“I thinks it were Sailor.”
Have you seen his forearms? They’re enormous. I always assumed that he built up his forearms from his sailor duties, hoisting ropes and such, giving him freakishly large forearm muscles and incredible grip strength, even without the spinach energy boost.
Nah, he was a tennis pro first. 
On game shows where the contestants say only “I agree” or “I disagree,” how come the emcee never asks “Why?” 
I don’t know why, but I’m glad they don’t ask. Card Sharks used to drive me nuts.
“We asked 100 people, are you left-handed? How many said yes, they are left-handed?”
“Well. Jim, I think that’s going to be a pretty small number. I know a lot of people, and only a few of them are left-handed. My uncle was left-handed and he…”
Just give a damn number already. They ramble on like they’re being paid by the word.
Well, at least they gave the matter some thought before answering. I mute the TV whenever they do those stupid flash “bonus rounds” on Tom Bergeron’s iteration of Hollywood Squares. There’s no time for the contestants to think, and if they said only “I agree” (or “I disagree”) each time, odds are they’d get at least some of the answers right.
Popeye definitely wasn’t the first superhero, because Zorro dates back to 1919.
And, for that matter, there’s no real difference between superheroes and many of the stories of saints, or the Greek (or older) myths. The crew of the Argo were the Avengers of their day.
Bluto observed Popeye eating spinach and then kicking the crap out of him more than once. Why didn’t Bluto get a clue and go buy himself multiple cans of spinach? It wasn’t like it was expensive or hard to find. Imagine the titanic fights between two spinach-fueled mugs! Would either ever win?
Spinach only worked for Popeye.
I speak from experience. It sure didn’t make me stronger, and as I was getting yelled at for retching at the table, I remember my preschool self thinking “I’ve been betrayed by modern culture and the mid-century media thereof.”
Not true. I remember Pappy, Olive Oyl, and Swee’pea eating it and taking out rivals and Goons.
Maybe the idea is that spinach is incredibly good for you but tastes so horrible that most people can’t force themselves to eat it except in a crisis. Popeye demonstrates a saintly level of asceticism by eating his spinach every day.
It only works for good guys.
No, on rare occasions when Bluto has been beaten beyond even what he deserved, Popeye’s revived him with spinach and even taken a few punches to balance the scales of justice.
Okay, then it only works when used for a good purpose. There, mystery solved.
My theory is that spinach is used as a symbol of grace bestowed by the Holy Spirit for righteousness, when otherwise the worldliness of brute force and underhanded cheating would win.
Yeah, her fiancé Doug appears in the book a number of times. Linda broke off the engagement when she got a scholarship to attend university in Europe.
A lot of Popeye’s power was derived from the time he was near death in the hold of a ship, and spent days stroking the single feather on the head of Bernice the Wiffle Hen, a pre-Eugene the Jeep magical animal. It’s Gospel.
Yeah. I grew up thinking spinach was green slime in a can, thanks to Popeye. The intended message had the opposite effect on me.
Indiana Jones is a college professor (at Princeton, I think it was). Towards the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark he was teaching a class, and then he just left to go look for the Ark. What were his students doing while Indy was off on his adventure? Did he just cancel class until he got back? Did one of his colleagues sub for him?