While perusing the pages of The New York Public Library Desk Reference, 3rd Edition, I looked at the bottom of the page containing common crossword puzzle words and saw the following fabulous fact:
The word dude was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words duds and attitude.
Oscar is the original dude. He had an immeasurable amount of style; this photo from 1882 captures him in his favorite coat. Talk about strutting his stuff! Tres chic!
The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
I can resist everything except temptation.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
Definitely not a dude who would ever misplace his car!
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004.
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