Posted on 03/13/2025 11:50:21 AM PDT by Ezekiel
This earlier report had reminded me of Popeye, especially because Purim falls around the same time, sometimes even on Saint Patrick's Day. So much green:
The parade was plagued last year by public drinking, violence, assaults, overcrowding, and disorderly conduct, officials said.
South Boston St. Patrick's Day parade will start earlier to help curb drunkenness, violence
It doesn't happen very often, but one such date merge occurred in 1946, the very year specified by the Nazi shortly before he was hanged.
"Purimfest 1946!"
It's an infamous quote related to the "Purim Code" in chapter 9 of the Megillah.
Here's a critique, but it provides the basic explanation and a lot of background details about the text.
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"Fictional" --
Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.[17][18][19][20] The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the lead character, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s.
Popeye's character had been inspired by a real-life, scrappy, first-generation American bartender of Polish ancestry, but Popeye the Sailor Man doesn't have any stated national origin, which keeps people guessing.
Frank "The Rock" Fiedler --
His parents, Bartłomiej and Anna Figiel, were married in the city of Czarnków, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of Poznań. They were wed in 1864 and emigrated to the United States before their son, Frank, was born. The family changed their name to a more easily pronounced Fiegel. When on January 27, 1868, in Chester, Illinois, a little boy was born to this world, no one could have suspected he would be immortalized in a work of contemporary art.
Figiel Surname Meaning
Polish: nickname for a prankster from figiel 'trick' 'joke'.Fiegel Surname Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a fiddler from the dialect word figele 'fiddle violin' (from Late Latin figella). Diminutive of Fiege.From a pet form of the personal name Vigil, Latin Vigilius. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Fiddler on deck, for those who appreciate a good yoke (violin = fiddle, the "national instrument" of the Jewish people).
A Scottish or Irish origin for Popeye is commonly assumed, which oddly links to the original family name of the Polish bartender-Popeye:
The leprechaun is said to be a solitary creature, whose principal occupation is making and cobbling shoes, and who enjoys practical jokes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun
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In the spirit of Purim and the "revealing of the hidden", such as Esther's Jewish identity...
Has anyone really thought about Popeye's iconic, identifying catchphrase?
"I YAM WHAT I YAM!"
Because... he's a sailor man, and right there is the Hebrew word for "sea", yam [ים], doubled.
Coincidence? The Megillah is all about there being no coincidences.
This year, Purim falls on 3/14, Pi Day.
It's worth mentioning this year's date because the popular meme-visual is based on reversals, like Purim itself, the plot turning to the contrary. The message has been on t-shirts for quite a while:
The name Popeye is two palindromes joined together:
POP
EYE
On 3/14, Purim-Pi Day's 2025 timing also comes with the 🔴 blood Moon eclipse (to eclipse is to transcend):
(soul food)
The name God gave to Moses on 3:14:
Exodus 3:14. And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and he said, Thus shall you say to the people of Israel, I AM has sent me to you:
Popeye sang as if he had been one of the first Jews in Space ("when Goyim attack us, we give 'em a smack, we slap 'em right back in the face"):
I'm one tough Gazookus
Wot hates all Palookas
Wot ain't on the ups and square
Boy I biffs 'em and buffs 'em
And always out roughs 'em
And none of 'em gets nowhere
Popeye The Sailor: Let's Sing with Popeye - "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" (1934)
King Features
When it doesn't say explicitly "King Achashveirosh," the word "king" in the Megillah refers to God, Who is the King of the universe. God's name in not mentioned even once in the Megillah. This is unique for there is no other book in the Bible where God's name does not appear. On the other hand, says this Midrash, God is referred to many times in the Megillah, albeit obliquely, for whenever the word "king" is mentioned it actually alludes to God. This is quite an apt technique for mentioning God. For in the story of Purim, God's presence is hidden from the naked eye. So too His name is hidden and referred to only in disguised form.
The key points surrounding the Sailor Man:
YAM = sea
I YAM WHAT I YAM = God's name with the added YY
POP-EYE, the one-eyed sailor with the π [פאי] in his name [פופאי]
It's more than enough to suspect that Popeye's Creator was Jewish.
