From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   In the 1947 cartoon, "Popeye and the Pirates," twice a pipsqueak pirate -- not   
   a   
   regular Popeye character -- inserts himself into the scene and says the line,   
   "good evening, friends."  The word 'friends' is elongated.  The tone rises with   
   the first three syllables and falls on the last.  The delivery and placement   
   suggests that this is supposed to be funny, or at least humorous, probably an   
   imitation of some other character's or entertainer's catch phrase.  But I don't   
   recognize it at all.  Does anybody know what this is a reference to?   
      
   I found this fragment on Youtube, but it doesn't show the whole line.  I don't   
   know where else to see it apart from buying it.   
      
   Popeye and the Pirates -- Original Ending   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhw3x8PSlXc   
      
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   I'd let you watch -- I would invite you -- but the queens we use   
   would not excite you   
      
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