>True but I was referring to the cases where the fillers are overused. I overheard a discussion between 2 teens where every third word/expression was " and I was like She was like he was like".

I have yet to meet a champion of the same caliber as my cousin. She could talk for a whole minute using nothing but these crutch-expressions. She would go, like, I mean, the... you know, it's really a, I mean, one such, whachamacallit, you know, that one, like, horrible, and so you know, that one...

Don't know what she's doing now, but she achieved the best noise/signal ratio I ever heard, could have become a politician. She could deliver a perfect content-free speech.