# Cell phone ringtones **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160 "2006-06-18T07:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/1 "2006-06-18T07:11:55Z")
Have the Teeming Millions loaded some unusual ringtones? I thought of a few out-of-the-ordinary tones: 1. An old-fashioned telephone ringing. 2. A knock-on-door sound. 3. A voice yelling, _“Someone’s on the phone!”_ 😃 4. A flushing toilet. 5. The Tarzan yell (a la Johnny Weissmuller). 6. The first few bars of the William Tell Overture. 7. Old-fashioned church bells. 8. Farting. 9. Burping. 10. Reveille. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/2 "2006-06-18T09:25:02Z")
Mine is Stewie asking Brian to shave his coin purse. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/3 "2006-06-18T10:14:06Z")
My dad had one of the earlier phones that could do wav or mp3 files (i.e. able to play vocal sounds and recordings.) And as his ringtone he set it to do a rooster’s cockledoodledoo. That one got quite a lot of looks at restaurants as people would look around wondering what the hell, then laughing as they realised what it was. Sort of a shame he changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/4 "2006-06-18T15:10:09Z")
I’ve got Chewbacca, and a few Simpson’s (Evil Homer, Burrito, Dr Nick’s"Hi-Everybody!", and the 32 doh’s) Chewie rules the phone at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/5 "2006-06-18T18:50:10Z")
My dad has a disorder where he’s always coughing stuff up due to something that happened to him in the Army. A family friend (now deceased, unfortunately) had one of those phones that could record ringtones, so he recorded my dad coughing, and set it as the ringtone for my dad. I dunno, I thought it was funny. ~Tasha ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/6 "2006-06-18T19:10:17Z")
I have one that I want to use, but I have to wait to buy one of those cords to move MP3’s from the laptop to my cell. It’s the Foamy ringtone from the website. He’s yelling ‘Hey! Follow the sound of my voice and kill whoever’s holding the phone!’ Currently I have a mix I made myself. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/7 "2006-06-18T19:13:17Z")
Mine is 1) the old fashioned telephone ring ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/8 "2006-06-18T19:17:48Z")
Before I sent my phone in for repair, I used a recording of Sputnik. Also, when I received a message, I had HAL from 2001 saying “there is a message for you” ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/9 "2006-06-18T20:33:25Z")
I’d like to use Napalm Death’s “You Suffer” (which holds the Guinness record for the shortest song) as my ringtone. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/10 "2006-06-18T20:41:47Z")
I have a portion of Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” (‘The Exorcist’ music). I just love how a pretty little bell tune has such a horror-related association. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/11 "2006-06-18T23:18:17Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Have the Teeming Millions loaded some unusual ringtones? I thought of a few out-of-the-ordinary tones: > > 1. An old-fashioned telephone ringing. > 2. A knock-on-door sound. > 3. A voice yelling, _“Someone’s on the phone!”_ 😃 > 4. A flushing toilet. > 5. The Tarzan yell (a la Johnny Weissmuller). > 6. The first few bars of the William Tell Overture. > 7. Old-fashioned church bells. > 8. Farting. > 9. Burping. > 10. Reveille. > 😃 Your list is something I’ve seen on every Jamster and Ringtone King! ad since the damnable things came out… 🙂 Personally, I’ve got an excerpt from Avenue Q’s “The Internet Is For Porn” ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/12 "2006-06-19T00:31:02Z")
I have a sound clip from _Return to Castle Wolfenstein_: “_Move_ you fools! Schnell, schnell!” Unfortunately, I had to delete it a while back, and moving things on and off the V710 is a pain if you don’t want to pay Verizon for crippling the phone. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/13 "2006-06-19T00:42:21Z")
I’ve got “Push It” set as my generic ringtone, but I’ve got Bowling for Soup’s “1985” set as the specific “home” tone. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/14 "2006-06-19T01:28:11Z")
A friend’s husband likes trains. So the ring tone on his phone is a train chugging up from a distance, and then it suddenly blows its whistle. I can safely say I have never heard a more annoying ring tone. And I _like_ trains. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/15 "2006-06-19T01:32:36Z")
Not all that weird but mine is Aerosmith’s “Dream On”. Unimaginative!? I am So!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/16 "2006-06-19T03:29:51Z")
I’m sure it’s not weird or original, but I have AC/DC’s Back in Black. Unless it’s my sister or my best friend and then it’s Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I used to have the old fashioned British phone “ring-ring, ring-ring”. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/17 "2006-06-19T03:40:22Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Have the Teeming Millions loaded some unusual ringtones? I thought of a few out-of-the-ordinary tones: > > 1. An old-fashioned telephone ringing. > 2. A knock-on-door sound. > 3. A voice yelling, _“Someone’s on the phone!”_ 😃 > 4. A flushing toilet. > 5. The Tarzan yell (a la Johnny Weissmuller). > 6. The first few bars of the William Tell Overture. > 7. Old-fashioned church bells. > 8. Farting. > 9. Burping. > 10. Reveille. > 😃 I’ve had #1, and I know a couple of other people who also do. I had one very similar to #3: “The phone’s ringing!!!” also had “Yay! I have a text message” when I had text messages come in. Right now I have an Enigma song when my boyfriend calls, the theme for the Muppet Show when most people call, and “Mah-na-mah-na” when family calls. I made them myself from mp3s I had. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/18 "2006-06-19T03:44:05Z")
Mine is that special ringtone that only teenagers can hear. The only thing is, my birthday is next week - I’ll be 20. I’ll need to get a new ringtone. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/19 "2006-06-19T03:59:27Z")
I’ve got to get around to editing the MP3, but I plan on setting TMBG’s “I Be An Retarded” to play whenever my best mate rings 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160/20 "2006-06-19T04:09:36Z")
I have several sounds and rings I use for all sorts of stuff, and I switch among them pretty frequently. They’re all WAVs or MP3s, and my favorites are: [ul][li]A mariachi trumpet intro – currently my new message tone[/li][li]The theme from _The Price Is Right_ and that sound for when someone loses[/li][li]A regular phone ring[/li][li]Bananaphone[/li][li]Lindsey Naegle (the Corporate America woman from _The Simpsons_) saying “I’m a sexual predator” – that gets some stares[/li][li]The _Futurama_ theme – this makes an awesome ringtone[/li][li]_The Jetsons_ doorbell sound[/li][li]The computer from _DS9_ saying “There is one message waiting for you.”[/li][li]The _TNG_ red alert sound[/li][li]“Tomorrow’s Child”, from Spaceship Earth[/ul][/li]I also have some merengue and Latino pop that I use as ringtones for specific people. I change them fairly often, as my phone can play damn near anything for a ringtone, and getting them on and off is extremely simple – yank the MMC card out, or via Bluetooth, or with the data cable. And I swear on a stack, whenever I’m in public, it’s knocked down to a simple soft beep with vibrate or just vibrate. I’m not one of those people. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-ringtones/361160.md?page=2)