# What does your cell phone ring? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007 "2004-03-13T01:33:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/21 "2004-03-13T11:39:31Z")
_The Piano_ by Michael Nyman. I’m so effete. ---
**Author:** ![Nately\_s\_Whore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nately\_s\_Whore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nately_s_Whore)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/22 "2004-03-13T11:54:15Z")
Layla or Axel F depending on my mood. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/23 "2004-03-13T11:59:54Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > Sorry, but I’m the only person who can have Knight Rider as a ringtone. I dibsed it. You’ll have to have the A-Team. NO! I GOT THE A-TEAM! Hehe, I was just thinking about this, and I saw this thread. It gets a lot of laughs but its kind of embarassing when I am around strangers because its really recognizable ---
**Author:** ![maleinblack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maleinblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maleinblack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/24 "2004-03-13T13:26:11Z")
I am usually shuffling between: Indiana Jones Theme Hotel California Take On Me And a personalised ringtone for my girlfriends cell: Take My Breath Away ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/25 "2004-03-13T16:41:33Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My ringtone is a recording of an old mechanical telephone bell. That one really stands out in a crowd. 🙂 I can’t wait till I have a newer phone so I can have this! I’ve wanted it for years, I tell you. If I’m annoyed at cutesy ringtones, I have a creative “beep…beep”. Usually, I alternate between “Hava Nagila” and the “Good Eats” theme. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/26 "2004-03-13T17:00:30Z")
These are just the downloaded ones. Most of them are from my husband, because my phone is a hand-me-down from him (not that I mind; he’s a cellular phone salesman and has a new phone about every three months). Dr. Dre: Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thing (currently, and likely always will be, my ringer) Missy Elliott: Get Ur Freak On Outkast: Hey Ya Knight Rider theme “Kitty” (Meowing cats. Downloaded to screw with out cats. It works) X-Files theme Cheers theme Magnum PI theme Beverly Hills Cop theme ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/27 "2004-03-13T17:54:11Z")
I will have the Final Fantasy 1 Victory theme, the Zelda overworld theme, and the Brinstar and Norfair themes from Metroid, just as soon as I can find the keypresses for them. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/28 "2004-03-13T20:23:09Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My ringtone is a recording of an old mechanical telephone bell. That one really stands out in a crowd. 🙂 Where can I find this? Get it on the floor - DMX Numb - Linkin Park, first 20sec in 8bit/mono PCM format Like a pimp - Dave Banner? Forgot about Dre - Dr. Dre feat. Eminem Hit ‘em up - 2Pac Wanksta - 50 Cent Break yo’ neck - Busta Rhymes Purple Pills - D12 Know your enemy - Rage against the machine ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/29 "2004-03-13T20:28:01Z")
Mine gently and silently tickles my right testicle. And that’s just how I like it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/30 "2004-03-13T21:31:24Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Break yo’ neck - Busta Rhymes Ooh! Where’d you get that one? ---
**Author:** ![BuckleberryFerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/31 "2004-03-14T03:17:45Z")
Is my phone the only one that sounds like a phone? (And didn’t Denis Leary have a quote about that?) ---
**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:** [March 14, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/32 "2004-03-14T03:31:55Z")
BuckleBerry Ferry: Reading the other posts…clearly, no. You’re not the only person who has a phone that sounds like a phone. (as if all land-line phones sound alike, anyway) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/33 "2004-03-14T03:52:53Z")
**The Pink Panther** But I want **The Foggy, Foggy Dew**! **Ruadh** , where did you get it? ---
**Author:** ![ZoomZoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/5daacb/32.png) [@ZoomZoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZoomZoom)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/34 "2004-03-14T03:58:24Z")
When I Come Around- Green Day ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/35 "2004-03-14T04:01:07Z")
Hava Nagila. I’d like to download something fun (particularly “Blister in the Sun”) but I’m not sure if anything works on my phone. It’s the free Motorola one that comes with Cingular’s family plan. I think I tried searching when I first got the phone but couldn’t find anything, but that could have been for the phone I had before that. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/36 "2004-03-14T04:47:18Z")
Mine sounds like a cell phone when it rings. It goes “ringa-ringa-ringa” ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/37 "2004-03-14T05:20:26Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > I will have the Final Fantasy 1 Victory theme, the Zelda overworld theme, and the Brinstar and Norfair themes from Metroid, just as soon as I can find the keypresses for them. Which I can’t seem to do, after a lengthly search. Does anyone here know where to find them? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/38 "2004-03-14T15:16:36Z")
Depending on who’s calling, my cell rings in the following tunes: Theme from Harry Potter If I Only Had a Brain Drunken Sailor Mambo Italiano Tubular Bells Looney Toons End Theme Ziggy Stardust Star Trek Next Generation Theme I Can See Clearly Now ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/39 "2004-03-14T16:57:20Z")
My cell phone rings two tunes, one for my wife, and one for everyone else. I wrote both of them. They’re from a piano piece and a vibraphone sonata I wrote a while back…it was interesting entering it into the phone, but I can be sure that no one else has my ring! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007/40 "2004-03-14T17:11:24Z")
Mine rings “CQ” in Morse code. 😃 Julie [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-your-cell-phone-ring/234007.md?page=3)