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

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/7/2012 10:04 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>Isn't "butt-dial" more common that "butt-phone"?

Definitely -- and more common than
"butt-call".  But I had previously only tried
"butt-call..." (it's hard to search for the
infinitive so I used -ed and -ing), since "dial"
is an anachronistic misnomer.  :-)

Joel


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> > 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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