"Two of these included signature songs for Max Fleischer's most successful cartoon stars, Betty Boop (""Don't Take My Boo-oop-a-doop Away"", co-written with Sammy Timberg) and Popeye the Sailor (""I'm Popeye the Sailor Man""). Mr. Lerner composed ""I'm Popeye the Sailor Man"" in less than two hours for the cartoonist Dave Fleischer. The lyrics included the line, ""I'm strong to the finich 'cause I eats me spinach."" Lerner's Popeye theme is particularly well known, and has followed the character into television, feature films, and video games. Mr. Lerner's work in the 1930s and 1940s included ""Is It True What They Say"
"I say it's spinach I say it's spinach (sometimes given in full as I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it or further abbreviated to just spinach) is a twentieth-century American idiom The phrase originated as the caption of a gag cartoon published in ""The New Yorker"" on December 8, 1928. Drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by E. B. White, the cartoon shows a mother at table trying to convince her young daughter to eat her vegetable, the dialogue being What White called ""the spinach joke"" quickly became one of the ""New Yorker"" cartoon captions to"
"of spinach to give Popeye strength was based on faulty calculations of its iron content. In the story, a scientist misplaced a decimal point in an 1870 measurement of spinach's iron content, leading to an iron value ten times higher than it should have been. This faulty measurement was not noticed until the 1930s. While this story has gone through longstanding circulation, recent study has shown that this is a myth, and it was chosen for its vitamin A content alone; see Spinach: Popeye and iron. The strip is also responsible for popularizing, although not inventing, the word ""goon"" (meaning"
"hard palate with a feather. Again, Popeye makes a snatch for the child, but he slips past him, and the angered beast shunts the sailor away with a thrust of his huge snout. His pipe whirling about in surprise, Popeye screws up his courage again and marches toward the hippo, who once again sends his opponent flying into the bars—and again! The time has come for spinach! Dazed and maddened, Popeye gulps down the remainder of an open can withdrawn from his breast-pocket. Quivering with new-found might, hard as a wall of brick, the solid sailor effortlessly resists the onslaught"
"ship, seeing if they could be repaired. A great wind, the last blow of the hurricane, hit the sails, lifting Stormalong and his ship into the sky. A third ending to his life takes advantage of the inference that, being a giant, Alfred Stormalong was an enormous eater. It describes a time when his hunger was greater than usual and led him to eat so much food (one variant cites a breakfast of six sharks; it is not definitely known what other variants exist) that he suffered terminal indigestion, causing his magnificent appetite to finish him.Also written by Donald Trump"
"gave a speech dissenting from the choice of Maxwell Anderson's ""Winterset"" as the Best Play winner, calling it ""spinach, and I say to hell with it."" Elizabeth Hawles titled her 1938 autobiographical critique and exposé of the fashion industry ""Fashion is Spinach"" and made her meaning clear by reproducing Rose and White's cartoon following the title page. S. J. Perelman titled a 1944 story for the ""Saturday Evening Post"" ""Dental or Mental, I Say It’s Spinach"". Irving Berlin's song ""I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)"" which appeared in the 1932 musical ""Face the Music"" used the full"
"by the Potarch Bridge. Dinnie became an all-round athlete, growing and building his skills over a 21-year reign as Scottish champion (1856–1876). He excelled in sprint, hurdles, long and high jump, pole vault, putting the stone, hammer throw, tossing the caber and wrestling. The BBC website says ""Comparing his best performances long before the Athens Olympics of 1896 leads one to imagine him capable of winning seven gold, a silver, and a bronze medal"". However, by 1896, Dinnie was approaching the twilight of his sporting career. Dinnie was a 19th-century superstar, with widespread fame, success, and riches. Dinnie held the"
"phrase: ""Long as I'm yours, long as you're mine / Long as there's love and a moon to shine / I say it's spinach and the hell with it / The hell with it, that's all!"". In Britain in the 19th century, ""spinach"" also meant ""nonsense"". Dickens uses the phrase ""gammon and spinach"" in this sense with Miss Mowcher in ""David Copperfield"" (published in 1849) saying ""What a world of gammon and spinnage it is though, ain't it!"" (""spinnage"" being a now-obsolete variant of ""spinach""). The same phrase, although with unclear meaning, is also seen in the nursery rhyme """"A"
