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  Bringing up Father - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The strip was about an Irishman named Jiggs living in the United States who comes into wealth but still wants to keep his old pals, eat corned beef and cabbage, and hang out at the tavern, much to the consternation of his wife, Maggie, a social climber.
One of McManus's friends, restaurateur James Moore, believed he was the inspiration for the character Dinty Moore, owner of Jiggs' favorite tavern.
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters - 1949
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bringing_Up_Father   (405 words)

  
 The Holloway Pages: Bringing Up Father   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jiggs, on the other hand, spent much of his campaign promising city jobs to his old buddies, though he had to reconsider his pick for the police commissioner's job when his first choice had to skip town because the police were looking for him.
Maggie is her obtrusively effusive self, and Jiggs anticipates bestowing the traditional, albeit late, kiss for the pretty bride.
Maggie's search for her grandfather's gold (assisted somewhat ineffectually by the old man's ghost), is opposed by outlaw Snake Bite Carter, who is acting under the direction of the Big Boss.
home.comcast.net /~cjh5801a/Jiggs.htm   (8186 words)

  
 Angels unaware
Moreover, Maggie was the first-born child and first-born children are almost always special to the parents.
"Maggie and Jiggs" appeared in the Hearst newspapers; Jiggs was a Mason and Maggie was a washerwoman.
Maggie's birth saw the 16th amendment pass which levied the income tax that we all know about today.
www.jfkimmons.com /Family/Mag1.htm   (561 words)

  
 Stevens Magic Emporium
A half dollar, representing Jiggs, is marked by a spectator as the story begins.
"Jiggs" is placed into the small slide representing the home of Jiggs and Maggie.
When Maggie comes looking for Jiggs, she opens first one door and then the next (as the coin is obviously slid from side to side to hide behind the one closed door.) Finally both doors are opened at the same time-Jiggs is not there." Maggie goes home to find Jiggs smoking his cigar.
www.stevensmagic.com /shopping/shopexd.asp?id=1477   (178 words)

  
 The Brownsville Herald » Zoo welcomes two newborns to exhibits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Jiggs and Maggie were captured in West Africa in 1970 and 1971, and Geraldine was born in captivity in 1973.
Some zoos report that their animals fight when they are housed together, but Stones said relations between Maggie, Jiggs and Geraldine are fine.
A pygmy hippo’s life span is about 35 years, but Stones believes that Maggie and Jiggs must be nearly 40 years old already.
www.brownsvilleherald.com /print.php?id=56872_0_10_0   (483 words)

  
 A tribute to St. Patrick: tender corned beef the smart, lazy way - includes recipes on Irish cooking Sunset - Find ...
Wife Maggie, on the other hand, had social aspirations; she planted a silk top hat on her husband's head and banned his beloved corned beef in their mansion.
Invariably, though, her moments of triumph in society were blown by Jiggs's secret attempts to boil a hunk of corned beef.
If Jiggs had just used the oven, he could've joined Maggie and their guests and diverted their attention as his untended corned beef baked discreetly, with little bouquet but exceptionally tender results.
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 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Bringing Up Father
He remembered it years later, when, after a string of well-received comics for the Pulitzer papers (including, among others, Nibsy the Newsboy and The Newlyweds), he was working for King Features and needed a theme for a new strip.
On January 12, 1913, he debuted Bringing Up Father, about an Irishman named Jiggs, who doesn't understand why his ascension to wealth means he can't hang out with his friends, and his nagging, social-climbing wife, Maggie.
Jiggs and Maggie were never great comic book stars.
www.toonopedia.com /jiggs.htm   (529 words)

  
 MAE NHW'N D'WEDYD
Maggie and Jiggs were cartoon charactes in the early-mid 20th century.
The Scottish dialect title means "strong Maggie" and dates from the mid‑17th century when new words were adapted to the tune by John O'Neachtan about the year 1676.
Maggie Shanley was a musician from the County Limerick/Kerry border area.
www.ibiblio.org /fiddlers/MAE_MAIB.htm   (2768 words)

  
 maggie jiggs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
After the passing of "Maggie and Jiggs," I still remember radios with ruddy glowing tubes, And an ex-Marine Principal named Elmer E. Dubes.
Maggie Berry is a web editor living in San Francisco and is famous among dozens.
Maggie has now graduated from her obedience school where she came in #2 in her class.
edipbaser.info /maggie-jiggs   (593 words)