Segar was born on December 8, 1894, and raised in Chester, Illinois, a small town near the Mississippi River.[2][6][7] The son of Jewish parents Erma Irene (Crisler) and Amzi Andrews Segar, a handyman,[8] his earliest work experiences included assisting his father in house painting and paper hanging.[9] Skilled at playing drums, he also provided musical accompaniment to films and vaudeville acts in the local theater, where he was eventually given the job of film projectionist[10] at the Chester Opera House, where he also did live performances.[6]
At age 18, he decided to become a cartoonist. He took a correspondence course in cartooning from W. L. Evans of Cleveland, Ohio.[10] He said that after work he "lit up the oil lamps about midnight and worked on the course until 3 a.m." During this time, Segar also began studying the work of cartoonists that he would later cite as influences on his work, including Rube Goldberg, George McManus and George Herriman (especially Herriman's strip Stumble Inn).[2][3][7][11]
Popeye's enemy is named Bluto, which in Hebrew is spelled בלוטו. When the default page translator got a hold of the name, it explained that Popeye's enemy was somehow involved with lots, the lottery:
Popeye the Sailor is a comic book and cartoon character created by Elsie Seeger in 1929. When Popeye is in trouble, he eats spinach from a can, and gains enormous power, usually to save his beloved Olive Oil from his enemy in the lottery (or "Brutus", in several versions of the series and the plot).
It's important to keep a close eye on the translators. This one also confused the creator with a cow. That truly is a grave sin.
Google Translate ignored the first letter (ב, "in"):
"When Popeye gets into trouble, he eats spinach from a can, and gains superpowers, usually to save his lover Olive Oyl from his enemy Lotto."
Was Queen Esther Really Green?
Thus, the festival of Purim derives its name from the lots cast by Haman. For this is not some incidental detail in the story of Purim, but the single event that most expresses what Purim represents.
As such, if it weren't in the Megillah, who would ever believe it?
Here is another Jewish sailor -- a master harpooner with a whale of a tale in its time, on nights like this:
Got a whale of a tale to tell you lads,
A whale of tale or two,
'Bout the flapping fish and the girls I've loved
On nights like this with the Moon above.
Whale of a tale, and it's all true.
I swear by my tattoo!
Kirk Douglas - A Whale of a Tale
from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Running time 127 minutes
("apparently superfluous information")
No, he has tats....................
Well, nashaph me down!
But maybe the spinach represents dollars
Pies are round. Cake is square.
Sure disqualification? Time to walk the plank? No going back? Knot ever?
Maybe beside the point, but Kirk Douglas was Jewish (original name Issur Danielovitch).
And he smokes a pipe....................
That was part of the fun. 🙂
20,000 leagues under the sea, yet...
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Douglas joined the United States Navy in 1941, shortly after the United States entered World War II, where he served as a communications officer in anti-submarine warfare aboard USS PC-1139.[29]
He was medically discharged in 1944 for injuries sustained from the premature explosion of a depth charge."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas#Rise_to_stardom
It's always something!
E.C. Segar was Jewish.
Popeye Jewish? Who’d be disappointed?
I am, only because I misposted this one under chat versus religion, but who knows? No coincidences.
You won’t be disappointed in this story line.
His enemy is the guy involved in the lottery — the page translator let that slip.
It goes on, too:
Seeing that he was defending his beloved Olive Oil — EVOO being known for its green hue —
If Olive Oil is Esther then Popeye is Mordecai.
Oh sure, that seems absurd, but I listened carefully so I know that Mordecai is
Moor dock guy and more deck guy and you get the idea.
Boy I biffs ‘em and buffs ‘em
And always out roughs ‘em
And none of ‘em gets nowhere
Does that mean Wimpy’s hamburger is kosher?
Shiver mi timbers. Isn’t that Irish?
Well blow me down.
No, he is what he is.
Gene Hackman (RIP) was Popeye Doyle. Not sure how or if that helps.
We used to watch Popeye when we were young. When I saw it recently it seemed unnecessarily violent for children’s entertainment.
His WWII injuries probably seemed like nothing after having been crucified by the Romans.
“I’m Popeye!”
“.. it seemed unnecessarily violent for children’s entertainment.”
My childhood seemed far more rough and tumble, but I much prefer it too the way my grandchildren are being raised. These so-called ‘safe spaces’ are not so safe.
On the surface, the cartoons the children watch today are saccharine sweet, full of kindness, diversity, equity and inclusion - but that’s just a pretense - there’s harm being done to these kids.
After all, it’s no kindness to brainwash children into believing that they can choose their sex, that their parents are bigots, and that white people are evil.
And before we judge cartoons of the past for being too violent or risqué - remember - it’s not our parents who pushed explicit deviant sexual subject matter, drag queen story time and such on small school children - while calling it sex education.
Entertainment, children’s included, was far more entertaining when it was reality based, when people could take a joke, when entertainers were just entertaining - not social engineering.
I’m glad I was raised to be tough, to think for myself, to know when I’m being gaslit, to tell the difference between right and wrong, and the difference between a girl and a boy.
True, our entertainment had more violence, more sarcasm, more nasty ethnic jokes, etc.. that’s because it was less filtered - and unfiltered is good. Unfiltered may not be perfect, but it’s a lot better than filtered.
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