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/dudes-must-see-products-for-60530.jpg "Dude's Must See Products for May 2023")
May had its way with an array of different products this year of 20 and 23. Aside from the 4th, which was with you in the form of a dozen-plus Baby Yoda gifts, there wasn't much of a theme to the month's most popular finds. A couple luxe items for the backyard, some novelties, such as the Mini Archery...
/beer-gear-et-ways-to-enhance-60430.jpg?mode=crop "Beer Gear: 16 Ways to Enhance a Cold Beer on a Hot Day")
Beer Gear: 16 Ways to Enhance a Cold Beer on a Hot Day
16 ways to enhance a cold beer on a hot day. That's 4 more than a 12-pack of ways. A 6-pack plus 10. A pint of beer gear! And if this summer is the scorcher they say it's going to be, I for one will gladly make use of...
/me-so-corny-et-products-to-60427.jpg "Me So Corny: 14 Products to Help You Eat & Honor Corn")
Oh it's corn, corn, corn that makes your feel...forlorn? What? No. Not corn. Not forlorn. That line is from the song "Hinky Dinky Double D Farm," a childhood classic for me. Back then, I had no idea what the word "forlorn" meant, but ever since last year when I figured it out, I've been baffled by...
/et-gifts-for-college-60323.jpg?mode=crop "14 Gifts for College Graduates")
14 Gifts for College Graduates
Normally, I wouldn't spout off about gifts for college graduates, because, hey, first lesson in adult life: you don't deserve gifts and rewards for doing what you're supposed to, i.e., not wasting the thousands and thousands...
/may-the-4th-be-with-grogu-60175.jpg "May the 4th Be With Grogu: 15 Baby Yoda Gifts")
May the 4th be with Grogu, and with you too. Score one of these 15 Baby Yoda gifts on Stars Wars Day, and I guarantee the 4th will be with you. The Force too, at least by proxy, since you'll have a brand new Grogu spouting it in spades by your side...
/dudes-must-see-products-for-60096.jpg?mode=crop "Dude's Must See Products for April 2023")
Dude's Must See Products for April 2023
April 2023 was a month of self-care, collaborations, Forces, Fools, and, oddly, parody knuckle dusters. One taking after the Golden Arches of McDonalds, and the other fitted with a one-way ticket to your bunghole. Hey...
/12-summer-loungers-for-in-60032.jpg "12 Summer Loungers for In & Out of the Water")
Some of these summer loungers are for in the water, some of these summer loungers are for out of the water. And some of these summer loungers are for in and out of the water! Ha! Beat that, winter!...
/dudes-must-see-products-for-59654.jpg?mode=crop "Dude's Must See Products for March 2023")
Dude's Must See Products for March 2023
March came in like a...Shark Coochie Board, and went out like a...Smartflower Sculptural Solar Energy System. The season changed from...Thor's Hammer Mug to...The Krak'in beer shotgunning tool. And Dude's products spanned...
/dudes-must-see-products-for-59321.jpg "Dude's Must See Products for February 2023")
February, the shortest month, brought us a lot of popular products for short-sighted people with short attention spans who rode the short bus...
/dudes-must-see-products-for-59033.jpg?mode=crop "Dude's Must See Products for January 2023")
Dude's Must See Products for January 2023
I am posting my roundup of Dude's must see products for 1/23 on 2/3/23! Ha! What a feat! One worthy of, oh, I don't know, say...a 3D decal of a farm pig busting through the back windshield of Old McDonald's new SUV?...
/presenting-the-alphabet-gifts-58828.jpg "Presenting the Alphabet: Gifts from A to Z")
My Presenting the Alphabet series has concluded. With, if I may toot mine own horn, all 26 letters accounted for. Even Q. Even X. And over 300 gifts to choose from. Hell, it might be over 500. From A to Z, it's probably over 500, actually, but after the months of hard work I've already put into finding...
