This is a newer, less-verbose interface that calls the old 
        philistine one. This should be used.

def call(self, routine, *args):
        """This is a newer, less-verbose interface that calls the old 
        philistine one. This should be used.
        """

        (query, replacements) = self.__build_query(routine, args)

        return self.__execute_text(query, **replacements)