Is the fictitious character with the huge forearms on television anymore?
This morning I did a search on our cable box and nothing came up! (a search, isn’t that amazing how you can type a couple of letters in and come up with all the shows that are coming up in the future?)
As a youngster sitting on the living room floor in front of my T.V., I’d lose myself with the comical cast of characters that were before me. I’d dream of hanging with Popeye. Kicking it with Bluto and sharing a burger with Wimpy.
But Popeye was the best. I loved the way he would enunciate.
“I’m strong to the finish because I eat me spinach…”
How many times as a kid while at your dinner table did you hear, “Eat your spinach like Popeye and grow up to be big and strong!”
Umm, excuse me mom, but no matter how much spinach you forced down my throat, I was always skinny as a stick.
I wasn’t a big fan of Olive Oyl – I thought she was annoying and obnoxious.
I liked Bluto – he was cool. I loved the battles he had with Popeye. (What did he eat to get so big?)
Wimpy was cool too. Man could that dude down the burgers, huh? ‘I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday…’
My favorite episode was the the one with Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves.
“OPEN SEZ ME!”
Popeye took ’em all on – counting each one of them as he knocked them out!
I YAM WHAT I YAM!
-SF
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