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GRAND RAPIDS, MI Fifteen-year-old Bobbi Warner of Grand Rapids discovered on Tuesday that it is, indeed, possible to use the word “like” too much.
Tuesday afternoon, Bobbi went to the mall with four of her friends—to giggle and gossip and generally loiter while pretending to shop. And the teenager unnecessarily inserted the word, “like” into her normal conversations and exclamations well over four thousand times during the course of their three-hour shopping trip.
Just as Bobbi was picking out an adorable stuffed black lab for Sara’s boyfriend, she was in the middle of shouting, “Like, isn’t this, like, the cutest thing you’ve ever, like, seen??” to her friends, who were across the store, when she stopped. She tried to finish her sentence, but she couldn’t. All she could say was, “Like, isn’t this, like, the cutest thing you’ve ever.” And that was it. No matter how hard she tried, it became physically impossible for her to say the word.
And that was it. Though Bobbi has full use of the English language, there is one word that she can no longer use. Bobbi’s family has consulted prominent speech therapists from throughout the country, and no one can give them a satisfactory explanation for what happened. One of them suggested, “I’m sorry, Mr. Warner, but it looks like your daughter just exceeded her quota.”
Bobbi’s friends don’t know how to react. Sara was quoted as saying, “Like, how can I, like, hang out with someone who, like, talks that way? It’s so, like, uncool. She sounds, like, grown up or something.”
The Warners are frantically trying to find anyone who can cure this mysterious ailment. They fear that their daughter will be ostracized because of the way that she speaks.
Said her mother, “They’ll never let her hang out at the mall again!”
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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