Popeye’s arch nemesis, Brutus is sometimes called Bluto - Why please?
He’s always been Bluto to me 
Did you know that there once was a chain of burger places named after a Popeye character ,in the UK?
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Wimpy are still going but only in about a dozen places.
None left in Wales.
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I’ve always known him as Brutus too.
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Oh Wimpy bars, I don’t remember if I ever tried them.
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Was Olive Oyl “All Woman”?
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Popeye’s main enemy was originally named Bluto, but his name was changed to Brutus in the 1960s because Paramount Pictures owned the name Bluto. To resolve this, a common practice in later comics was to portray them as twin brothers, with Bluto being the original and Brutus a separate, yet similar, character.
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Did you know that a BBC comedy radio show from the 50’s which influenced lots including The Beatles and Monty Python was named after a character in Popeye?
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No. Put me out of my suspenders please?
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Possibly a bit before your time Brett.
Essential listening for all us youngsters.Boys anyway,I don’t remember any of the girls liking it…
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Alice the Goon - Amazonian Giantess - 8 ft tall, bald, with a large nose reminiscent of a proboscis monkey, no visible mouth, and extremely hairy forearms and legs. 
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I never missed an episode of ‘Popeye’ rushed home from school to watch it at 5:25 pm…Remember it like it was yesterday. I think we only got a telly in 1958 ish and I was 8 years old so I always remember Popeye’s arch enemy as Bluto, never heard him called Brutus…Wasn’t that the bloke who stabbed Julius Caesar in the back…Was it in London? knife crime is not a new thing… 
I remember the ‘Goons’ in Popeye, they used to frighten me… 
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I’ve put this up so after you’ve listened to it it’ll get stuck in a brain loop and you’ll be humming it all day.
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Wasn’t that the name of an aftershave?
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Yes.
A Cockney Henry Cooper. Wooper.
“Spash it Alllllll over 'enery.”
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The aftershave was called Brut…very popular with the teenage boys in the US in the '60s and '70s. Wood scent.
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Same here SGal.
My Tony Curtis 
Quiff.
School cap perched on the back.
Wazz A real Winner. 
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Slightly more on topic…. I ate some spinach recently. Obviously too much. Indigestion pains were horrendous!!!
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Slightly Orf Topic. But worth noting.
Mother Superior, told the girls leaving the Convent School.
“You Must All Try Everything. At least once”.
Yippee. Thanks Mum.
And here am I. Contributing .
As he writes a French Letter.
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