# ringtones **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148 "2002-11-10T16:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/1 "2002-11-10T16:29:00Z")
a cell phone ring tone poll (my first new thread, be gentle) me: black sabbath “ironman” for social callers a very “business like” ring for work unclviny ---
**Author:** ![The\_Clawman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@The\_Clawman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Clawman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/2 "2002-11-10T16:34:23Z")
I’ve downloaded the five tones from Close Encounters, but I generally just use a generic ringing sound, or leave it in my pocket on vibrate. Some of those new polyphonic ring tone phones actually sound quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/3 "2002-11-10T16:37:02Z")
I stick to a vibrating alert and a single beep. For the loud profiles I just use the default Nokia “low” sound; I quite like some ringtones but most seem to get very tired and gimmicky very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/4 "2002-11-10T17:12:17Z")
_Day Tripper_ _Theme from I Dream of Genie_ _Theme from Magnificent Seven_ I vary these up a bit, switching them around bus, personal, gen. I sometimes set up _Tubular bells_ 'cause no one else I know has it ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/5 "2002-11-10T20:14:25Z")
I’ve got _Blister In The Sun_ by Violent Femmes on mine. It’s not my favorite song of all time, but it was the coolest one I could get my hands on, since I have a kind of phone where you have to type in a long sequence of keystrokes to put a new tone in, and there aren’t very many to choose from. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/6 "2002-11-10T20:35:13Z")
I haven’t yet been able to afford a cell phone, but I dream of the day when I am able to get one and install Outkast’s “So Fresh, So Clean” as my ringtone. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/7 "2002-11-10T21:13:01Z")
A pretty geeky, but appropriate, ring tone for me. Ever play GTA3? You know the ring the pager in that game has? Well, that’s my ringtone. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/8 "2002-11-11T01:18:55Z")
Well, I just got the theme to Benny Hill, which totally cracks me up. I was using Mozart 40, but I may have found its replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/9 "2002-11-11T03:43:51Z")
Close Encounters Raiders of the Lost Ark Spider-man and most currently The Imperial March ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/10 "2002-11-11T03:58:20Z")
The theme song from “Knight Rider” is my everyday ringtone. When **Gunslinger** calls me, it plays the James Bond theme. When my dad calls, it plays “Secret Agent Man.” ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/11 "2002-11-11T13:43:57Z")
The Get Up Kids’ _Mass Pike_. I love that my ring tone is a song that most people haven’t heard of. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/12 "2002-11-11T15:04:02Z")
I like the classic, simple ring tone. Phones should ring, not be freaking musical instruments. I have a particular aversion to cutesy ringtones (Close Encounters, anyone?) or ringtones based on current Top 40 hits. My aversion borders on what one might call the insanely violent. As if I haven’t been supersaturated with Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” enough times in every last cafe, restaurant and bar in this goddamn town, I have to hear it in the friggin tram, walking down the street, sitting in the office. I swear to God, one day I’m gonna lose it and smash every last Nokia and Ericcson to itty bitty silicon and plastic bits. Yes, doctor, I _will_ take a chill pill. Several would do nicely. So, yeah, it’s the simple classic ring I like. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/13 "2002-11-11T15:05:42Z")
Oh, actually **Max** no offense. The Close Encounters comment was not directed at you because, in fact, I had not even read your post until after I was posted. But if you do see someone losing it when your phone goes off on the bus, chances are that’d be me. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/14 "2002-11-12T00:24:39Z")
My primary ring is either _The Indiana Jones Theme_ or _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly._ It depends on the mood I’m in. However, when any of my family calls, I hear the _Imperial March._ ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ringtones/136148/15 "2002-11-12T03:55:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*gex gex \*\*\* > I love that my ring tone is a song that most people haven’t heard of. I never recognize the Crap 40 tones they advertise on the tv commercials, but I’d recognize that one.