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- From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen)
- Subject: The Sampo in Popeye!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.031807.15668@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:18:07 GMT
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- I don't get CC, so until the recent post I had no idea what the Sampo really
- was. But now that I know it is "little more than a ROCK SALT VENDING MACHINE"
- I can place an earlier appearance.
- In an old Popeye cartoon, back when they were good (which is much longer
- than most of us on this group have been alive), there was a plot in which
- Whimpy (I think) gets a magic salt cellar, and it churns out gold for him. The
- Sea Hag nabs it and commands it to make gold for her. But unfortunately for
- her, it is sapient and recognizes her evil, so churns out salt. LOTS of salt.
- Overflowing the Hag's island and into the sea. And that's How The Seas Got
- Salty. Could this be the Sampo?
- Dave Van Domelen, maybe it was a Popeye-protrayed historicicle charikter
- who had the Sampo....
-