So it's not new, and it's definitely not just a Spokane thing.

But the pervasiveness, in certain circles, of ending every third utterance with a catch-all "...and (common scatological swear word)" sort of cracks me up.

If you have been out of the home, you have heard it. "So we were going over to that one place to mess around and (that word)."

It might strike some as intellectually lazy. But this popular sentence-ending construction does save the speaker the task of specifically delineating all of the likely variables to be encountered. And it holds open all sorts of possibilities, even if the anticipated behavioral context is a familiar framework of not especially ennobling activities.

 But where it's really funny is when it is unexpectedly tacked on to sentences that start out sounding a tad more formal.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm completing the paperwork that I'll need to submit to run for mayor and (     )."

Let's move on and, you know. 

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