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 Portuguese-English phrasebook:The phrase-book for Portuguese learners of English which included the often-quoted and bizarre sentence 'Pardon me, but your postillion has been struck by lightning' demonstrates a total lack of sense of context: who can have said this, to whom and in what circumstances? By contrast a linguistics textbook mentions the supposedly "apocryphal" phrase during a description of foreign language teaching in "the schoolrooms of Europe at the close of the nineteenth century":[S]entences—especially constructed to contain only the grammar and vocabulary which had already been covered—were laboriously translated, in writing, into and out of the student's first language. Such sentences,