# Cellphone ringtones you would like to have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2004, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996 "2004-04-20T09:49:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/21 "2004-04-20T22:42:15Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > My first choice would be _Peter Gunn Theme_. I’ve got that on my phone right now. 😃 I’ve got several I cycle through once a week. Tried the non-musical ringtones, but didn’t really care for 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/22 "2004-04-20T23:27:24Z")
I’d like to switch between “God Save the Tsar” and “Deutschland über Alles” on alternate weekdays and “Giovinezza” on weekends. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/23 "2004-04-20T23:48:33Z")
I recently put some sound clips on my phone from Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short Rejected. So now my phone can ring: “My spoon is too big. My **spoon** is too **big**. My spoon is too big!” (footsteps)" I am a banana!" “You’re watching the Family Learning Channel. And now: Angry Ticks Fire Out Of My Nipples!” (long, loud mooing noise mixed in with insect buzzing and screaming little girls) “My anus is bleeding!” (cheering) “My **anus** …is **bleeding!** ” Also, when a certain person calls me, I get a sound clip from [Black Belt Jones](http://imdb.com/title/tt0071221/) : “What in the _hell_? It’s Jones! Spread out! Spread out!” Yes, his last name is Jones, and he’s a black belt. Also, if any of you are using Sprint PCS, drop me an email and I might be able to hook you up with whatever ringtone your evil little heart desires. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/24 "2004-04-21T02:22:40Z")
My friend Nina’s ringtone is a recording of her father. “Yanina, pick up the phone!” in a very thick Russian accent. However, my favorite ringtone of all time was on my friend Sara’s phone. It was her cousin yelling, “Damn, I gotta piss! Chingy-CHAAAAAAAAA!” However, it was really garbled and it really sound like “mumble mumble mumble AAAAAAAAA!” It would go off in class sometimes, and all you would be able to hear was some incoherent screaming. Too bad she got a new phone. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/25 "2004-04-21T02:40:09Z")
**SpringTiiiiiime for Hit-ler…and Germany…** That would be pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Teelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Teelo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teelo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/26 "2004-04-21T03:50:32Z")
Why, …MAMBO # 5 of course! [singing] _Da da, dah dah, dadadadah! Da da, dah dah, dadadadah!_ ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/27 "2004-04-21T03:51:26Z")
I want “CQ” in Morse Code (-.-. --.-, or “Da-dit-da-dit da-da-dit-da”). My first cellphone (analog, circa 1998) had it as one of the built-in options, but none I’ve had since have. My current one is an extremely annoying jangle, kind of a bad digital reproduction of an old real-bells phone ringer. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/28 "2004-04-21T05:07:51Z")
Either the Law & Order theme song or the Godfather. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/29 "2004-04-21T07:50:18Z")
“uh oh!” just kidding ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/30 "2004-04-21T10:34:20Z")
I do have 3 different ringtones on the phone for the people who call me the most. Everyone else gets the regular tone. If I could, I’d have either “Jupiter” from Holst’s _The Planets_, or a nice piece of Gregorian Chant. Just think, a whole bunch of mini-monks intoning in my purse. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/31 "2004-04-21T23:25:36Z")
I too wanted custom ringtones. Using my powers of Googleing for good instead of evil, I found [www.howardforums.com](http://www.howardforums.com). In all likelihood, your phone and service is being discussed there. People there told me how to get mp3s on my LG VX6000, so now my ringtones are real songs by King’s X, Social Distortion, Joe Satriani, Guns N’ Roses, and more. You’ve inspired me to go get some Simpsons clips to put on there too. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/32 "2004-04-22T11:36:37Z")
Hate on it if you will, but the seismic mine exploding noise off of attack of the Clones (the ones that jango fett drops in the asteroid belt while obi wan chases him) is the fucking coolest noise ever. I want that as a ringtone: BWAAANNNNNNGG! or some lightsabres clashing. I need a new phone too, I may get a recording one. BWAAANNNNNNGG! ---