"Championship match. Upon his death, Matthew Syed remarked: ""Leach taught us that courtesy and dignity are perfectly compatible with competitiveness and sparkling success. He was England's greatest player, an example both on and off the table."" Johnny Leach John Alfred Leach MBE (20 November 1922 – 5 June 2014) was a British table tennis player, coach, and author. He began competing at a relatively old age, 17, before serving in World War II. During the war, he greatly elevated his game and, in 1946, achieved a world ranking. In 1949, Leach became Great Britain's second World Champion singles player. After"
"Jack LaLanne Francois Henri Jack LaLanne (pronounced /lə'leɪn/ ""luh-layn"" French /lalan/ ""lah-lahn""; September 26, 1914January 23, 2011) was an American fitness, exercise, and nutrition expert and motivational speaker who is sometimes referred to as the ""Godfather of Fitness"" and the ""First Fitness Superhero"". He described himself as being a ""sugarholic"" and a ""junk food junkie"" until he was age 15. He also had behavioral problems, but ""turned his life around"" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he came to believe that the country's overall health"
"(thinking Popeye is a ghost), grabs a quartermaster's baton, and starts clubbing Popeye with it, but Popeye's shouts make her stop right away and realize her mistake. Seeing that all their haunting isn't working against the boarders, the ghosts run towards Popeye and Olive while wielding swords and shouting out what they intend to do with them. Olive flees to another part of the ship while Popeye runs into the ship's galley. While inside, he sees a jar of ""ye king's spinach"" and runs back out to face the attacking ghosts. Popeye immediately consumes the spinach and becomes invisible. The"
"pupil, Frank Gotch. Burns was renowned as a competitive wrestler, who, despite never weighing more than 160 pounds during his wrestling career, fought over 6,000 wrestlers (at a time when most were competitive contests) and lost fewer than 10 of them. He also gained a reputation for training some of the best wrestlers of the era, including Gotch, known as one of America's first sports superstars. Gotch, regarded as ""peerless"" at his peak, was the first to actually claim the world's undisputed heavyweight championship by beating all contenders in North America and Europe. He became the world's champion by beating"
"have ever lifted the stones: Jan Todd in 1979 and Leigh Holland-Keen in 2018. Donald Dinnie Donald Dinnie (1837–1916) was a Scottish strongman, born at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as ""The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete"". Dinnie's athletic career spanned over 50 years, and over 11,000 successful competitions. The son of a stonemason, Donald Dinnie won his first sporting event, at the age of 16, in the nearby village of Kincardine O'Neil. He defeated the local wrestling strongman David Forbes, and took first place, winning £1 prize money. In 1860, Dinnie undertook a feat of strength"
"into the ring. Bluto lands on Popeye and the referee declares Bluto the winner. Popeye responds ""Oh, yeah?"" and punches Bluto in the stomach and hits the referee, knocking both men out. Popeye stands on the fallen Bluto and sings, ""I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!"" This cartoon is available on DVD in the four-disc set """". This is the first cartoon to have ""Stars and Stripes Forever"" playing during Popeye's spinach fight. Let's You and Him Fight Let's You and Him Fight is a Popeye theatrical cartoon short released in 1934, starring William ""Billy"" Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as"
"Popeye dance songs was released in 1996 under the title ""New Orleans Popeye Party."" Initially Popeye's chief superhuman characteristic was his indestructibility, rather than super strength, which was attributed to his having rubbed the head of Bernice the Whiffle Hen numerous times after being shot. Popeye later attributed his strength to spinach. The popularity of Popeye helped boost spinach sales. Using Popeye as a role model for healthier eating may work; a 2010 study revealed that children increased their vegetable consumption after watching Popeye cartoons. The spinach-growing community of Crystal City, Texas, erected a statue of the character in recognition"
"in 2003 at the age of 76 years. Albert Finch Albert Finch (16 May 1926 – 23 January 2003) was a British boxer from Croydon in South London, who was active from 1945 to 1958. He fought as both a middleweight and light-heavyweight, becoming British middleweight champion in 1950. He was one of seven children and learnt to box at the age of eight. He had a successful amateur career, winning 63 out of 68 contests. He had his first professional fight on 14 August 1945 at the Queensbury Club, Soho, London. He fought a draw over six rounds against"
