Popeye
stricken by tainted spinach

By
John Breneman

Cartoon legend Popeye the Sailor Man is in stable condition
at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he is recovering after sucking
several cans of bad spinach through his corncob pipe.

The 77-year-old Popeye, a colorful spokesman and lobbyist
for the spinach industry, defied FDA warnings that more than
130
people have fallen ill from a deadly outbreak E. coli
attributed to the leafy, iron-rich vegetable.

The muttering, one-eyed muscleman, who credits a spinach-based
diet with giving him steroid-style forearms and super-human
strength, claimed the spinach scare may be the work of his
arch-nemesis Bluto, perhaps as part of yet another scheme
to steal Popeye’s girl, the floss-thin anoerxia poster girl,
Olive Oyl.

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