Note for all nlpers

[Poodle]

Today is Betty Boop's birthday. How old do you think she is (without looking it up on-line)?

Happy Birthday~Pood

PS - Today is Tuesday, August 9th, 2011.

[Don]

It's a trick question. She's not real so she never ages. However her first appearance was 81 years ago.

Here's a question (and not a joke): Why did Betty Boop sue Popeye?

[Poodle]

but you do have the age correct. 36 years or so ago NLP found her (it) (them?) and she has been around for 81 and no one else really bothered or so we are told.

Popeye was my bros. favorite :love: and he ate cans of spinach so he would grow up strong like Popeye. Little kids!!

News tonite said science now believes babies will eat what mother eats before they are born. This cannot be true. My brother and I both HATE the stuff Mom loved. Never had candy or pop in the house unless at Grandma's -- she had both. We LOVE both. We don't eat beets, cooked cabbage and other things Mom loved. So much for science.

nite~Pood

[Don]

The value of spinach to Popeye was based on a mistake. The U.S. Government was afraid that children weren't getting enough iron in their diets. I believe (could be mistaken) that a German researcher listed the iron content in spinach and either he (or the translation to English) made a mistake, saying that there was something like 10 times the iron content in spinach than it actually had. Popeye was enlisted by the government (i.e., they requested the studio's help) to popularize spinach with children so they'd get plenty of iron. The publicity worked (as with your bro), and although spinach has nutrition value, it's nowhere close to what the government thought.

Anyone figured out why Betty Book sued Popeye? Hint: it has to do with one of the characters in the Popeye cartoons and not Popeye himself.

[Poodle]

girlfriend is Olive Oil....the new word in cooking today. And, there was Sweet Pea too. Don't know what either would have to do with Betty? :confused: I guess spinach is proof that cartoons work for kids.

[Don]

Yes, (the producers of) Betty Boop sued (the producers of) Popeye because of "Olive Oyl" (correct spelling of her name).

But why?

:-)

[Poodle]

she was kinda dog like with long ears. Those ears may have conflicted in someway with the poofs Olive O. had on both sides of her face. Betty obviously wasn't getting kids to eat spinach. Neither did Blondie.
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[Don]

Close. Betty's people sued Popeye's people because Olive Oyl sounded so much like Betty. The actor was the same woman.

Most people don't remember that Blondie was originally a liberated flapper. Over the decades she became a more demure housefrau.

[John B.]

Close. Betty's people sued Popeye's people because Olive Oyl sounded so much like Betty. The actor was the same woman.


Mae Questel was the voice of both (also played Aunt Bethany in "Christmas Vacation"). I didn't know there was a lawsuit involved. That's interesting because the both Betty Boop and the early Popeye's from Paramount were animated by the Fleisher Studios. I always thought that was how Mae picked up the Olive Oyl gig.

The Betty Boop character was based upon real-life singer Helen Kane who was known the Boop-Boop-A-Doop girl.

Here's Helen singing "I want to be loved by you" complete with boop-a-doops
http://youtu.be/rI275t9BNJo

Kane did sue the Fleishers over the character and lost.

Those Boop cartoons are very surrealistic, imaginative and quite different in style from what Disney was doing. Watching them now as adult is a much different experience than as a child. Amazing.

Thank you for providing the opportunity to unload all this trivia. I feel so much lighter now.

[Poodle]

Whimpie(spelling) always wanting a hamburger and I think the man with whiskers was Brutus? that also loved OO.

I found Gasoline Alley in a magazine I was reading last eve.

I'm getting seriously OLD!!

[ChrisH]

Interestingly, from an NLP point of view, Betty Boop cartoons contain probably the earliest examples of eye accessing.

[Poodle]

We are NLP Trainers here so we know all about Betty. I was hoping your post was from Chris Hall. Guess I missed that one, huh?

Thank you for mentioning that as there are many readers that don't have a clue about NLP, accessing cues, etc.

Be well~Poodle :pood: