"Are you sure?" WTF!

[kentauros]

110. Honestly?

I'm fine with most phrases and can't think of any I don't like. Individual words on the other hands...

I will never use "dude", unless I mean to use it in the following manner:

Now, "tenderfoot" is not to be construed as the Western equivalent of that much evolved and more abused specimen of mankind, familiarly styled "dude." For even the Montana cowboy recognizes the latter. Not that he has ever seen the true prototype of a class that was erstwhile so numerous among us. But he is convinced that a person caught in the act of wearing a white linen collar, and who looks as though he might have recently shaved or washed his face, must be a dude, true and proper. ("Random Notes and Observations of a Trip through the Great Northwest," "The Medical Record," Oct. 20, 1883)