Talk:Popeye

The cartoon strip was not literally surrealistic.

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Later on, Popeye would have a fried chicken chain named after him.

...except one of the founders of same told the New York Times that the namesake was Popeye Doyle from The French Connection --♥ «Charles A. L.» 21:18, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)He is very strong

Some things

• The Popeye theme is not in the public domain; we were violating copyright by posting the lyrics in the article.
• The following has been removed from the article:

A Popeye TV cartoon was made in the USA during the 1960s. The characters were substantially simplified (as is common in TV cartooning) and altered further from Segar's original designs. The voice of Popeye was provided by Poley McClintock, whose show-business credits date back to the 1920s, when he was a member of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, a popular sweet band. It is widely believed that the part sung by Tony Burrows in The Pipkins' 1970 novelty record "Gimme Dat Ding" was intended as a tribute to McClintock.

Jack Mercer voiced Popeye from 1935 to 1982, save for the World War II period when Mae Questel voiced Popeye in some shorts.

• The character list is roughly in the order the characters joined the strip. I will make it verifyably correct soon, after I located by copy of my Popeye 50th Anniversary book.
• It's officially "Popeye the Sailor," not "Popeye the Sailor Man."

--b. Touch 09:53, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Math error: "Fleischer Studios produced 108 Popeye cartoons; 106 of them were produced in black and white. The remaining three were two-reel (double-length) Technicolor specials billed as "Popeye Color Features*" Since 106+3=109, I think either the 106 or 108 number is incorrect by one. I don't know which, however; someone must have the data to fix this typo. -- Wyvern 21:50, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That was my mistake. There are 108 total[1] (http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/page.cgi?g=Paramount_Pictures%2FFleischer_Studios%2F), which means 105 in black and white, not 106. Sorry about that. Will change immediately. --b. Touch 05:27, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Three Women

... is a film by Robert Altman. However I have three questions, which are not women. First, was Popeye a sailor in the merchant marine or America's equivalent of the Royal Navy? I have always assumed the former, but this is based entirely on supposition. Secondly, can anybody cite the specific study which supposedly, and erroneously, boosted the iron content of spinach? It's a well-known trivia fact, but is it an urban legend? Thirdly, why was 'Popeye' Doyle of The French Connection so-called? In reference to the cartoon character, or just because he was pop-eyed? Indeed, is 'Popeye' the character's given name, or a nickname? Why won't you tell me? Why? Why? -Ashley Pomeroy 15:04, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Actually that is nine questions, and three of them definitely are women. "Why won't you tell me? Why? Why?".. These three are on average slighter, they have impertinent and repetitive attitudes, they get shorter in temperment as they get unanswered, and they are dead-sexy cute. Ok, now please put down the meat cleaver. Was just trying some wit. To answer the fourth question: "Popeye" was the nickname of real life cop and later actor Eddie Egan, who partly inspired and even had a bit part in "The French Connection" [2] (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0250670/). He was born in 1930 and apparently got the nickname in his childhood baseball exploits, but it can't be proven (since Popeye predates him) the nickname isn't stolen. Apparently there are two possible explanations for the "Popeye" nickname on the French Connection 2 disc DVD set (in a BBC documentary included on it called "Making the Connection: Untold Stories of the French Connection"). Hope that confuses! To answer the second: There was no one study. Every study showed (and still does) that spinach has lots of iron, plenty of it. However, what they discovered later, was that the iron was still in the spinach, after it passed through you. Oops. But check out most cereals that have "100% iron", you can pick out shavings of it with a magnet. Only certain sizes and shapes of iron will be absorbed by our digestive system. Iron metal isn't very digestable, but organic iron compounds are. Hemoglobin isn't even magnetic, because the electrons that make iron magnetic are bonded. I think. 64.162.10.50 09:45, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If you mean the "10 times too much iron" study, there is information about it on Spinach (also [3] (http://www.innvista.com/health/foods/vegetables/spinach.htm): "Spinach's iron content had been determined in 1870 by Dr. E. von Wolf but a misplaced decimal point in his publication led to a figure ten times too high."