Word: dudes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...borrowing both an occasional snappy inventiveness of language (e.g. Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull, protesting, absurdly, "Whoa, whoa, whoa" as if it were kids...
...some of my friends went to a party and I ended up coming later. When I arrived, there were people spilling out of the room, and I couldn't get in. The guy at the door was like, "It's too crowded, Miss." First of all, I was thinking, "Dude, this isn't a club. You're not a bouncer. You're just a self-important 18-year old that's actually kind of small...
...Dude, you sound like you're finally succumbing that `Harvard mentality' you're always complaining that everyone there...
...Dude, look at all your graduating friends. I'd bet dollars-to-donuts that they're stuck in the same mentality--going for the most difficult, most challenging, and occasionally the highest-paying position possible, so that it will enable them to do `what they really want to later...
...Dude, I'm sorry about not keeping in touch. I'll be better about it in the future. And you never know--maybe my uncle could use your help and mine with all the filing in his office this summer...