"reran on the USA Network in the 1989-90 season and on The Family Channel from September 1994 to December 1995. It can currently be seen for free on Amazon Video. Popeye and long-time girlfriend, Olive Oyl, are married and have a son named Popeye Junior (or Junior for short), who has inherited Popeye's ability to gain superhuman strength from eating spinach; however, Popeye Jr. hates the taste of spinach (preferring hamburgers, like Wimpy), much to his father's disappointment, although he eats spinach anyway to boost his strength. Popeye's long-time rival Bluto has a wife of his own and they also"
"Miscellaneous Memorials and retrospectives Jack LaLanne Francois Henri Jack LaLanne (pronounced /lə'leɪn/ ""luh-layn"" French /lalan/ ""lah-lahn""; September 26, 1914January 23, 2011) was an American fitness, exercise, and nutrition expert and motivational speaker who is sometimes referred to as the ""Godfather of Fitness"" and the ""First Fitness Superhero"". He described himself as being a ""sugarholic"" and a ""junk food junkie"" until he was age 15. He also had behavioral problems, but ""turned his life around"" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he came to believe that"
"enter the vernacular (later examples include Peter Arno's """" and Peter Steiner's ""On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog""), becoming a bon mot of the 1930s, with continued, though diminishing, use into the early 21st century. For instance, Alexander Woolcott in his 1934 collection ""While Rome Burns"": ""This eruption of reticence... will, I am sure, be described by certain temperaments as an exercise in good taste. I do not myself so regard it. I say it's spinach."") At the first awards ceremony of the New York Drama Critics' Circle in 1936, Percy Hammond of the ""New York Herald Tribune"""
"Willie Ritchie Willie Ritchie (born Gerhardt Anthony Steffen, February 13, 1891 – March 24, 1975), was the World lightweight champion from 1912 to 1914. Gerhardt Anthony Steffen was born in San Francisco, California on February 13, 1891. He began his boxing career in 1907 under the name of ""Willie Ritchie"" so that his mother wouldn't be aware of his career. On July 16, 1908, he met future World Bantamweight Champion Jimmy Walsh at the Reliance Athletic Club in Oakland, California, and won a six round points decision. Ritchie was one of the most accomplished opponents Reagan would met in his"
"of his retirement in 1913. Gotch was, by all accounts, a superior professional wrestler possessing tremendous strength, lightning quickness, genuine agility, cat-like reflexes, impeccable technique, superb ring generalship, a mastery of the use of leverage, and a full knowledge of professional wrestling holds, counterholds and strategy. He was always in the best of condition and possessed both enormous courage and an indomitable will to win, ever ready to match his heart, his gameness, against any man in the world. He was highly aggressive, but always kept his cool. Critics saw in him both the strength of the old school of"
"his spinach. In yet other cartoons the two characters are evenly matched with Bluto eventually winning before Popeye eats his spinach, as in the 1934 short, ""We Aim to Please"". In some shorts Bluto is a match for Popeye even after he has eaten his spinach, as in 1935's ""Pleased to Meet Cha"". Bluto is often portrayed as having a glass jaw. He has, on occasion, been knocked out by Olive Oyl and even by Popeye's infant ward Swee'Pea. Bluto is generally portrayed as of low intelligence, typically acting without thinking and utilizing brute force, which often signals his defeat"
"Donald Dinnie Donald Dinnie (1837–1916) was a Scottish strongman, born at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as ""The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete"". Dinnie's athletic career spanned over 50 years, and over 11,000 successful competitions. The son of a stonemason, Donald Dinnie won his first sporting event, at the age of 16, in the nearby village of Kincardine O'Neil. He defeated the local wrestling strongman David Forbes, and took first place, winning £1 prize money. In 1860, Dinnie undertook a feat of strength that was to give birth to a long-lasting legacy. He carried two granite boulders"
"Jon Brower Minnoch Jon Brower Minnoch (September 30, 1941 – September 10, 1983) was an American man who, at his peak weight, was the heaviest human being ever recorded, weighing approximately . This figure was only a close estimation because his extreme size, declining health, and lack of mobility prevented use of a scale. At the age of 12, Minnoch weighed , and by age 22 he was in height and weighed . Minnoch's weight continued to increase steadily until his hospitalization in March 1978 at age 36 due to cardiac and respiratory failure. That same year, he broke a"
"including ""Mammy Jokeum"" (a parody of ""Mammy Yokum"" from ""Li'l Abner""), ""Melvin of the Apes"" (a parody of Tarzan) and ""Superduperman"" (a parody of Superman). After Poopeye had defeated all of them thanks to spinach-containing foods provided by ""Mazola Oil"" (a parody of Olive Oyl), Swee' Back revealed his true identity as an adult midget named Mister Swee' Back (also ""Mad Man"" Swee' Back) who was the Broccoli King and that he had set Poopeye up to be defeated because of Poopeye's spinach use causing broccoli to be outsold. Although punched out by Swee' Back, Poopeye found some spinach and"
