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Anonymous ID: 2c00d0 Sept. 22, 2018, 12:20 p.m. No.3141047   🗄️.is 🔗kun

This was the inspiration for the meme I created about her gladly showing up on Tuesday for a 24 hour delay today.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Wellington_Wimpy

 

Wimpy is Popeye's friend. In the cartoons, he mainly plays the role of the "straight man" to Popeye's outbursts and wild antics. Wimpy is soft-spoken, romantic, very intelligent, and well educated, but also cowardly, very lazy, overly parsimonious and utterly gluttonous. He is also something of a scam artist and, especially in the newspaper strip, can be underhanded. However, his plans always succeed, and he lives off the land through his ill-gotten gains. Although Wimpy is almost a tramp, he pretends to be a member of a high social status. In addition to mooching hamburgers, he picks up discarded cigars from the sidewalk, but is embarrassed to do so. Popeye tries to reform his character, being a good natured soul with a strong set of morals, but Wimpy never reforms. Popeye often becomes "disgustipated" with Wimpy, but puts up with him for the most part and sometimes even tricks Wimpy, although rarely.

 

Hamburgers are Wimpy's all-time favorite food, and he is usually seen carrying or eating one or more at a time – e.g., in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor he is seen grinding meat or eating burgers almost the entire time – however, he is usually too cheap to pay for them himself. A recurring joke involves Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons of Rough House's diner into buying his meal for him. His best-known catchphrase started in 1931 as, "Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Thursday." In 1932, this then became the famous, "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

 

Rough House explains why Wimpy is able to get away with this tactic in one strip, stating that "He never comes around on Tuesday".