, the mechanical "Mangle" was used to squish the water out of fabrics after they had been washed. Children would accidentally get themselves jammed and caught up in the machine causing severed limbs or death (Illustration by Rachel Vermeer)pic.twitter.com/lRB06PyL6F
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This is true! Little Buster was curious about a ringer laundry machine and lost part of his finger. It may have been his idea to add this to his episode of “The Twilight Zone”, 1961.
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Now they eat laundry packets
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We had a mangle when I was a kid (Victorian times). The urge to put the tip of your finger in it, just to see, was a strange sensation akin to that experienced in later life (Edwardian times) when peering over the brow of Niagra Falls for the first time...
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I blame the name.
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A true horror machine.
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But you could just put the clothes through it again to squish the blood out of them.
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Omgosh!
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I bet those kids wouldn’t give it a thumbs up...haha...too dark?
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Not just Victorian times. My aunt was still using one in rural Australia in the 1970s.
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My mom has one of these!
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Also used at the old Idaho State penitentiary until the 70s. It’s still on display.
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I supposed that's where we get the term "mangled limbs"
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Dreadful. My Grandmother had one as I recall..
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Steven king has a short story ‘the mangler’ in the Night Shift collection.
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My grandmother still used one in 1960s Liverpool.
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That's a pretty neat illustration!
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