RE: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today
I stopped trying, because I found the Google page cache. I've seen it already. 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: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:48:24 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today Is it still going there? You will have to manually reset the web address in the browser under the Tools/Options/Main tab then type in the web address of http://www.gmail.com (or http://www.google.com)in the Home page area. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Gmail is my default page through Firefox. I'd reset my cookies just before I began that online session yesterday, because M$'s crap clogs the Firefox browser. 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: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:43:04 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today You can reset it by deleting the cookie or by setting the default page to gmail. 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 + 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 E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, gets a birthday surprise from Google. (Screengrab) Enlarge 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 grouchesE.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, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOs, and a week’s worth 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 -- Bringing diversity
RE: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today
Gmail is my default page through Firefox. I'd reset my cookies just before I began that online session yesterday, because M$'s crap clogs the Firefox browser. 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: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:43:04 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today You can reset it by deleting the cookie or by setting the default page to gmail. 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 + 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 E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, gets a birthday surprise from Google. (Screengrab) Enlarge 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 grouchesE.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, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOs, and a week’s worth 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 -- Bringing diversity to perversity for over 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Windows Live Hotmail gives you a free,exclusive gift. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_7:092009
RE: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today
Keith, in three words, that's the story of my life. 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: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:39:17 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today 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 + 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 E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, gets a birthday surprise from Google. (Screengrab) Enlarge 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 grouchesE.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, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOs, and a week’s worth 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 _ Windows Live Hotmail is faster and more secure than ever. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_1:092009
Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today
Is it still going there? You will have to manually reset the web address in the browser under the Tools/Options/Main tab then type in the web address of http://www.gmail.com (or http://www.google.com)in the Home page area. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Gmail is my default page through Firefox. I'd reset my cookies just before I began that online session yesterday, because M$'s crap clogs the Firefox browser. 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: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:43:04 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today You can reset it by deleting the cookie or by setting the default page to gmail. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: 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 + 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) Enlargehttp://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 groucheshttp://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1date=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 Gromithttp://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/04/dont-forget-the-wallace-and-gromit-google-doodle/, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOshttp://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/21/hg-wells-the-ufo-google-logo-mystery-is-solved/, and a week’s worthhttp://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
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 + 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 E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, gets a birthday surprise from Google. (Screengrab) Enlarge 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 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, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOs, and a week’s worth 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. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009
Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today
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 + 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 E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye, gets a birthday surprise from Google. (Screengrab) Enlarge 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 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 , H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOs , and a week’s worth 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Popeye Creator's Birthday Recognized in Google Masthead Today
You can reset it by deleting the cookie or by setting the default page to gmail. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: 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 + 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) Enlargehttp://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 groucheshttp://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=1date=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 Gromithttp://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/04/dont-forget-the-wallace-and-gromit-google-doodle/, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOshttp://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/21/hg-wells-the-ufo-google-logo-mystery-is-solved/, and a week’s worthhttp://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 outhttp://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/
