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On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > That's very odd > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 4:19:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] "Popeye" Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google > Masthead Today > > > > I can't see it, keith. Since I got the new Firefox, I'm sent to iGoogle > everytime I try to go to Google. Sometimes, advances aren't all they're > cracked up to be. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > ------------------------------ > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net > Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 04:49:26 +0000 > Subject: [scifinoir2] "Popeye" Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google > Masthead Today > > > > Kewl! I wonder if Segar was behind some of those later toons suggesting > popeye was growing weed? Also loved Popeye, from the old, old black and > white ones, to the beautifully colored ones by Max Fleischer with the 3D > look backgrounds (Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves are > two of those), and even later, the more simplistically drawn but still fun > ones from Chuck Jones, that featured the likes of Sea Hag, Eugene the Jeep, > the crazy sound effects. Hey...where's Poopdeck Pappy?! > > *********************************************************************** > www.google.com > > > > <http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/wp-content/assets/6/1696/article_photo1.jpg> > > E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, gets a birthday surprise from Google. > (Screengrab) > Enlarge<http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/wp-content/assets/6/1696/article_photo1.jpg> > Photos (1 of 1) > E.C. Segar: Why Popeye popped onto Google’s homepage *Popeye, the > spinach-gulping sailor, celebrates E.C. Segar on Google today.* > *By Chris Gaylord* | 12.08.09 > > > > Newscom/WENN.com > > Here's Popeye back in his Thimble Theatre days. Tuesday is cartoonist E.C. > Segar's 115th birthday. > ------------------------------ > Photo Gallery: Famous > grouches<http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1&date=specials/famous_grouches> > E.C. Segar, the man behind Popeye the Sailor, received an appropriately > raucous birthday message from Google Tuesday. Its home page features the > husky hero smacking around Google’s logo and about to swallow a quick > serving of his favorite meal, canned spinach. > Today marks what would be the American cartoonist’s 115th birthday. > Elzie Crisler Segar grew up in Illinois and quickly took to drawing. While > holding down a job as a film projectionist and background percussionist at a > local theater, he pursued cartooning through a correspondence course. > Segar eventually moved to Chicago and created the Thimble Theatre cartoon > strip in 1919. After nearly 10 years of Olive Oyl and others gracing its > panels, the series introduced a new character – a balding sailor with a > perpetually shut eye, anchor tattoos, preposterous forearms, and a curious > vocabulary. > Popeye soon outgrew the Thimble Theatre, earning his own cartoon strip, > animated series, and live-action movie starring Robin Williams. > The spinach-gulping mariner is the latest in a long line of Google Doodles. > Recent highlights include clay duo Wallace and > Gromit<http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/04/dont-forget-the-wallace-and-gromit-google-doodle/>, > H.G. Wells’s mysterious > UFOs<http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/21/hg-wells-the-ufo-google-logo-mystery-is-solved/>, > and a week’s > worth<http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/06/which-sesame-street-character-should-google-use-tomorrow/>of > Sesame > Street favorites. > Do you like Google’s new retro logo style? Upset that the lovely Olive Oyl > is MIA? Let us know in the comments or join the conversation on Twitter. > > > > ------------------------------ > Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. Check it > out<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009> > > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
