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Over the past year or so I have noticed the word Dude has found its way into our vocabulary....to preface salutations, statements, questions and answers as well!

But Women calling women Dudes? Men calling women Dudes? I can can almost understand it from surfer boys in thier 20s... but a 50 year old man calling a 50 year old woman Dude... is ... bizarre!

It all seems very strange to me.... as I havent fallen into the Dude habit... but today it hit me... it reminds me of the 60s and 70s when the word Man had the same role!

My question is... how or why do we allow ourselves to pick up a habit in our conversation which has no value?

Dunno... but I know I use the word dude a lot.

It's, like, really, like cool to use a word like, "Dude". Like.


Can you tell which word annoys me?

Dude I have no idea what you talking about.

I don't know dude.

Well, dudette, what would you expect from BN?

buffettbride wrote:Well, dudette, what would you expect from BN?

I just checked the weather... and came back to the post and just shook my head!

I use the word dude a lot. I think we had a discussion here one time and by popular vote, the women of BN (Hey that could be a specail edition of playboy) said they hated the word dudette.

As I recall, "dude" was very much a part of the vernacular back in the 60s and 70s too but you know what they say, "if you remember that time period you probably weren't even there" (or words to that effect).

PHBeerman wrote:I use the word dude a lot. I think we had a discussion here one time and by popular vote, the women of BN (Hey that could be a specail edition of playboy) said they hated the word dudette.

I don't mind dudette. Usually I get called dude though by my BN/BW boys. I dunno. I don't have a preference either way because there's a lot WORSE things they could be calling me.

My Favorite Dude
Dude" Lebowski

ToplessRideFL wrote:

buffettbride wrote:Well, dudette, what would you expect from BN?

I just checked the weather... and came back to the post and just shook my head!

Get over it, dude.

I did a search and we have 243 search pages of posts that contain the word dude.


Mal seems to be the largest propagator of the word as well.

ToplessRideFL wrote:My question is... how or why do we allow ourselves to pick up a habit in our conversation which has no value?

Why ask why dude? Just do it!

I think I use dude for 2 scenarios...

Dude!! = holy crap did you see that!!!

or

Dude? = what the heck, why are you being such a pain in the butt?

~~~

On a similar note, my daughter asked me last night why I say "yo" all the time... Common scenarios...

Keet: "Mom?"
Me: "Yo?" = yes, may I help you?

or

Me: Yo! = hey dude, what's up?

PHBeerman wrote:I did a search and we have 243 search pages of posts that contain the word dude.


Mal seems to be the largest propagator of the word as well.

I am most definitely a dude whore.

Tiki Bar wrote:

ToplessRideFL wrote:My question is... how or why do we allow ourselves to pick up a habit in our conversation which has no value?

Why ask why dude? Just do it!

I think I use dude for 2 scenarios...

Dude!! = holy crap did you see that!!!

or

Dude? = what the heck, why are you being such a pain in the butt?

~~~

On a similar note, my daughter asked me last night why I say "yo" all the time... Common scenarios...

Keet: "Mom?"
Me: "Yo?" = yes, may I help you?

or

Me: Yo! = hey dude, what's up?

I have a couple of PMs to prove this.

Q: Is the word 'chick' no longer a part of our working vocabulary?
(Maybe that's why 'dude' is doing double duty...)

... btw I get more strange looks for using the word 'man' than for 'dude' ...

PHBeerman wrote:

Tiki Bar wrote:

ToplessRideFL wrote:My question is... how or why do we allow ourselves to pick up a habit in our conversation which has no value?

Why ask why dude? Just do it!

I think I use dude for 2 scenarios...

Dude!! = holy crap did you see that!!!

or

Dude? = what the heck, why are you being such a pain in the butt?

~~~

On a similar note, my daughter asked me last night why I say "yo" all the time... Common scenarios...

Keet: "Mom?"
Me: "Yo?" = yes, may I help you?

or

Me: Yo! = hey dude, what's up?

I have a couple of PMs to prove this.

bravedave wrote:Q: Is the word 'chick' no longer a part of our working vocabulary?
(Maybe that's why 'dude' is doing double duty...)

... btw I get more strange looks for using the word 'man' than for 'dude' ...

I use chicklet or chiquita frequently in it's place... (now wondering what I must sound like to talk to! )

Tiki Bar wrote:

bravedave wrote:Q: Is the word 'chick' no longer a part of our working vocabulary?
(Maybe that's why 'dude' is doing double duty...)

... btw I get more strange looks for using the word 'man' than for 'dude' ...

I use chicklet or chiquita frequently in it's place... (now wondering what I must sound like to talk to! )

I use chicky-poo as well, as well as hoochie-momma.