[Editor's Note: "Dukar" is properly pronounced DOO-ker. Thank you.]
The Story Of Dukar
It all started at the 2002 Montana Class ABC Speech & Debate State Tournament. It was in Havre that year. I was sitting around between rounds with my best friend (also my partner in my event, Policy Debate) and two other really good friends of mine (partners in Policy, also). One of them spontaneously said, "Man, I gotta take a DUKAR!" I assume this derived from the word "dookie," as in a poop. One of the others said, "Did you just say...DUKAR?" All four of us thought this was absolutely hilarious and laughed for about five minutes. We then proceeded to say every quote we possibly knew, inserting the word "dukar" into strategic spots. Example: One small step for dukar; one large step for dukarkind. We even created the Theory of Dukartivity to explain why we lost whenever my partner had to take a dukar during the round but couldn't due to the obvious fact that we were kind of busy debating.
After we lost out, but still had to hang around, we engaged in some great childish pranks. We went into a large school bathroom. One of us went into one stall, one of us went into another stall on the other side, and the other two stood at the sinks, pretending to wash their hands. When a patron came in to do something, a sinkman would signal by coughing. This prompted one of us in the stalls to say, "Dukar1 to Dukar2! What is your dukar status?" The other replied something like, "Status is nominal, Dukar1. 34% roughage." Needless to say, it was great!
Time passed. Dukar quickly spread around the school, eventually jumping to other schools and to the general public. It soon became useable as any part of speech. The most common uses are phrases like:
What the dukar?
You're a dukar!
I've got to take a dukar.
Dukar!
That's dukar.
I dukared twice yesterday.
Moms. Dads. Little kids. They've all been heard to use dukar.
When the Fantasy Sports craze started and a bunch of friends and I started participating in many Private Leagues, a problem came up in our postings. Since we all wrote a lot on our league message board, we had to put "dukar" down in print. The good spellers among us all assumed it to be spelled "dooker." My spelling challenged friend (debate partner from above), however, started spelling it "dukar." He was one of the lead proponents of dukar and convinced one of the other debaters (from above) to also spell it that way. They said it was the Old English spelling; that's why it didn't look like "dooker." With two Dukar Founders advocating the "dukar" proposal, it quickly became the standard in dukar lithography.
Dukar
The Word. The Legend. The Phenomenon.
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