# What are the best ringtones you've heard? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719 "2005-09-27T18:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/41 "2005-09-30T01:57:19Z")
I knew a guy with the theme from Halloween. I would pick that as my ringtone if I had a cellphone. ---
**Author:** ![Shibumi\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Shibumi\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shibumi_II)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/42 "2005-09-30T02:04:14Z")
If youve ever seen Eurotrip Id reccomend “Scotty Doesnt Know” even if you havent check it out ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/43 "2005-09-30T02:13:17Z")
> [@Wesley Clark](#): > > I knew a guy with the theme from Halloween. I would pick that as my ringtone if I had a cellphone. That’s what I’ve got. I switch it around with “Tubular Bells”. My friend has an extremely realistic chicken clucking. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/44 "2005-09-30T02:18:50Z")
> [@Shibumi II](#): > > If youve ever seen Eurotrip Id reccomend “Scotty Doesnt Know” even if you havent check it out Heh, I put that on my phone after I noticed that the David Spade lookalike had it on his cellphone as a ring tone. My general ringtone is Moonlight Sonata. I wanted to find the most annoying possible for whenever my mom calls, so I have the Excitebike theme, bitches. Your Mario can’t touch it. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/45 "2005-09-30T06:41:48Z")
> [@Hippy Hollow](#): > > I have the theme from the “Borat Show,” one of Sascha Baron Cohen’s characters on Da Ali G Show. It usually goes unrecognized, but once I was on a bus when it rang - and two guys cracked up laughing. My advisor, a no-nonsense economist, once heard it ring and said, “Is that from Ali G?” Hilarious! I **must** have that ringtone! Borat rules! I hope I can find it for my phone. My ringtones are customized to the caller for the most part. My super mario brothers has no person yet, I have to wait for the right one. My roomate like South Park so his is “Uncle Fucka”, my best friend’s name is michael, so his is the theme from Night rider. My dad loves Dylan, so his is “Like a Rolling Stone”, my friend likes Ren and Stimpy so his is “Log”, and another friend has the theme for the A team. My main ringtone is “Strawberry Letter 23” by The Brothers Johnson, I love that song. I first heard it when Samuel L Jackson was loading Chris Tucker’s body into the trunk in Jackie Brown. I’d love to have Steven Colbert doing his “God Machine” thing, or maybe the Close Encounters song. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/46 "2005-09-30T07:18:13Z")
My son has the theme song from Fraggle Rock. It gets grins. I tell him I’ll get a cell phone when I can flip open the clamshell and have it make the Star Trek communicator tweet. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/47 "2005-09-30T16:17:41Z")
> [@Millit the Frail](#): > > That’s mine! For when my husband calls. For regular calls, I used to go for something that would seem funny, like “Iron Man.” Because no one expects someone who looks like me to use a Black Sabbath ringtone. I programmed it myself, so it was just the beep-beep-beep, but I think that made it all the more silly sounding… Yeah, my husband thinks it’s hilarious when I have mine on “Big Pimpin’.” So sometimes I tease him when he calls … “You just played ‘Big Pimpin’ in K-Mart!” My phone is currently playing Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” My husband’s plays “American Idiot.” ---
**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:** [September 30, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/48 "2005-09-30T17:58:02Z")
[Fark](http://www.fark.com) had an “audioedit” of [ringtones](http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1674243) yesterday… Not all of them are Fark-related, and some of them quite funny. [This one](http://goulet.ytmnd.com/) was my favourite (though it does take a little knowhow to record/convert it to a ringtone… But I think it’d be worth the effort. Oh, HomeStarRunner fans might appreciate [my entry](http://audioedit.vunct.net/filereq.php?file=a499n1)… It’s from Marzipan’s answering machine. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/49 "2005-09-30T19:19:12Z")
Mine is 80s classic “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats. Most people just look at me like I’m a leper when it goes off. Some laugh. A select few actually applaud my choice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719.md?page=2)