“You know what?” seems to be creeping into almost every conversation among my circle of family and friends and now I find I am using it.
For example at a recent family wedding I caught myself in the following conversation.
My son: "Don't Luigi and Danielle make a lovely couple?”
Me: "You know what, they do look wonderful, but I can hardly wait for his better looking twin to get married."
“You know what?” is contagious! So many of us are starting sentences with “You know what?”
You know what, maybe many readers are yet to be infected. But, you know what, that will soon change.
You know what? Regretfully, it may soon become as much a part of our language as “What's Happening?” or “How's it going?”
As a public service and in an effort to stem this tide, I list below 25 suitable responses to the opening comment, you know what? When someone starts a conversation with you know what? You can now respond with, "yes, I know" and use any of the following 25 answers:
1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
2. The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
3. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
4. The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
5. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
6. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
7. It is virtually impossible to lick your elbow.
8. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off. It dies eventually of starvation.
9. The average Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal this year.
10. Thomas Edison, the light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
11. The idea of painting lines on roadways was started in Ontario in 1930 by John Millar, an engineer working for the Ontario Department of Transport.
12. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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