Washington DC Adult Entertainment: I was Betty Draper
Written on July 23, 2010 – 9:49 pm | by larrylibido
American Movie Classics January Jones as Betty Draper in “Mad Men” “Are you going off to be a Mad Man?” I asked my husband as he downed the last of his coffee, slid his laptop into its case, and headed for the door. “No,” he said, giving his shirttail a final tug. “But I’m about to be an Irritated Man.” I can’t blame him. Since “Mad Men” entered the cultural consciousness, I have harassed my husband, an advertising creative director, with a multitude of questions, mostly of the facetious variety. “No,” he replies, with diminishing patience, “I don’t start drinking at 10 a.m., I’m not allowed to use my expense account for prostitutes, I don’t compulsively pat the bottoms of secretaries at work. We don’t even have secretaries anymore. That’s a profession whose time has passed, like silversmiths and fletchers and the people who make barrels.” “Coopers,” I say. “A person who makes barrels is called a cooper. As in …
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