One month or one season was Tequila Sunrises and the next time was Harvey Wallbangers and then White Russians. at that point I was a little heavier and the thought was that it would be [John] Goodman or some larger-than-life buffoon, some Hollywood ne'er-do-well buffoon. An inverse of these uses of "dude" would be the term " redneck," a contemporary American colloquialism referring to poor farmers and uneducated persons, which itself became pejorative, and is also still in use.

Or, to use a more Lebowski-appropriate analogy, lots of folks out there will take a proverbial pee on your rug or throw a ferret in your bathtub.

The Dowd even moves like the Dude, with all of the grace of a hungover Great Dane who still has no conception of how big he is. Its sprightly syllables launch the imagination outward as far as the soul can see into a whirling and unbroken orbit of near omniscience.

Aaron Reed, the actor who plays Dude, is a professional bodybuilder and an ex-WWE wrestler from Tampa, Florida. to off-beat experiments like A Serious Man and The Man Who Wasn't There to certifiable American masterpieces like Fargo and No Country For Old Men. What's amazing is that the character of Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski wasn't born in the Coens' imaginations. The implicit contrast is with those persons accustomed to a given frontier, agricultural, mining, or other rural setting. Imagine the child’s shock when he found himself surrounded by an elaborate braid of arabesque patterns into which were woven a macabre menagerie of hybrid human-beasts.

The directors for Fargo and No Country For Old Men will be immortalized by the adventures of an aging hippie just trying to rescue his rug?

Your guests won’t stop laughing during this unique version of charades, and the Dude is sure to be the life of the party.

There's a lot to admire about both the the Dude and the Dowd's laid-back, laissez-faire, "hey man, let's all just be friends" lifestyles and atti-dudes. But unlike the Dude, the Dowd isn't a lethargic n'er-do-well, he's kind of a boss — an accomplished, sometimes fast-talking Hollywood exec. While we can see the Dude sipping on a Tequila Sunrise every so often, the Dude not bowling is impossible to even fathom. Who needs to break box office records or win Academy Awards when you have that level of cultural achievement?

The café society and Bright Young Things of the late 1800s and early 1900s were populated with dudes. A quick glance back at the words we use every day to discuss our experience of the world reveals a hidden reliance on language hatched by art and artists. The Seattle Seven were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot following a violent protest outside of the Seattle Federal Building. In 1931, the US sculptor Alexander Calder and the French avant-garde pioneer Marcel Duchamp added another twist to the word’s meaning. The Dowd's been profiled by a "who's who" of major media players, including Huffington Post, All Things Considered, and The Atlantic.

During the trial, the prosecution's case was floundering, in part because one government witness testified that they would "go to any length" to stop the radicals. And it’s a machine where Ryan then did every line as Dude looking at lights in the motion capture egg, and then we digitally cut and morphed Ryan’s real face on Aaron’s body. Originally sung in the late 18th Century by British soldiers keen to lampoon the American colonists with whom they were at war, the ditty, by the end of the 19th Century, had been embraced in the US as a patriotic anthem.