Oh wow, this has been a fun read. A looooong read, but I've been cracking up! Wish I had been on the board the when this was first started...
I've been keeping notes on things I'd remember so I could post 'em all at the end.
A pet peeve of mine is 'anyways'. I'd never heard it used until I was in Jr. High, then it was from almost every kid I knew - but never the teachers. Now I hear teaches say it too. Drives me crazy.
Yous Guys has always been, to me, a term of endearment, and always said tongue-in-cheek. Goes along with 'them is good stuffs' and other uses of 'them is'.
I live in a town in Western Washington called Poulsbo - and nick-names Little Norway, so we hear a LOT of 'Yah, sure, ya betcha' and Uffdas. Uffda, as I've heard it, expresses lots of effort, like lifting a really heavy bag.
The Commodores Brick House was not acytuall sung with any words between brick and house - the song was written based on the phrase, but the phrase was modified in writing the song.
Another one that drives me crazy is "Where are you AT?" Why add an 'at' to the end? Isn't "Where are you?" enough?
DH makes fun of me because I use 'eh' and 'aboot' and such, and says I'm South Canadian (as we're only one state away).
I do tend to say no problem instead of you're welcome, but only when whatever I'm being thanked for was really truly of no consequence to me, positive of negative, and I've never thought it rude; in Spanish they reply 'de nada' which translates to 'of nothing'.
I also tend to say 'you know' if I'm explaining something, because I really do want to know if you're following what I'm saying. I'm one of those that tell you how to build a clock if you ask me the time (or don't... as is this case... have you noticed yet that you know what I mean? ;) ), and I want to know if I need to continue to elaborate, or leave well enough alone, you get it already, don't keep beating the dead horse with the stick.