Who the heck is Beau Brummell?
May. 7th, 2004 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrsbrownToday at work I read this article while sitting in the lunch room with a bunch of other people. It featured this quote:'
I looked up, about to read it to someone and exclaim over the fact that I knew what the writer was talking about and how clever I am, when I stopped, looked at the twenty-something who's a fitness fanatic, and the 50-something who probably doesn't read the sort of books I do, and I stopped myself.
So I'm exclaiming here, and then I'm going to bed
He was something of a dandy, always sporting yellow socks. In fact, his house in Mayfair had once been the home of Beau Brummell.
I looked up, about to read it to someone and exclaim over the fact that I knew what the writer was talking about and how clever I am, when I stopped, looked at the twenty-something who's a fitness fanatic, and the 50-something who probably doesn't read the sort of books I do, and I stopped myself.
So I'm exclaiming here, and then I'm going to bed
