Dude!

This morning on Hillary and Derek, I heard that Dierks Bentley is trying to stop saying the word "dude."  Dierks thinks he says it too much.  "Dude" sneaks into my vocabulary often too.  Which got me wondering about "dude" and where the term came from.  Hillary and I got in a heated debate.

Hillary thought "dude" came from "dude ranch."  Not true!  The term refers to a well-dressed man who have never lived outside of the city according to my favorite research nerd site Wikipedia!  First record in print in 1876!  It became big in the surfer culture in the 60's and mainstream by the 70's.

Read more that you ever would want to know about the word "Dude" here

Didn't know the Todd Blog could be so educational huh?  Dude!