Saturday, April 30, 2016

047 Duke

Duke is the TDD cowboy. 

Actor John Wayne was nicknamed The Duke.  John Wayne was in over 250 movies from the 40s-70s, many of them Westerns.  He became an American icon, known for Western films like The Searchers, Rio Bravo, and True Grit. He died in 1979 of stomach cancer.

In just two movies he says the word "pilgrim," as in "take'er easy there, pilgrim." In the 50s and 60s it was a sort of meme to use this word when doing your best John Wayne impression.  It has stuck to this day.

I bring it up because Duke has a zood named Pilgrim.  He is a rocking horse.

Duke has an iteration in all Tech Deck generation.  He is one of the most thoroughly represented dudes.

In addition to G1-G4, he is in the Astro-Nots series as a "space cowboy," plus the Trick Dudes series, doing the "Kick-Flip" trick.

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