Posted on 03/13/2025 11:50:21 AM PDT by Ezekiel
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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