# "Call me" assholes

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-assholes/682784
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 3, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-assholes/682784 "2014-03-03T23:09:47Z")
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### Author: ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-me-assholes/682784/7 "2014-03-03T23:40:36Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> You can reverse the nouns there with no exceptions.

Agreed.  
I had to check and make sure the OP wasn’t the same person who just posted this in the March minirants thread:

> [@The Rants Came Marching One By One (March minirants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rants-came-marching-one-by-one-march-minirants/682588/22):
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> My dad sent a text to my cell phone: “Can you please call me?” Not sure why he didn’t just, yanno, CALL ME? Is that not how phones used to work? I got all worried thinking it was Something Big And Important.
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> Oh, and the best part was, the whole messaging thing was to warn me that the weather is turning bad. So he could have 1.) trusted me to step outside and go “brrr! Holy shit it seems to be chilly and there appears to be ice on all roadways!” and/or 2.) sent a text: “hey, be careful on the roads!”

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