  
 TEN OF PENTACLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Maggie and Jiggs and little Jiggs are encircled by ten large pentacles.
Maggie and Jiggs have created a new branch of their family tree.
Little Jiggs has inherited the genetics and idiosyncrasies of his parents and he is a nice integration of them both.
www.dickiemotherwell.com /webs/mystic/tenofpentacles.htm   (236 words)

  
 McCook Daily Gazette: Story: Harold Blaine 'Jiggs' Summers
Harold Blaine "Jiggs" Summers died on Nov. 30, 2004, at the Legacy Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin, Ore., after a short illness related to Parkinson's Disease.
His father always read him the cartoon "Maggie and Jiggs" from the newspaper "funnies" and started calling him "Jiggs" when he was a very small boy.
To this day he is still known as "Jiggs" to his family and friends.
www.mccookgazette.com /story/1083684.html   (449 words)

  
 Mound Valley, Elko County, Nevada
Jiggs the only 'town' in Mound Valley, has had six different names through time.
The current name is taken from the Maggie and Jiggs comic strip.
The Skelton Hotel in Jiggs is only one of five places in Elko County listed in the Nevada State Register of Historic Places.
www.elkorose.com /moundvalley.html   (2037 words)

  
 TWO OF CUPS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Maggie and Jiggs share two cups of milk.
Maggie and Jiggs represent the balance found in the Yin and the Yang and they nourish each other with the good things in life.
Maggie and Jiggs have learned to anticipate each other’s thoughts and feelings and there relationship is enhanced by this sensitivity.
www.dickiemotherwell.com /webs/mystic/twoofcups.htm   (232 words)

  
 Elko County Place Names
Jiggs: Its name comes from the popular comic strip of the time, "Maggie and Jiggs." The town was called Skelton from 1884-1922, from Cynthia Skelton, the mother of Valley Paddock who raised horses in the vicinity.
Maggie Creek: (Near Carlin) On early maps the stream was called Robin's Creek or Martin's Fork.
A Scotch family, on their overland trek to California in 1849, camped near the stream and named it Maggie after one their little girls.
www.outbacknevada.us /hickson/names.html   (2157 words)

  
 Live Auctioneers - Morphy Auction Fall Sale 2005
Maggie And Jiggs Fighting Squeeze Toy Made in Germany.
Maggie And Jiggs Fighting Toy With Original Box Windup mechanism...
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 The Fortunate One - Page 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Air Force wore and also painted on the fighter planes.
"Jiggs" from the "Maggie and Jiggs" comics was the mascot painted on the bomber planes.
And everyone in the China Burma India also wore the CBI patch, the sun, star, stripe patch.
home.comcast.net /~jbmarshall1/page19.htm   (213 words)

  
 MAGGIE AND JIGGS - BRINGING DOWN FATHER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Tough law enforcement against "wife beaters." Statutes that make it easy for wives to tactically eject husbands from the family home on claims that he's violent.
That's been funny since the 1930's "Bringing Up Father" comic strip made fun of Maggie beating up on Jiggs.
The September 19, 1997 ABC 20/20 Television Report by Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs expressed amazement that there was such a thing as an abused husband.
www.ncfc.net /magjig.html   (191 words)

  
 Comic Strip & cartoon characters
SNUFFY SMITH KFS comic strip character, circa 1934 1945, artist Fred Lasswell.
MAGGIE and JIGGS comic strip characters, circa1920-1930.  Artist George McManus.
MAGGIE and JIGGS,  daughter NORA and JIGGS best buddy DINTY MOORE.  circa 1930.  Comic strip "Bringing up Father", artist George McManus.
chalkman.homestead.com /Comic.html   (450 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Jiggs and Maggie out West : Main
Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West.
(Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Maggie, who head thataway when Maggie inherits a goldmine.
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www.vh1.com /movies/movie/63042/moviemain.jhtml   (114 words)

  
 DITKO LOOKED UP - 'Ann and Will Eisner' Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
DITKO LOOKED UP - 'Ann and Will Eisner' Page 2
"My father would bring home the Sunday Funnies,” says Ann, “and we would read them avidly - the Katzenjammer Kids, The Timid Soul, Tillie the Toiler, Little Orphan Annie, Maggie and Jiggs, and that ilk.
I didn't care for most of the toys that girls of my age played with, such as dolls.
www.ditko.comics.org /ditko/newWILa2.html   (668 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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The cartoon characters Maggie and Jiggs are brought to the screen in the form of Riano and Yule.
Their slapstick antics are in evidence as they climb up the social ladder and on the way find themselves mingling with a gang of jewel thieves.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=2543   (127 words)

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