popeye the sailorman = a POTHEAD?!?

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pace wikipedia:

It has also been claimed that the "spinach" Popeye used was a reference to marijuana. Spinach was a slang term for marijuana at the time of Popeye's creation, and it was believed by some during that time period that marijuana could give users superhuman strength.

where are you, nickalicious?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it make the blind man see

― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno nothin' bout that, but Popeye sure is great to watch while stoned, especially the early Fliescher Brothers ones. They're great to watch sober, as well. They're just fantastic cartoons is all, on a par with and sometimes superior to the cream of the Looney Tunes material.

What I'm trying to say here is: me like Popeye.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but does this mean that popeye likes smelly hippy music like moe & phish?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

seems like he was in the middle east quite a bit

― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

not too mellow to get into bustups with bluto though.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe bluto represents THE MAN

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but does this mean that popeye likes smelly hippy music like moe & phish?

nah, he likes Mezz Mezzrow and Louis Armstrong. that was what drug music was in the '20s-'40s.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

For real, tho, Popeye's spinach thing was because of conventional wisdom at the time that spinach was almost supernaturally high in iron. This was due to a decimal error in some 19th century study that had calculated that spinach had 10X as much iron as it actually does, leading to several generations of children being sternly told to eat their spinach. According, again, to Wikipedia, the error was corrected German scientists in 1937, but Popeye was well along by then, and the popular belief in spinach's fantastic ferro properties persisted for years.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents even told me that when I was a kid! Until just now, I believed that spinach was full of iron.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It is a pretty good source of iron (though there are other thingys in it that make the iron that tend to block iron absorption).

Didn't Popeye used to eat spinach through his pipe?

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

And lets not forget his munchie-crazed friend:

http://www.funkyfridge.com/shop/images/AB-BP-24385.jpg

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Wimpy_TJB.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mtcnet.net/~bierly/popcowb.jpg
"Aaaaykekeke...wow Olive, I'm blitzcafied!"

― SPINACH PIE (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"OH POPEYE! I CAN SEE YOUR AURA!"

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.4/2.4%20gifs/langerpopeye04.gif
"Take a hike square! This man's gonna put his lovin to me!"

― OLIVE OLE (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Guy on right: I'm so sad my Olive doesn't want me, I'm gonna go eat burgers til I'm faetty as a elephant.

― What Happened To Wimpy (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

but have you seen popeye at any of those phish or government mule concerts you haunt, nickalicious?!?

;-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

According to Harry J Anslinger – director of the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1931 to 1962 – Popeye was a pot head, and that wasn't just spinach going into his pipe!

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen Gov't Stool!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

canned spinach is gnarly, yo.
only fit for smoking.

― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Anslinger believed that "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind," and in 1937 he testified with these exact words before US Congress, resulting in the United States' first prohibitions against pot.

hahahahahahahaha

*mild shuffling, coughing*
OH SHIT MANG, TURN THAT BLUEGRASS DOWN, WE GOT A REEFER BRAWL OVER HERE!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, I love the quote "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind"...GET ONE GRAMMAR.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i think "spinach" should be re-entered into the pot vernacular!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

from now on when i'm calling drugdealers i will ask them if they "got the spinach."

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

erm, when i was at berkeley as a student, i bought something off the street that turned out to be a baggie of...

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

from now on when i'm calling drugdealers i will ask them if they "got the spinach."

but first you have to say "Aaaaykekeke!!"

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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