# Slug and Smokey Stover

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 3, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slug-and-smokey-stover/523452 "2010-01-03T00:37:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slug-and-smokey-stover/523452/1 "2010-01-03T00:37:25Z")

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This week’s column by Cecil, [What’s up with compostable plastics?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2915/whats-up-with-compostable-plastics), has an illustration by the illustrious **slug**. If I’m not mistaken, the front of the Zamboni-like machine says “Stover/2010.” Is this a silent nod to the Smokey Stover cartoons of Bill Holman?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slug-and-smokey-stover/523452/2 "2010-01-03T16:59:39Z")

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Probaly not. The Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company manufactured kerosene and gasoline powered stationary engines for use on the American farm. Between 1895 and 1941, Stover made more than 277,000 engines of various sizes and uses.

> **[Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stover_manufacturing_and_engine_company)**
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> The Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company was created by D.C. Stover in 1881. An established inventor, he progressed through a profitable windmill business to, in 1895, the manufacture of kerosene and gasoline powered stationary engines for use on the American farm.
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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slug-and-smokey-stover/523452/3 "2010-01-03T19:06:11Z")

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Note that **corn stover** is also referred to in the column. I’m wondering if the artwork has a treble meaning perhaps.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slug-and-smokey-stover/523452/4 "2010-01-03T19:14:42Z")

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> [@Una\_Persson](#):
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> Note that **corn stover** is also referred to in the column. I’m wondering if the artwork has a treble meaning perhaps.

Well, Slug has always been a bit of a treble maker.