Butt-phonng [Was: Sleep-text, texter]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/6/2012 01:03 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Wahaha. I've seen "ass call" and "butt call" but
>never the verb phone. But, like everything else
>in the universe, it's on Google.
>BB

Many fewer times than "bull-calling", I
see.  (Very many, considering the false positives
such as "it's a pain in the butt phoning"
[presumably for Customer Service].)  But I grew
up at a time when "calling" meant "leaving a card".

Joel


>On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > Apparently sometimes more thoughtful than
> > butt-phoning, which (I assume) only dials random numbers.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > At 1/5/2012 10:30 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> >> Sleep texting is in the news right now (see #2 below).
> >>
> >> I wonder if bookies are taking odds on how long
> >> it will be before a politician claims that their
> >> "sexting" was a case of "sleep-sexting."
> >>
> >> 1. December 21, 2005 - This is the earliest I
> >> find on Google, searching back to 2000.
> >>
> >> "Sleep-texting" by Gail Dela Cruz (http://kutitots.com/?p=14)
> >>
> >> -----
> >> It was the fact I was „sleep-texting‰ that freaked me out.
> >> -----
> >>
> >> Comment on that page:
> >>
> >> March 17, 2006 by Stuart
> >> -----
> >> its funny, my girlfriend just sleep-texted me
> >> right now actually ­ i found it hilarious, she
> >> woke up when i replied and had no idea what i was talking about heh.
> >> -----
> >>
> >> 2. December 27, 2011: "Hey u wassup?? Let's
> >> zzzzz ..." by Kristin Tillotson
> >> (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/136212468.html)
> >>
> >> This article has a cornucopia of forms.
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Alice Hall is such a skillful texter that she can do it in her sleep.
> >>
> >> "Sometimes the texts make sense, other times
> >> it's just random letters," said Hall, a senior
> >> at the Perpich Center Arts High School in Golden
> >> Valley and one of a small but growing number of
> >> cellphone users who say they sometimes
> >> sleep-text -- the latest twist on sleepwalking or talking in one's sleep.
> >>
> >> "You wouldn't want to sleep-text your boss," he said.
> >>
> >> But doctors are also starting to see
> sleep-texting concerns in adult patients.
> >>
> >> Sleep-texters can do themselves real social or
> >> professional damage, said Kramer, who has about
> >> a dozen patients who have become concerned about
> >> sleep-texting, most of them first mentioning it in the past year.
> >>
> >> Caitlin Connery, a junior at Perpich, said she
> >> hasn't sleep-texted anything mortifying yet, but "it's a fear I have."
> >>
> >> Most sleep-texts are probably sent when people
> >> are in a semi-alert but groggy state, both Iber and Kramer said.
> >> -----
> >>
> >> Benjamin Barrett
> >> Seattle, WA
>
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