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Why the clubs symbolized farm workers

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Before they looked like cute little clovers, these symbols represented the heavy batons and wooden clubs carried by the working agricultural class. Nothing says family fun like holding a fistful of downtrodden peasant symbolism while shouting 'Uno' at your grandmother.

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