**Author:** ![Yesterdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/d07c76/32.png) [@Yesterdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yesterdog)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/33 "2004-04-22T11:41:49Z")
Forget the ringtones, why can’t we get the board on our cell phones yet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/34 "2004-04-22T13:02:28Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > “uh oh!” > just kidding This one makes me think I should record the 9 month old saying “mamamamaMAMAMA!” ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/35 "2004-04-22T14:07:33Z")
Well folks, for all your ringtone needs go here… [www.matrixm.com](http://www.matrixm.com) The site has ringtones for 99 cents or $1.99 _ **HOWEVER** _, it also has a huge section with free downloads. (“free stuff”) It has mono tones, polyphonic tones, and “dead ringers”, which are recordings. For all you people that want “hey asshole pick up the phone”, or a actual phone ringing, get the dead ringer. You can listen to all of them, so make sure you have some time on your hands, there are literally thousands. Registration is free too. Sheesh I sound like a commercial. ---
**Author:** ![NYR407](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@NYR407](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NYR407)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/36 "2004-04-22T15:16:51Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Well folks, for all your ringtone needs go here… > > [www.matrixm.com](http://www.matrixm.com) > > The site has ringtones for 99 cents or $1.99 _ **HOWEVER** _, it also has a huge section with free downloads. (“free stuff”) > > It has mono tones, polyphonic tones, and “dead ringers”, which are recordings. For all you people that want “hey asshole pick up the phone”, or a actual phone ringing, get the dead ringer. You can listen to all of them, so make sure you have some time on your hands, there are literally thousands. > > Registration is free too. > > Sheesh I sound like a commercial. Hey why didn’t I think of giving that site? Oh wait I did 😃 Just to add on to what World Eater said…You get a discount if you open an account. For example: I opened a $20 account and get 40% off everything they sell. So my ringers are only 60 cents. You can listen to everything before you buy and you can also crop the pictures to appear on your phone how you want (to a degree). Now back to the show. Oh and Homers’ “D’oh” and Sam Kinneson’s (spl?) “Ahhhh Ahhhhhhhh!!!” are good alarms on my calender. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/37 "2004-04-22T19:05:07Z")
> [@Ryan K](#): > > Forget the ringtones, why can’t we get the board on our cell phones yet. 😃 I can. :smug: Real email too, not just the stuff that comes to the phone. Yahoo accounts are accessible through my phone’s web browser. Not one of those big clunky PDA phones either. 🆒 Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/38 "2004-04-22T20:14:14Z")
World Eater, NYR047, Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it does not have the sound I have been looking for - the scream of a large fishing reel as a marlin or tuna strips line off against the drag (think of the scene in Jaws with Quint fishing). Tck, Tck, Tck Tck, ZREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGG, Tck,Tck,Tck, Rhrrrr, Rhrrrr Preferably with a voice overlay of Quint shouting: “Hooper! Out of the way, damn you!” I did like the Godzilla roar available at the site, though. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/39 "2004-04-23T00:24:34Z")
The aliens from Sesame Street having a conversation with the phone. BRRRRRRRrrrrrringgggg . . . . brrrrrrrringgggggggg. Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip . . . AW-huh, AW-huh, Aw-huh . . . ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996/40 "2004-04-27T18:45:22Z")
> [@TwoTrouts](#): > > World Eater, NYR047, Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it does not have the sound I have been looking for - the scream of a large fishing reel as a marlin or tuna strips line off against the drag (think of the scene in Jaws with Quint fishing). > > Tck, Tck, Tck Tck, ZREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGG, Tck,Tck,Tck, Rhrrrr, Rhrrrr > Preferably with a voice overlay of Quint shouting: “Hooper! Out of the way, damn you!” > > I did like the Godzilla roar available at the site, though. Some phones allow you to record a voice memo (or hold it close to the TV while said scene is playing) and use it as a ringtone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-ringtones-you-would-like-to-have/240996.md?page=3)