Posted on 07/30/2009 9:54:14 AM PDT by don-o
You know what....?
Is it just me or are people increasingly using that nonsense phrase? I know I hear it from talking heads on the television; (actually) I just get audio on XM radio. Today, I heard a baseball broadcaster begin an answer to a question with..
You know what...?
What is going on?
In college my buddies all played this game where you would try to get someone to say "what?" And when you did you got the "chicken butt" reply and you knew you were "had". Ahhh, the good old days, cheap beer and silly friends.
You know what really bugs me? It’s when you tell someone something and they reply with “oh really?” I don’t know why but to me it just comes across as condescending.
You're WATCHING the news on TV. The news-reader, turns to a monitor by his/her side and says, "Take a look at this."
What the heck else am I going to do - I'm WATCHING you, your moron!!!
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And another one from Rush...
Every once in a while, he'll start talking about something by saying, "Look it, ..." Look it? Huh? What the heck does that mean?
That is a complete sentence in Texas.
8. Let me be clear....
9. No one is saying.. (translation — everybody in the administration is)
Not for WBZ...he kind of got the bum’s rush. I think he does occasional spots of Comcast Sports channel.
ROTFLMAO!
My pet peeve is “anyways”.
Needless to say..
Wise guy!
That's my personal peeve. It's "couldn't." "Could" in this context meant I must care a great deal, because it's possible to care less. "Couldn't" means I don't care at all, there is no quantity of "care" less than zero. That's the impression one tries to give in uttering this bromide.
S’up?
I’m with you. Somwetimes, when I’m feisty, I get the person who could care less to diagram that sentence, then reword the diagram for me. Gets ‘em every time.
I hear ya...know-what-I’m-sayin’.
...know what I mean? know what I mean?
7) Let me be clear...
Something that I might say occasionally (though if I know it annoys someone, I use it all the time), is “I’m getting ready to quit,” or “I’m getting ready to stop.”
Mark
I like colloquialisms - “Throw me down the stairs my hat.”
What burns me up is the identical parrot-like squawking of one after another brain stem, both in and out of the media.
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