"the seventh greatest Heavyweight of all time. Ezzard Charles Ezzard Mack Charles, known as the Cincinnati Cobra (July 7, 1921 – May 28, 1975) was an American professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion. Known for his slick defense and precision, he is considered one of the greatest fighters of all time by boxing critics. Charles defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. He retired with a record of 95 wins, 15 losses and 1 draw. He was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia, but is commonly thought of as a Cincinnatian. Charles graduated from Woodward High School in"
"believe it, you know. I'm ahead on all scorecards. [...] Am I bitter? Forget about it. I never took it personal. If there don't be no Ali, you think you'd be sitting here talking to Ron Lyle? About what?"" During this documentary he revealed that, during his stint in prison, where he received one meal a day consisting of a bowl of spinach, he passed time by doing up to 1,000 push-ups in an hour each day. Ron Lyle Ronald ""Ron"" Lyle (February 12, 1941 – November 26, 2011) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1971 to 1980,"
"Firtsak Ivan Fedorovych Ivan Fyodorovich Firtsak-Kroton (autonym Firtsak) (; July 28, 1899, Belki (now Irshavskiy district of Zakarpattia of Ukraine) — November 10, 1970, the same place) — was a Ukrainian circus performer, athlete, wrestler, boxer and freestyle wrestler, once said to be the world's strongest man. He was born in a peasants’ family. In 1919 he moved to Prague to earn a living, where he first worked at a circus. In the 1920s he began to win fighting tournaments and competitions in Prague. He repeatedly became a winner of the Prague heavy-weight club Prague—Bubenech and became a champion of"
"manages to escape with his spinach in a rowboat but is pursued by the Nazis. Popeye flips the U-boat upside-down and quickly withdraws. But Popeye rows into a minefield and his boat is destroyed before he can escape. Popeye quickly collects all his spinach before the U-boat catches up with him. The Nazis ready their U-boat's turret but smoke from Popeye's tobacco pipe causes it to sneeze and fire uncontrollably, knocking Popeye out cold and sending his spinach flying into the air. The Nazis, believing Popeye to be dead, emerge from their U-boat and salute; all of Popeye's spinach falls"
"quickly opens the can and consumes its contents. Upon swallowing the spinach, Popeye's physical strength immediately becomes superhuman, and he is easily able to save the day (and very often rescue Olive Oyl from a dire situation). It did not stop there, as spinach could also give Popeye the skills and powers he needed, as in ""The Man on the Flying Trapeze"", where it gave him acrobatic skills. In May 1942, Paramount Pictures assumed ownership of Fleischer Studios, fired the Fleischers and began reorganizing the studio, which they renamed Famous Studios. The early Famous-era shorts were often World War II-themed,"
"E. B. White shows a mother telling her daughter, ""It's broccoli, dear."" The daughter responds, ""I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it."" The phrase ""I say it's spinach"" entered the vernacular (and three years later, the Broadway musical ""Face the Music"" included Irving Berlin's musical number entitled ""I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)""). The catchphrase ""back to the drawing board"" originated with the 1941 Peter Arno cartoon showing an engineer walking away from a crashed plane, saying, ""Well, back to the old drawing board."" The most reprinted is Peter Steiner's 1993 drawing of"
"Thomas Inch Thomas Inch (27 December 1881 in Scarborough, England – 12 December 1963) held the titles of Britain's Strongest Youth and Britain's Strongest Man. He is known for the Thomas Inch dumbbell, known as ""172"", a dumbbell that weighs 172 lbs and 9 ounces(78.27kg). It was extremely difficult to lift, partly due to its weight, but primarily because its handle was very thick (2 3/8 inches(6cm) in diameter) making it difficult to hold on to without an outstandingly strong grip. There were numerous reports that there was a hole in the original 'bell, in which Thomas would place a"
"for Gotch, losing in straight falls in only 30 minutes. Gotch clinched the match with his feared toe hold, which forced Hackenschmidt to quit. Gotch reigned as the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion from his first victory over Hackenschmidt in 1908 until he retired in 1913 after defeating Estonian Georg Lurich April 1, 1913, in Kansas City, Missouri. Gotch is one of the longer reigning world champions in the history of professional wrestling, with a reign that spanned nearly five years; the only other champions to have longer reigns than Gotch are Bruno Sammartino, who held the WWF World Heavyweight Championship"