Dude!!!!

[cloudy]

Yeah, but it still dates to Ridgemont High, which was a teen angst movie that antedates Bill &Ted and Wayne's World.

I heard it in the 'seventies, but not the way it's used now. We might have said, "That dude needs to get laid, man." or "He's one outta sight dude."

"Dudettes" is just lame, for me.

Nope, been around a whole lot longer than Fast Times, and Spiccoli, too. And, it was in it's present incarnation too...just maybe not everywhere that early. In SoCal, yes.

 

[Guest]

I could be wrong but I seem to remember hearing it in some of the Frankie & Annette movies from the sixties. But just remember. It was there before any movie made it popular. More often Hollywood borrows from real world than the other way around.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Yeah, but it still dates to Ridgemont High, which was a teen angst movie that antedates Bill &Ted and Wayne's World.

I heard it in the 'seventies, but not the way it's used now. We might have said, "That dude needs to get laid, man." or "He's one outta sight dude."

"Dudettes" is just lame, for me.

Sigh. Why can't I meet a guy that uses a word like "antedates?"

 

[Guest]

Sigh. Why can't I meet a guy that uses a word like "antedates?"

I think you just did.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I think you just did.

 

[minsue]

Damn, I'm lyric happy today,

but it's not my fault! The damn song starts going through my head every time the thread gets bumped!

Comfort Eagle
- Cake

We are building a religion
We are building it bigger
We are widening the corridors
And adding more lanes

We are building a religion
A limited edition
We are now accepting callers
for the pendant key chains

To resist it is useless
It is useless to resist it
His cigarette is burning
But he never seems to ash

He is grooming his poodle
He is living comfort eagle
You can meet at his location
But you better come with cash

Now his hat is on backwards
He can show you his tatoos
He is in the music business
He is calling you "DUDE!"

Now today is tomorrow
And tomorrow today
And yesterday is weaving in and out

And the fluffy white lines
That the airplane leaves behind
Are drifting right in front
of the waining of the moon

He is handling the money
He's serving the food
He knows about your party
He is calling you "DUDE!"

Now do you believe
In the one big sign
The doublewide shine
On the bootheels of your prime

Doesn't matter if you're skinny
Doesn't matter if you're fat
You can dress up like a sultan
In your onion head hat

We are building a religion
We are making a brand
We're the only ones to turn to
When your castles turn to sand

Take a bite of this apple
Mr. corporate invents
Take a walk through the jungle
Of cardboard shanties and tents

Some people drink Pepsi
Some people drink Coke
The wacky morning DJ
Says democracy's a joke

He says now do you believe
In the one big song
He's now accepting callers
Who would like to sing along

She says, do you believe
In the one true edge
By fastening your safety belts
And stepping towards the ledge

He is handling the money
He is serving the food
He is now accepting callers
He is calling me "DUDE!"

Now do you believe
In the one big sign
The doublewide shine
On the bootheels of your prime

There's no need to ask directions
If you ever lose your mind
We're behind you
We're behind you
And let us please remind you
We can send a car to find you
If you ever lose your way

We are building a religion

We are building it bigger

We are building

A religion

A limited

Edition

We are now accepting callers...
For these beautiful...
Pendant keychains

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I still live in my Beatnik past. I use "man" instead of "dude".

I first heard "dude" in black slang in the '70's. It struck me as silly then, and it strikes me as silly now. There's no way you can say anything serious if you preface it with "dude". Try it.

"Dude, your mother's dead!"

"Dude, I think I've been shot!"

"Dude, you've got herpes!"

---dr.M.

 

[Belegon]

"Dude" was absolutely already standard surfer-speak as early as my Junior High years, so we are solidly back in the 70's for white, blond, suburban, reggae-and-ganja-obssessed, get-to-the-beach-at-five-am-for-high-tide dudes using the word.

 

[cantdog]

The word is a century old at least, but your surfer-speak is a modern-style usage, Bel. We used it surfer-style in the seventies, too. But all alone as an exclamation is a fairly new usage, and may date only to a year or so before Ridgemont High. We said "..., man." as the beats had done, in the seventies, even though the noun was available to describe a cool fellow. "the dude is a serious freak, man." Not "He's a serious freak, dude," as they say now.

 

[gauchecritic]

There's no way you can say anything serious if you preface it with "dude". Try it.

"Dude, your mother's dead!"

"Dude, I think I've been shot!"

"Dude, you've got herpes!"

---dr.M.

Proofing the pudding.

"Dude, sweet."

 

[cloudy]

The word is a century old at least, but your surfer-speak is a modern-style usage, Bel. We used it surfer-style in the seventies, too. But all alone as an exclamation is a fairly new usage, and may date only to a year or so before Ridgemont High. We said "..., man." as the beats had done, in the seventies, even though the noun was available to describe a cool fellow. "the dude is a serious freak, man." Not "He's a serious freak, dude," as they say now.

I really don't want to argue with you, Cant, but Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out in 1982, and we were using the word exactly like that way, way before that...in junior high and high school, and I graduated in 1979.

It may not have been in general usage all over the country, but it certainly was in southern California, I promise.