Well, all I know is that when I was a kid, "Dude" was considered an insult. Somebody with pretentions, usually stupid ones. Kind of like the kids that use it today.... (tongue in cheek)

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mapson wrote:

At 05:54 PM 4/02/2004 +1000, you wrote:

Yes, my step-son's partner calls _me_ Dude too!




And 2 more pieces of dude-trivia

some of my students last year claimed that DUDE means camel's penis (even though I failed to find any linguistic confirmation of it)

some time ago there was a song called "don't call me dude" ;-)


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