[ExI] You Know (was: You know what?)

[Lee Corbin]

John Clark writes

> "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>
> 
>> Has anyone besides me noticed a big increase over the
>> last several years > of the phrase "you know what?"
> 
> For years, you know, one of my pet peeves has been, you know, people
> who say "you know" every 7 or 8 seconds.

Why don't you, like, try to answer my question?  I mean, have
you or haven't you, like, noticed the plethora of "you know what's"?

> And this isn't, you know, limited to the, you know, uneducated,
> I've heard, you know, journalists and PhDs, you know, do it.

Yeah, well, you know that people have been saying that for, 
like, decades, haven't they? So what else is new?   True, it
can be extremely, like, annoying.  But one particular *other*
horrible verbal habit---which I cannot quite, quite, bear to 
mention explicitly---drives me a lot more crazy than, like,
"you know".

> I've fantasized about, you know, making a computerized
> "you know" detector that would blast an air horn whenever
> somebody, you know, said it. Maybe that would, you know,
> break them of the, you know, habit.

Thanks to computer technology, come the revolution when
people of good taste (i.e. who agree with you and me) have
got so absolutely, you know, like, sick of these incredible
testimoties to ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY and have seized
all power, we can make your dreams come true.  Telephones
will cut out on them, their medic alerts will give them 40 volts,
and some of the incurable will simply disappear into the,
you know, like night.

Lee