Feeding the monkey

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

Does anybody happen to have any idea of how The Dude makes any dollars...bones, clams, whatever you call them?

[sufidude]

I'm guessing as an ex hippie he probably sells home made soap and mix tapes on Venice Beach during the bowling off season. His stint as an anti-capitalist radical during the drafting of the Port Huron statement probably endowed him with a healthy mistrust of government and paper money- my best guess is that he may have taken out huge student loans in the 60's, invested it all in gold and Thai sticks, dropped out, dealt out and saved some of the Thai stick  earnings, and sells off the gold as needed at various local pawn shops.

[greatspiritmonk]

Or it might be that he just works some months a year. I knew a man who worked six months and then traveled the other six around the world. Nice way of living if you don't have a family. But sufidude is right, probably he has some kind of activity down to Venice Beach. Or helps Walter in the shop.

[BikerDude]

I always figured he has some meal ticket. Like an insurance settlement or
something. That would be very dude. Not rich. Just enough to keep him
in half and half.

[brandt]

I always figured he has some meal ticket. Like an insurance settlement or
something. That would be very dude. Not rich. Just enough to keep him
in half and half.

I take comfort in that, knowing there are dudes out there, takin' er easy for all us workin stiffs

[sufidude]

I always figured he has some meal ticket. Like an insurance settlement or
something. That would be very dude. Not rich. Just enough to keep him
in half and half.

I take comfort in that, knowing there are dudes out there, takin' er easy for all us workin stiffs

As a financial aid sucking university student, you're welcome.

[martin]

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[Elbowski]

In an early version of the screenplay the Dude was the heir to the Rubik's cube fortune, which is another anomaly since the dude who invented the R/cube was Czechoslovakian and as such was not protected by patent law so his cube was copied and ripped off by many manufacturers.

I like to think that the Dude tends a little pot patch somewhere in the Laurel Canyon hills. Weed can be a costly indulgence for an unemployed dude.

[greatspiritmonk]

I guess he has a strict "job" regimen, working each year as much as needed and then enjoying himself the rest of the time. Like working six months only. At the end he has a little monkey to feed. And I guess also that Walter gives him something to do too, sometimes.

[RevWade]

doesn't he fix the cable?

[his_dudeness]

were you listening to the dude's story?

[Rev.Wendy aka The Dude a-Rides]

Shut the fuck up Donny.

Maybe he has family money.

[greatspiritmonk]

doesn't he fix the cable?

No, he's just helping her to conceive. 

[greatspiritmonk]

Shut the fuck up Donny.

Maybe he has family money.

Or maybe he has a kind of greenhouse in the backyard. 

[martin]

Or maybe he has a kind of greenhouse in the backyard. 

i like that idea