Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for April 23, 2020

But, but, I’m strong to the finish!

It’s a side-effect from eating too much leafy greens.

Well blow me down!

Ok where’d ya hide the can-o-spinach?

He yam what he yam.

In modern warfare, the objective is to sink the enemy’s ships. In the days of sailing ships the objective was to disable them with the intention of boarding them and possibly taking them over. Cannon shots were aimed not at the hull, but at the masts. Hit one of them and it will shake (or shiver). Etymology lesson concluded.

He’s run aground.

He’s just a regular guy! :-o

Now bend over and we’ll check your poop deck and prostate.

From the strip, not shivered.

And now he’s going to have to tell Olive Oyl how he got his timbers shivered.

so he’s got wood?

I yam what I yam.

Did Popeye say “shiver me timbers?” I don’t remember him saying that in the shorts that sometimes play on the old-fashioned tv at my work. Not that I stand there & watch the tv; I’ve just caught snatches. A lot of the dialogue is a little hard to follow, too, in Popeye & his rival’s deep, growly, accented voices… Not Olive’s screaming, though. When the tv is on to Popeye, I can hear Olive screaming every couple minutes the entire hour I’m on my upstairs shift.