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I'm Popeye the sailor man.

I'm Popeye the sailor man.

I've given up spinach

Cos I'm nearly finished.

As Popeye the sailor man.

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I'm coughing and wheezzing,

Then sweating, then freezing,

Pantin' and puffin'

Which ain't very pleasin'

I wus ready to pack it all in.

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But I'm Popeye the sailor man.

I'm Popeye the sailor man.

I now take my steroids,

And infection I a-voids,

Cos I'm Popeye the sailor man.

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Wonder if Popeye regrets his tattoos..I do ๐Ÿ˜ฃ

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Me too! An amateuurish effort done whilst on a drunken night out doing my National Service with the Royal Engineers. Had to wear long sleeved shirts all the time until I retired.

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HungryHufflepuff

Don you made me laugh. It feels like my body is conspiring against me today, everything seems to be going wrong with it and I was just feeling rather sorry for myself. Your rhyme made me laugh and was just the kick in the derriere that I needed.

The whole spinach and iron thing is a myth anyway, it contains only tiny amounts of iron. Maybe we should take a leaf out of Popeye's book and go with the mind over matter thing.

I hope you have a good day ๐Ÿ‘

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I glad it made you laugh, but if I keep writing stuff like this they are going to come and take me away. :-o

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Strewth! :-o

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Strewth

Is the truth! :D xx

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WheezyAnne

Wonderful. We have just pulled out Spinach up as it had all gone to seed.

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lizzyw

Thankyou for another fun start to the day . My husband does all the cooking and he believes spinach really is good for you so we eat it often but even so I am more like Olive Oil than Popeye ๐Ÿ˜

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sassy59

Excellent as always Don. Xxx

Hi Don ๐ŸŒธ

I โ€˜ve just bought some cooked spinach at the deli Don!! Iโ€™m no sailor and Iโ€™ve got no tattoos ๐Ÿ˜ƒ and no way am I finished! Well hope not anyway ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ€

Enjoy your steroids day, Iโ€™m enjoying mine ๐Ÿ‘

Fran xx

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And don't ever forget it Don. Power to your elbow keep popping them pills. Jane

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Lyd12

Had me worried for a bit there, Don, the rhyme about Popeye I knew as a child was not printable! This one is much better!

Tut...tut! So what were you doing knowing words like that as a child? lol

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MoyB

I'm Popeye the sailor man, I live in a caravan...! Oh dear, back to my childhood. Hope you're not feeling too bad, Don! Thanks for the chuckle. xx Moy

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That's the one Moy - wasn't that bad but wouldn't like to upset anyone!

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Haha! We used to sing it with gusto in the school playground and thought we were really wicked! xx Moy

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skischool

i always had a crush on 'Olive oil' and now many years later the whole world knows she is good for us....

Slippery Ski's and that darn cat x

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Virgin Olive Oil makes you wonder a bit about Popeye though doesnโ€™t it? ๐Ÿ™„

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It's why i don't eat Spinach Don it's like a vegetable vasectomy :)

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I would be limited as to when I eat spinach because I take Adcal. (lots of foods must not be taken within 2 hours each side of Adcal) but I take 1 dose at bed time so well after eating and the other dose when I wake in the night, either to pee or clear the build up of mucus in my throat.

I'm glad I thought this up because fitting in all the inhalers and drugs was getting me down. I was getting to the stage of "I can stands so much but I can stands no more!"

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Very clever Don. I've missed your rhymes as I've been 10 days in hospital again with bilateral pneumonia - your local by the way - they were very good but there's no place like your own bed. Sheila xx

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Oh! So sorry Shelia, I do hope you are over it and feeling more like yourself. I was beginning to think I had lost your custom. You must have been just yards away when I was attending the eye clinic.

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