"Well blow me down!" said the groom as he was hauled away from the reception by police. "What gives, ossifer? Ug-ug-ug!"

Popeye was to be questioned after a Saturday night brawl that resulted in the hospitalization of Bluto J. Brutus, a wedding guest and scorned ex-beau of Oyl who picked Popeye up and inserted him inside a blender given as a wedding gift from Poopdeck Pappy, father of the groom.

"I've had alls I can stands, and I can't stands no more," the Blender-encased Popeye is reported to have uttered before using his corncob pipe to suck spinach from a well-placed tin can.

Witnesses say the Sailor, a longtime resident of coast town Sweet Haven, then punched Brutus, sending him up a tree where his head hit a branch and went off like a school bell.

His forearms grotesquely enlarged, Popeye then pummeled Brutus till little birdies and stars danced around his glazed eyes.

"I biffs 'em and bites 'em, and always outfights 'em. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. Toot. Toot," Popeye is quoted as singing over Brutus' body. He is to be arraigned Monday on assault charges.