Comment on May 11th, 2007.
I went out with a Jenkins for a year in college (although I didn't call her that).
Comment on May 11th, 2007.
I am having difficulty wrapping my head around the idea of women named Jenkins.
Comment on May 12th, 2007.
Then you should meet my friend Rebecca Jenkins who absolutely does exist, and ives in a very nice small town in the middle of nowhere. Also, her father David, famous in England in the 1980s as the atheist bishop of Durham.
Perhaps I am cheating, living so close to Wales.
And the narrator of Anthony Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time" is called Jenkins, too.
Comment on May 12th, 2007.
"I'm sorry, Jenkins, but I don't think the public is ready for an atheist bishop."
Comment on May 12th, 2007.
My third grade teacher was Mrs. Jenkins.
I've got the "complete New Yorker cartoons" on CD-ROM, so I searched and found the first "Jenkins" cartoon. It's from 1925, the first year of the magazine. It shows a wealthy man getting ready for bed, and his liveried servant is setting an alarm clock attached to a huge pipe organ. The caption is "Just set the organ for ten, Jenkins, I gotta be up early t'morra". The cartoon is by Rea Gardner.
Here are the others I've found: 1932: 12/31/32 Helen Hokinson, "Good news, Mrs. Jenkins! 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' comes to you next." (matron)
12/18/37: John Ruge, "Watkins, get Williams, Jenkins and Victor, and throw another log on the fire. (servant)
1/18/41: Gardner, "Jenkins, just dash out and whisk this jacket through the stables." (servant)
5/5/45: Mischa Richter, "Confound you, Jenkins! Er - I mean, ha ha. Accidents will happen, old fellow." (servant)
8/15/53: James Mulligan, "I admire a man who has the courage of his convictions, Jenkins, but don't let me see you around here again in those damn shorts." (office)
12/8/56, Robert J. Day, "If it's all the same to you, Jenkins, we'll just dispense with the 'Gesundheit's around here." (employee)
12/21/57: Joseph Mirachi: "Please, Professor Jenkins! Forty centuries are looking down upon us." (archaeologists)
4/25/59: James Stevenson: "Hello, Carlisle, what the hell's going on around here? Jenkins tells me Universal Copper's raiding our executives. You're my Executive V.P., so you're supposed to watch out for this kind of thing, Carlisle ... Carlisle? ... Carlisle!" (executive)
12/23/61: Whitney Darrow, Jr., "This is a family-owned business, Jenkins, and you may as well get used to it." (employee)
1/21/67: Joseph Mirachi, "If I give you a raise because you deserve one, Jenkins, then I'll have to give a raise to every Tom, Dick, and Harry who deserves one." (office/employee)
8/12/72: Al Ross, "You mean you're asking me, John Jenkins, for my opinion on how to go about fixing all those things up?" (bartender, talking to Uncle Sam)
4/21/73: Henry Martin, "And here he is! Rip Jenkins, rising young performer and frequent guest on the late-night talk shows. Please welcome him!" (guy returning from work; wife)
11/18/74: H Martin "Good evening. Mrs. Sloan Baker, Jr., sprains an ankle. The Honourable Herbert L. Jenkins changes a tire. Edna Mae Gibbons reveals a job change. Those are the headlines. I'll be back with the details right after this important message." (guy listening to radio)
2/10/75: Warren Miller. "Mr. Jenkins is en sauna. Can I have him call you back?" (executive)
9/15/75: Charles Barsotti. "What's this, Jenkins? Are you absent today or something?" (office)
9/29/75: Lee Lorenz "Jenkins, how would you like a chance to quit at the top of your game?" (office)
11/10/75: Al Ross. "You're the personnel manager, Jenkins. Where the devil's the personnel?" (office)
2/2/76: Jack Ziegler. "Everything's under control at my end, Jenkins. Is everything
under control at your end?" (guy at tropical beach resort)
10/24/77: Ziegler. "I hope we've learned a little lesson here today, Jenkins." (office; guys
with matching ties; speaker holding scissors and lower half of other guy's tie)
7/16/79: Bill Woodman. "Nice touch, Jenkins. I like a man who salutes." (office)
2/11/80: David Pascal. "Miss Jenkins, would you please bring a round object into my office?"
(rectilinear office furniture)
2/28/83 Frank Modell "Miss Jenkins, is anyone out there waiting to tangle with me?" (office)
6/6/83: Eldon Dedini. "Hi. I'm Lou Jenkins, and this is my wife, Mary Lou Jenkins."
3/26/84: Robert Mankoff. "Any plaudits for me while I was out, Miss Jenkins?"
10/15/01: Matthew Diffee "Jenkins and Caldwell, take a lap -- and that goes for anyone else
I catch swing dancing." (football practice)
1/21/02: Matthew Diffee "I'm sorry, Mr. Jenkins doesn't like you." (office)
9/15/03: Ziegler. "Jenkins, read me back the minutes from the last dip." (swimming pool
board meeting)
So the winner of the "most Jenkinses" award is Ziegler, with three.
Comment on May 13th, 2007.
There was an archetypally bike-riding professor at W&M named Jenkins, who continued to teach creative writing until the approximate age of one hundred and forty-two.
Comment on May 15th, 2007.
I am late acknowledging this, Ahkond, but I am delighted by the Jenkins research. Thank you!
Comment on May 17th, 2007.
Wow, I'm impressed by the Jenkins research too.
I like the name, being Welsh and all, but now it makes me think of those collage gin ads with Mr Jenkins doing some naughty thing.
Recently my husband's mother married a man named Jenkins and has changed her name, so it has an extra shocking effect now.
Comment on May 24th, 2007.
In Lawrence of Arabia, Norman Rossington as Corporal Jenkins falls off a galumphing camel in full view of the tiny Arab army, after a raggamuffin jabs his camel under the tail. Jenkins' superior, Anthony Quayle, disgusted by the loss of British military dignity, recites Jenkins' name as Jenkins loses control of the camel, starts to slide off, and finally lands on his back in the sand: "JENkins! ... JENKINS! ... oh, Jenkins!"
Comment on May 25th, 2007.
I may have to make a Jenkins page.
Comment on May 25th, 2007.
Jenkins is a Toronto-based cartoonist for the Globe and Mail.
Comment on May 25th, 2007.
(Hello Scraps, the above came from me)
Comment on May 25th, 2007.
Hello!
Comment on June 23rd, 2007.
I'm a Jenkins.... Anthony Jenkins, a cartoonist in Toronto Canada, work seen for decades in the Globe and Mail , Canada's National Newspaper. I' a 'fine' artist as well . Both my cartoons( caricatures in particular) and fine artcon are on view at www.jenkinsdraws.com
FYI Actor Richard Burton, was born ( In Wales) Richard Jenkins.
Comment on June 23rd, 2007.
Hello! I had been told of your existence and went to look at your work (which I enjoyed). Thanks for checking in!
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