Bluto his spinach. In yet other cartoons the two characters are evenly matched with Bluto eventually winning before Popeye eats his spinach, as in the 1934 short, "We Aim to Please". In some shorts Bluto is a match for Popeye even after he has eaten his spinach, as in 1935's "Pleased to Meet Cha". Bluto is often portrayed as having a glass jaw. He has, on occasion, been knocked out by Olive Oyl and even by Popeye's infant ward Swee'Pea. Bluto is generally portrayed as of low intelligence, typically acting without thinking and utilizing brute force, which often signals his defeat
My postillion has been struck by lightning Place Like Home", a phrasebook from "the era of Imperial Russia" contains the "magnificent" line: "Oh, dear, our postillion has been struck by lightning!". Thurber speculates that such a "fantastic piece of disaster" must have been rare, "even in the days of the Czars". Thurber heard of the quote from "an writer in a London magazine". In James Michener's 1954 novel Sayonara, the heroine Hana-Ogi tries to learn a little English from a phrasebook to communicate with her American lover and based on its recommendation starts with this phrase, much to his bewilderment. "The Postilion Has Been Struck By Lightning"