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Tim Strzechowski dedalus204 at comcast.net
Sun Feb 8 07:21:39 CST 2004


What decade did the classic "card-playing dogs" velvet tapestry come into
being?

http://www.art.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_/CRID--2761/dog_playing_poker.htm
?RFID=054402&FT=Y&TKID=2743816

The P line sorta reminds me of those.


>
> 4. from page 238: The banter of the worms playing cards inside Weed's
> nose.  Isn't this lifted from the bats playing cards in the 1950s comic
> strip Pogo?  And wasn't the poker playing bats lifted from somewhere
> else, although I can't remember what it was?
>





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