zzz?

[Wilson Gray]

Here's a possible "when." Back in the '40's, the speech-balloon often,
or even usually, contained not only Z's, but also a crosscut handsaw
sawing a log. Snoring and sawing wood have been equated at least since
1912.

http://goo.gl/u71zC

-Wilson
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:44 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> If I were to want to trace the history of the use of ZZZ for snoring
> in cartoons, what would be my best way of doing that? I have to
> assume that there's something better than dumpster-diving old comic
> books (wherever they even may be found), but I'm not entirely sure
> where to start looking.
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> Thanks!
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