So there's this comedian, his name is Brian Regan, and back in the day he had this bit where

he talked about how, if you remember this at all, back in school when you had to write

a paper or how to give it a longer answer, and you had to list a bunch of things.

For example, out in nature, there's things like dirt, comma, and plants, comma, and then

you run out of things, you just say, and etc.

That idea of like, there's more to say, but I'm not going to go into it because I can't

think of anything.

So that term, etc., becomes a catch-all for all the things that I would say this if

I had the time, but I don't have the time to, but you don't really know what to say.

The modern version of that I think is not, etc. in our texts, it is the ellipsis, the ellipsis

is the dot, dot, dot, right?

That's the sense of, if someone texts you something and you want to give a response, but not

like a really, really definitive response, just kind of like a open-ended, maybe something

out there, so you have the, instead of, etc.

So, what are you doing tonight?

Nothing for sure, dot, dot, dot, because it's like, well, we're not going to commit to

this answer yet.

We're just kind of going to leave it open there.

Or even see, I'll do this.

I'll even do the dot, dot, dot, exclamation mark because it's like, I has a tent.

I'm excited about this, which is just ridiculous.

My favorite is the dot, dot, dot, question mark, where I'm not even going to commit to the

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