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martin

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Feb 8, 2010, 7:22:38 AM2/8/10
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Caught interviews after Superbowl. Is conversation punctuated
frequently by "you knows"
something taught in negro schools?

martin

duaner

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Feb 8, 2010, 3:08:14 PM2/8/10
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Ass hole

bkn...@conramp.net

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Feb 8, 2010, 4:11:01 PM2/8/10
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Must be taught in all schools. Every teenage, of any color, that
speaks says it incessantly.


BK

Bobster

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Feb 8, 2010, 7:12:24 PM2/8/10
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<bkn...@conramp.net> wrote in message
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Yeah, you know.

bkn...@conramp.net

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Feb 8, 2010, 7:16:10 PM2/8/10
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On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:12:24 -0800, "Bobster" <nos...@nospam.com>
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Like, dude.

bk

suzeeq

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Feb 8, 2010, 7:32:25 PM2/8/10
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Like, you know.

Alan Baker

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Feb 8, 2010, 8:06:15 PM2/8/10
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In article <hkqaem$p05$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:

Totally!

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suzeeq

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Feb 8, 2010, 8:45:40 PM2/8/10
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Alan Baker wrote:
> In article <hkqaem$p05$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>
>> bkn...@conramp.net wrote:
>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:12:24 -0800, "Bobster" <nos...@nospam.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> <bkn...@conramp.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:ddv0n5l1lqahk18rr...@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:22:38 -0800 (PST), martin
>>>>> <martin.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Caught interviews after Superbowl. Is conversation punctuated
>>>>>> frequently by "you knows"
>>>>>> something taught in negro schools?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> martin
>>>>> Must be taught in all schools. Every teenage, of any color, that
>>>>> speaks says it incessantly.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah, you know.
>>> Like, dude.
>> Like, you know.
>
> Totally!

I had a bf 10 years ago or so who sometimes used that phrase about every
other sentence. Almost drove me nuts... then I found myself using it a
lot. Aaaaarggggghh! He wasn't a teenager either, around 42 at the time.

Bob

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Feb 9, 2010, 5:16:35 PM2/9/10
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On Feb 8, 5:45 pm, suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
> Alan Baker wrote:
> > In article <hkqaem$p0...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> > suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:

>
> >> bkni...@conramp.net wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:12:24 -0800, "Bobster" <nos...@nospam.com>
> >>> wrote:
>
> >>>> <bkni...@conramp.net> wrote in message

> >>>>news:ddv0n5l1lqahk18rr...@4ax.com...
> >>>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:22:38 -0800 (PST), martin
> >>>>> <martin.secrest...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>>> Caught interviews after Superbowl. Is conversation punctuated
> >>>>>> frequently by "you knows"
> >>>>>> something taught in negro schools?
>
> >>>>>> martin
> >>>>> Must be taught in all schools. Every teenage, of any color, that
> >>>>> speaks says it incessantly.
>
> >>>> Yeah, you know.
> >>> Like, dude.
> >> Like, you know.
>
> > Totally!
>
> I had a bf 10 years ago or so who sometimes used that phrase about every
> other sentence. Almost drove me nuts... then I found myself using it a
> lot. Aaaaarggggghh! He wasn't a teenager either, around 42 at the time.

For reals?

suzeeq

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Feb 9, 2010, 7:37:27 PM2/9/10
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Almost. I redid the math and he was actually only about 37....

bkn...@conramp.net

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Feb 11, 2010, 9:22:48 PM2/11/10
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:06:15 -0800, Alan Baker <alang...@telus.net>
wrote:

>In article <hkqaem$p05$1...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> suzeeq <su...@imbris.com> wrote:
>
>> bkn...@conramp.net wrote:
>> > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:12:24 -0800, "Bobster" <nos...@nospam.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> <bkn...@conramp.net> wrote in message
>> >> news:ddv0n5l1lqahk18rr...@4ax.com...
>> >>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 04:22:38 -0800 (PST), martin
>> >>> <martin.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Caught interviews after Superbowl. Is conversation punctuated
>> >>>> frequently by "you knows"
>> >>>> something taught in negro schools?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> martin
>> >>> Must be taught in all schools. Every teenage, of any color, that
>> >>> speaks says it incessantly.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> Yeah, you know.
>> >
>> > Like, dude.
>>
>> Like, you know.
>
>Totally!

Your vocabulary was is as bad as, like, whatever.

BK

hotaru-raganbaby_6

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Feb 12, 2010, 6:16:12 PM2/12/10
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It's cute when my NASCAR driver says it.

Mark Nobles

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Feb 13, 2010, 1:39:26 AM2/13/10
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hotaru-raganbaby_6 <speedof...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's cute when my NASCAR driver says it.

Only if she's sitting in a hot tub in her bikini with the Swedish
Bikini team consuming whatever consumables she and they are selling.

Dr.Smith

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Dec 31, 2010, 1:52:48 PM12/31/10
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"suzeeq" <su...@imbris.com> wrote in message
news:hkqeo0$q9i$1...@news.eternal-september.org...

>
> I had a bf 10 years ago or so who sometimes used that phrase about every
> other sentence. Almost drove me nuts... then I found myself using it a
> lot. Aaaaarggggghh! He wasn't a teenager either, around 42 at the time.

I try to never use those two words together unless they are followed by a
query. For instance "I was standing under a lamp post, you know the
kind.....such-n-such". I am sure that I do use them alone occasionally,
when I am not really thinking, but I know what you mean. I hate talking to
some one who uses it twice a sentence. Ex: "I was like going, you know,
down the road to the, you know, store, and I saw this ho (woman who sales
sexual services), you know.....etc."


Remysun

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Dec 31, 2010, 5:13:05 PM12/31/10
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On Feb 8, 5:22 pm, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> bkni...@conramp.net wrote:
> > Must be taught in all schools.  Every teenage, of any color, that
> > speaks says it incessantly.
>
> In an interview of some NBA star, which I heard on radio in the car, it
> was absolutely _hilarious_ how many times the star said "you know."  It
> was sometime last season, and since I don't follow basketball, I had no
> interest in the interview beyond the comedic, but "you know" was said
> about every second or third word.  We actually started to keep count.
> It was THAT ridiculous.

That's what happens when you interview someone before they can catch
their breath. But in a larger sense, the increased use of the term
arises because we have created communication that is faster than the
ability to organize thoughts. We have to say things when we are unsure
of any synchronicity with the party we are trying to communicate with.
Thus, the person talking will have to say, "You know?," to keep
themselves in check before the conversation can ramble into confusion.

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