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::A quick Google survey indicates he said it at least three times: ''[[The Ducksters]]'' (1950); ''[[Rabbit Fire]]'' (1951); and ''[[Drip Along Daffy]]'' (1951). I'm not prepared to argue that it qualifies as a "common" catchphrase. For one thing, it's a common cliche that was once ascribed to [[Humphrey Bogart]] (a frequent actor for Warner Brothers), and you know how imitative these Warner cartoon writers were. [[User:Wahkeenah|Wahkeenah]] 08:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
::I also found Google references that suggest it was used by [[Tweety Bird]] and (implied) [[Wile E. Coyote]]. So I'm inclined to think that the writers simply grabbed this standard cliche and applied it wherever it seemed useful. [[User:Wahkeenah|Wahkeenah]] 09:29, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
"Anyone for tennis? as a catchphrase typifies the kind of drawing-room comedies in which someone stepped in through the French windows, lightly swinging a racket; surprisingly (given his later tough-guy image) it was once much associated with Humphrey Bogart, although it may have originated with George Bernard Shaw. (Misalliance, 1914, has the question, 'Anybody on for a game of tennis?'." [http://130.88.203.109/worldofwords/quotations/quotefrom/bogart/]
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