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A Dunedin man's YouTube fame
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
A Dunedin man's "nek minnit" saying has gone mainstream thanks to a nine-second YouTube clip.
The clip, now viewed more than a million times on YouTube, has Dunedin skateboarder Levi Hawken saying he left his "scooter outside the diary... nek minnit", then showing a broken scooter on the ground.
Mr Hawken told the Otago Daily Times the uploaded clip has featured on official T-shirts, dozens of YouTube parodies, songs and banners at major sporting events, and was even played by a DJ before a concert by hip-hop heavyweights Naughty by Nature.
He said the catch phrase had been absorbed into the mainstream, just like skating, and was "part of New Zealand now", with a friend in the Middle East telling him it was being used over there.
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