BubbaBlue
09-19-2006, 08:25 PM
Popeye The Sailor Dead at 77
Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 06:38:46 PM PDT
A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide bacterial outbreak that has killed one cartoon celebrity and sickened nearly 100 people.
The fatality has now been identified as Popeye TheSailorman, of Sweethaven, CA., who was known to buy his spinach at Natural Selection Foods, based in San Juan Bautista, Calif., where the outbreak is believed to have originated.
After complaining of severe gas pains, Popeye was rushed to The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he finally dropped anchor. Popeye's stepson, Sweetpea theSailorman, has asked the press to respect his family's privacy.
Popeye's first wife, Olive Oyl, died in a mysterious spear-fishing accident off the Florida Keys. His six other marriages ended in divorce.
The animation star leaves a fortune estimated at more than $680 million from proceeds of the sale of the fried chicken franchise that bears his name. Popeye's long time companion, J. Wellington Wimpy, with whom it is generally believed he had a homosexual relationship throughout the years, stands to inherit the bulk of the estate under California's liberal domestic partner laws.
The death sent shockwaves through the often indistinguishable worlds of cartoons and politics. Rep. Nancy Pelosi said the incident illustrates the need for farm workers to have Porta-Johns in the fields at all times, as the absence of toilet tissue makes spinach leaves "an all too attractive and deadly alternative." A distraught cartoon President George W. Bush was visibly shaken upon hearing the news and has gone into seclusion. Aides say the president thinks "evildoers" are responsible and has vowed to track them down.
FDA officials stressed that the bacteria had not been isolated in products sold by Natural Selection Foods but that the link was established by patient accounts of what they had eaten before becoming ill.
An investigation is continuing.
Popeye TheSailor is to be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 06:38:46 PM PDT
A California natural foods company was linked Friday to a nationwide bacterial outbreak that has killed one cartoon celebrity and sickened nearly 100 people.
The fatality has now been identified as Popeye TheSailorman, of Sweethaven, CA., who was known to buy his spinach at Natural Selection Foods, based in San Juan Bautista, Calif., where the outbreak is believed to have originated.
After complaining of severe gas pains, Popeye was rushed to The National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he finally dropped anchor. Popeye's stepson, Sweetpea theSailorman, has asked the press to respect his family's privacy.
Popeye's first wife, Olive Oyl, died in a mysterious spear-fishing accident off the Florida Keys. His six other marriages ended in divorce.
The animation star leaves a fortune estimated at more than $680 million from proceeds of the sale of the fried chicken franchise that bears his name. Popeye's long time companion, J. Wellington Wimpy, with whom it is generally believed he had a homosexual relationship throughout the years, stands to inherit the bulk of the estate under California's liberal domestic partner laws.
The death sent shockwaves through the often indistinguishable worlds of cartoons and politics. Rep. Nancy Pelosi said the incident illustrates the need for farm workers to have Porta-Johns in the fields at all times, as the absence of toilet tissue makes spinach leaves "an all too attractive and deadly alternative." A distraught cartoon President George W. Bush was visibly shaken upon hearing the news and has gone into seclusion. Aides say the president thinks "evildoers" are responsible and has vowed to track them down.
FDA officials stressed that the bacteria had not been isolated in products sold by Natural Selection Foods but that the link was established by patient accounts of what they had eaten before becoming ill.
An investigation is continuing.
Popeye TheSailor is to be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.