Don't worry about the digression--you know I was basically just hoping you'd explain exactly that. Thinking about it, of course my first thought was the whole Val-speak thing, which clearly originated in California, so I figured that's what you meant when you talked about the region of the country, that they weren't in California. But particularly if you're talking about the frequency of it, it would make sense as a mistake from somebody who remembered it was said by then, but now has a different idea about how much is too much.

Feel free to now write a post about the use of "you know" in a similar vein...