I’m with Old Fart duffer on this one.
That’s my FAVOURITE. Imagine the novelty of a telephone ring sounding like a telephone! Irony, I tells ya.
I can’t win with the song ones: if it’s a song I like, it’s stuck in my head for the rest of the day, and if it’s one I hate, well, I hate it. If I want to hear a song I’ll turn on my … computer. Just like it should be.
There’s been a commercial on TV advertising a free ringtone based on a teeth-gratingly annoying song called “The Whisper Song”. I heard about 5 seconds of it on the commercial and my annoy-O-meter was already pushing red. If I ever heard it in public I think I would hemmorhage from every possible place. It’s like hearing Vogon poetry, only much more painful, I’m sure.
Hey, that is pretty cool…
Vogon poetry! Now there is the phrase I’ve been searching for!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a novelty ringtone in my neck of the woods – and I’m a public transit user so I’m surrounded by cell phones daily. Probably 95% of the ones I do hear are, like, the latest 50 cent cut or crap like that. (No offense to the hip hop crowd – not my cuppa)
I have never and will never, so long as I live, pay to download a single flippin’ ringtone from any online service. Those damn ringtone “services” can kiss my Canuck-white hynie. It saddens me to know someone paid $3 plus data charges for the priviledge of hearing “My Lumps” blare out of their phone speaker every time someone calls them.
Not that I object to music as a ringtone. I generally either write my own and mix it down to an MP3, or I’ll take a song I like and remix it myself so it acutally has a beginning, middle and end that all fits in under 60 seconds.
Right now I have a custom-remixed version of Benni Benassi’s “Satisfaction.” Yeah, a bit trendwhorish, but I like it. I also keep a few custom-remix alternates on my phone when I get bored; presently, “My Heart Goes Bang” (Dead or Alive), “Oh Yeah” (Yello) and “State Farm (Remix '89)” (Yaz). Go Go Gadget 80s!
I have Vince Guaraldi’s “Linus & Lucy” - I hope nobody thinks it’s obnoxious. It makes me smile.
My sister had “it’s a small world” on hers. I’m surprised I was never moved to fratricide.
My friend’s brother used my sister saying “Hey man!” for his ringtone. It caused much hilarity because she is known far and wide for her unique “Hey man!”
I guess you had to be there. Anyway, my phone is just some chimes. I’d get Magical Trevor if I could find it, though.
Verizon + mp3s = “Ahem, excuse me sir, you can’t do that here.”
Apparently Verizon Wireless is bringing out their own pay-as-you-go download service, which plain old mp3 capability would compete with – so they’ve disabled it. Besides, mustn’t let folks put just any old rings-n-things on their phones. They might want to use something the Man can’t get a cut of!
:mad:
Speed Racer theme song. Now that I would download. Of course, then I’d have to kick my own ass for being trendy through retro. Kinda like getting the Star Wars theme song.
Wait, actually that would be kind of cool.
Yeah, one day one of my co-worker’s phones started playing the Knight Rider theme. I was moved to coolness.
(Checks to make sure that we’re still in The Pit)
Fine.
All you ring-tone-playing monkeyspanks can form a daisy chain and fellate each other crazy in one gigantic orgy whilst being serenaded by shipping crates full of cellphones playing every annoying sound ever recorded by the entire human race.
And y’know what? I don’t CARE how cool your little ringtones are. It wasn’t cool when GI Joe and Strawberry Shortcake sang it in the Ice Capades during your formative years. MOZART isn’t fucking cool when it sounds like it’s being performed by Alvin & The Chipmunks & those goddam Dancing Hamsters singing through fifty feet of feces-clogged drain pipe. Every noise is automatically ANNOYING when it is played over a cellphone.
The only difference between them freakin’ ringtone people and somebody shrieking out “Ew! Mah! Gawud! Mah PHONE is RINGING! Look at ME while I decide whether to ANSWER MY PHONE!” each time the damn thing goes off is that the second one saves $3.99 a month.
And tomndeb, I don’t know what kinda cellphone you’ve got but my first-generation Blackberry (so old it had a hand crank and keys for cuneiform) would let you set the “Vibrate” tone for however long you wanted. You’re not fooling anybody, you just wanted to listen to Tocatta En Fugue when you should have been operating a backhoe. I can’t imagine all these construction workers suddenly flinging their Carhartts all over the site, looking as if they’d been hit by a mass outbreak of St. Vitus’ Dance, just because their cellphone buzzed in their pocket.
Not that I have an opinion or anything 
I take it all back. This is the ringtone I want. I think it would redefine the definition of cool.
Who’s got the MP3 mixer?
I gar-on-tee that if your cellphone announces calls by spewing forth a mixture of grunts, groans, slurping sounds and random background music that you will have peoples’ undivided attention.