The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for July 09, 2010

He’s Popeye the sailor man….*toot toot * That cartoon was old when I was a kid…and that was awhile ago now. Used to watch it every day after school.

I Yam What I Yam and That’s All That I Yam

I’ve always suspected this of Popeye…

Nice yam, Sheik.

Lessee……now where did I put that spinach??

Hey, Manitobaman we got hooked on watching “Ice Road Truckers” on the History Channel…..did you do any Ice Road work??? My admiration for those guys/gals is soooooooooo big!

ML*, aren’t *you an Ice Road Trucker during those Montana winters?

JFri…..not so far…..My Mountain Man does the driving in the ice….and he’s REALLY good at it! However, farther East in MT, it’s pretty bad, lucky we’re here in Helena where they really maintain the roads. :)))

Good morning Montana lady . Nope…never did the ice roads myself. Though I’ve certainly seen my share of whiteout conditions and icy roads. Pretty cool show, though, eh? I also like the series about the loggers.

The original Popeye comic character was started to popularize spinache. The only problem is that the belief that spinach was good for children because it was high in iron was the result of a clerical error. The decimal point was transposed by one position by the clerk recording the FDA test results. Spinach has no more iron than any other vegetable. Kids were coerced into eating that slimy, bitter stuff for nothing.

Need new schedule.

Friday—1) see skinny girlfriend, 2) get stuck babysitting, 3) get beat up by another sailor, 4) talk about yams but eat spinach, 5) smoke musical pipe, 6) repeat

I likes me spinach! I likes it best wilted with a little bacon grease and onion! The canned stuff seems to be digestible.

“The only problem is that the belief that spinach was good for children because it was high in iron was the result of a clerical error. ”

Rubbish! Don’t you people do any research before spreading your dis-information?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinachPopeyeIronDecimalError_Myth

Actually, Joe. The answer to that question is “no”.

He was created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929.

Betty Boop may have been Popeye’s first animated cartoon appearance as opposed to comic strips.

Here’s Valis616’s Spinach decimal error myth link fixed.

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that is a hard workout schedule for popeye to maintain.

Re history:

“Popeye is the spinach-eating cartoon swab created for the “Thimble Theatre” comic strip on January 17, 1929 by E.C. Segar.

“Betty Boop” was born from that era and Max Fleischer who was a great fan of “Thimble Theatre,” plucked Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto from the funny papers putting each into one animated film.

On July 14th, 1933, the comic strip trio appeared in one of the Betty Boop entries titled, “Popeye the Sailor.”

Betty was used just briefly on screen as the film was designed to see if the sailor, who was a big hit with depression era audiences in newspapers, could translate that popularity to the big screen. Popeye, his cohort, Olive Oyl and nemesis Bluto live on.”

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Edit: This history brought to you through the courtesy of Jesus.

That explains a lot