/presenting-the-alphabet-14-58760.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 14 Gifts that Start with Z")
Presenting the Alphabet: 14 Gifts that Start with Z
My dudes, my ladies, we have reached Z end. Welcome to the Z gifts, and to the zen of this Dude, happy to be done with this little A(-to-Z)dventure...
/presenting-the-alphabet-14-58723.jpg "Presenting the Alphabet: 14 Gifts that Start with Y")
I can't tell you Y there's so much hostility in the world today. I can't tell you Y the box of frosted shredded wheat and gallon of milk I bought yesterday cost $14. I can't tell you Y sealed bottles with foil tabs and plastic flaps that say "Pull to open" never f-ing open when you pull. I can't...
/presenting-the-alphabet-et-58674.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 12 Gifts that Start with X")
Presenting the Alphabet: 12 Gifts that Start with X
X marks the spot. The 24th spot in the alphabet, and the letter I was most concerned I'd be able to represent in my presentation of alphabetical gifts. But finding X gifts proved not to be all that difficult after all...
/presenting-the-alphabet-21-58647.jpg "Presenting the Alphabet: 21 Gifts that Start with W")
Who, what, where, when, why? The Dude. 21 gifts that start with W. Here. Now. Because that's the letter we've reached in my journey of alphabetic gift gift-giving...
/presenting-the-alphabet-16-58583.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 16 Gifts that Start with V")
Presenting the Alphabet: 16 Gifts that Start with V
I've got some good news. No, some V-ery good news. We're almost to the end of the alphabet. After these 16 gifts that start with V, I have only 4 more letters to go! And aside from panicking over what I'm gonna do about...
/presenting-the-alphabet-et-58530.jpg "Presenting the Alphabet: 18 Gifts that Start with U")
U...U...U...letter, U! U have gone and done it again! What am I going to do with U? I'll tell U exactly what. I'm going to showcase and applaud U in the form of 18 gifts that start with U...
/presenting-the-alphabet-z-58477.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 22 Gifts that Start with T")
Presenting the Alphabet: 22 Gifts that Start with T
Picture gifts alphabetically / T for (twenty-)two, and (twenty-)two for T. We've reached T-minus 0, my dudes and ladies. You know what that means: it's T-time, baby!...
/dudes-must-see-products-of-58431.jpg "Dude's Must See Products of 2022")
To help you bid adieu. To 2022. Enjoy my brief review. Of the best you saw on Dude...
/presenting-the-alphabet-23-58370.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 23 Gifts that Start with S")
Presenting the Alphabet: 23 Gifts that Start with S
Suffering succotash! It's sexy time! Well...at least the first letter of sexy time. We've reached the gifts that start with the letter S. So for those of you who, like myself, aren't getting lucky with a partner at the...
/presenting-the-alphabet-et-58319.jpg "Presenting the Alphabet: 18 Gifts that Start with R")
At the Rs AlReady? AlRRRighty, then, let's have a gandeR at what gRand and Resplendent pRoducts this letteR brings...
/presenting-the-alphabet-z-58265.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 16 Gifts that Start with Q")
Presenting the Alphabet: 16 Gifts that Start with Q
I'd-a thought amassing a collection of gifts that start with the letter Q would be difficult. I mean, not X difficult, but certainly more arduous than the P gifts that preceded it. But it wasn't that hard at all. Sure...
/presenting-the-alphabet-22-58233.jpg "Presenting the Alphabet: 22 Gifts that Start with P")
PPPPPPresenting the Alphabet! We've hit the Ps, my dudes...no, my peeps. From Popdarts to Power Reels, Power Idolz to Pep Talks, and Porsches to Pyros, I've got all the best P has to offer right here. Even the 2 poop gifts in my collection of 22 aren't shitty at all...
/presenting-the-alphabet-et-58161.jpg?mode=crop "Presenting the Alphabet: 19 Gifts that Start with O")
Presenting the Alphabet: 19 Gifts that Start with O
O. Oh. O-oh. Uh-oh. Oh boy, Oh boy! The big O. Ohhhh, baby. In my march through the alphabet of gift-giving (and letter-specific scores for yourself) we've gotten to the Os. O. M. G...