I Am What Popeye Is

For some reason I was thinking about Popeye today. It occurred to me that the two of us have much in common. Maybe you will agree. 

1) We are both vegetarian. Although Popeye enjoyed his spinach from a can, we are both down with the greens. 

2) The Pipe. You almost never see the Popster without his pipe. Few people know this about me, but I used to rock the Bubble blowing Pipe when I was a kid. Made small bubbles....but the volume was killer!

3) Bad Hair Days. Like me, Popeye is trying to work a comb-over. I would argue that I have been more successful, since Pop is working with just a single hair. Neither of us are fooling anyone though.

4) We both look good in a hat. Enough said.

5) Giant Forearms. Pop and I both wear our guns slung low. I am more of a Lone Gunman though as only my right forearm is well developed. Lone gunman is quite appropriate considering the method employed to Pump my arm. Many LONEly nights as a teen. 

6) We both love Olive Oil. I prefer my olive oil warmed with some crushed garlic, rather than with knobby knees and an dowdy skirt that shows no skin. That said, I think if you cut us, we bleed olive drab!

7) Parenting by Proxy. I was never quite clear on Pop's relationship to SweetPea. Was that Olive's baby? I'm pretty sure Pop wasn't the baby daddy. Maybe she was Blutos. An Olive/Bluto divorce would explain a lot of the animosity. What ever the case, it seems Pop was always responsible for SweetPea even though she wasn't his by oil. Every time the government runs out of money, they claim they need more. You know, for the kids. We all have to do our part. For the kids. I DON'T HAVE KIDS!! Like Pop, I am always there when they need me though. 

8) Existentialism. We know that Popeye had thought long and hard about the meaning of life and his place in the Universe. It can be best summed up by his most famous quote. "I am what I am. And that's all that I am." I am not sure I share his view. There must be more to me than....ME?! Clearly though we both are knowledge seekers. 

Popeye and I do part ways in some areas. I don't have a mortal enemy. Which is good because unlike Pop, I also carry no emergency Spinach supplies. Still....we both mumble a lot. And chuckle. And we both have a Lazy eye. Although Pop's has  possibly crossed the lazy/dead line. All in all.....I am what he is.