Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 08, 2017

Hey dude. Hi buddy. What’s up homie?

Sir, I speak Jive.

Is that Bob Dylan sitting in the back of the class?

Duh

Many (many!) years ago I dated a young woman who must have read the word incorrectly when she first saw it, because she would say “Duds”…. I started to correct her, but then realized she may have had a point…

Mandarin Dude-onics has a much richer context depth from the culturally accepted tonal inflection variations.

I learned my Dude-Onics at a dude ranch, pardner !

I blame the Beatles and ‘hey Dude.’

The more recent off-shoot of this is Bro.

Such a rich language…who’d have thunk it?

Dude, dude.