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  • The ad: tech keynote was really, really awful. aQuantive President and CEO Brian McAndrews (who's anything but devoid of original ideas) spouted platitudes such as "social media is certainly here to stay" to his interlocutor, FastCompany's less-than-lively Lynne Johnson, who sat slumped in her chair and said "yknow" a lot.

    ClickZ News Blog 2009

  • The ad: tech keynote was really, really awful. aQuantive President and CEO Brian McAndrews (who's anything but devoid of original ideas) spouted platitudes such as "social media is certainly here to stay" to his interlocutor, FastCompany's less-than-lively Lynne Johnson, who sat slumped in her chair and said "yknow" a lot.

    ClickZ News Blog 2009

  • Report how is this at all a dilemma. burn em all to your computer then throw em in a box not to be seen again for another 20 years. or yknow, give em away to somebody like other commenters suggested

    Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010

  • HAL guys i dont know, but would you go for all plain white eyes, or just painted eyes yknow batman oooooooor iris colored like First Flight

    Will Green Lantern’s Costume Look Like This? | /Film 2010

  • That would be interesting, except for the, yknow, real life aspect.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • And, yknow, they say politics ain't beanbag ... and it's all in the game to tell innocent, well-intentioned people that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim or that John Kerry wasn't really a hero in Vietnam.

    Scholarship - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • And havoc "in" the wife of his ex wife could get a little ... yknow.

    What Will Zombieland Director Ruben Fleischer Do Next? | /Film 2009

  • Theyre the ones the aliens will have to, yknow, subdue.

    The Lovers John Connolly 2009

  • This can cause bleeding around the heart, which can, 'yknow, stop it dead.

    Requiescat in Pace Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • I know that people feel like the MMO market has been beaten to death, which it has, but yknow what, this is the one game that i kept saying “stop simulating the MMO type world and just make an MMO out of this franchise, keep making the single player games for ppl who dont want to throw down money but plz i want an MMO” and im glad they did.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Elder Scrolls MMORPG confirmed! 2007

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