George "Boko" Fittleworth
George "Boko" Fittleworth is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, being an author with a unique dress sense, a member of the Drones Club, and a good friend of Bertie Wooster. He lives in a small cottage in the country village of Steeple Bumpleigh (where also reside Aunt Agatha, Lord Worplesdon, and Florence Craye).
In Joy in the Morning (1946), even the normally unflappable Jeeves was strongly affected at the sight of Boko's grey trousers with a patch on the knee. Bertie described Jeeves, on meeting Boko for the first time, as having "winced visibly and tottered off to the kitchen, no doubt to pull himself together with cooking sherry". Bertie noted that Boko looked like "a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through a hedge backwards" and "dresses like a tramp cyclist".
In the pilot episode of the Jeeves and Wooster television series, Bertie expresses surprise that Lady Glossop doesn't know who Boko is, claiming that he thought everybody knew Boko. He goes on to say that he wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend meeting Boko anyway, describing him as "an acquired taste...at least that's what his mother says."
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