Pajiba

My ringtone is an ever-changing selection from the list available on prestonandsteve.com. Right now it's Pres doing the audition line "What am I talking about? I'm talking about the need to eat pizza."

Before that it was "Dayman" from Sunny.

Before that it was "Dayman" from Sunny.

:loves you:

I need to get my bridal sack ready.

I bought the three-ringtone package because it seemed thriftier, and I downloaded "Paranoia in Bb Minor" by The Avett Brothers because I liked the sound of it, "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?" by The Clash for my text messages because I only really get texts from the people at work (Barnes & Noble) inviting me out for after-work drinks (Though not lately, sadly). Finally, I just downloaded Kate Nash, "Merry Happy," because the song was making me happy.
I used to have the UK Office's theme "Handbags and Gladrags" on my phone before I broke that one and upgraded to my new red phone because the cell phone guy who talks like Jack Nicholson told me it was good.

I love my cell and I keep it with me at all times. I have no idea how I lived without one. But I am way to lazy to continually change my ring tone as many of my friends do on sometimes a weekly basis. I get the continuous "is that me?" If you are not going to remember don't change it.

Anyways, mine is a loud and very me ring tone. I always know it is my phone riniging. NERD - Lapdance.

Fraggle Rock. Because it's awesome, that's why.

The first 32 seconds of Depeche Mode's Never Let Me Down Again (the instrumental introduction, cutting off right as Dave Gahan starts to sing).

But I usually have my phone on vibrate.

mine is on vibrate.

i ride public transit and it is so effing annoying when someone's cell phone starts blaring out some crazy ass song or mariachi tune or what the heck ever. seriously. why do you need your phone ringtone volume jacked up?

also, i'm pretty low-tech. i still type on typewriters. i just learned how to use a digital camera this year (i adore manual nikons). i didn't get an internet connection at home until this year and that was only cause mr. smash needs it for his IT stuff. also, i didn't have basic cable until this year either - again, mr. smash's doing.

you can all hate on me now.

ps: i don't own an ipod either!
pps: i'm not elderly.

Always Sunny in Philadelphia theme (AudioHijacked from their website)

The theme from The Godfather because it's awesome. And because I'm that pimpin. And because it makes everyone giggle whenever my phone rings.

...Mostly because I'm pimpin, though.

I have no idea what my ringtone is, because I don't want anyone calling me. I don't turn it on. I don't even known my phone number. I only have the damn thing in case I get in an accident and have to call 911. I pay by the minute, and if I don't use it, it doesn't cost me a cent.

Smash: My aunt used to joke that I was the last white person to get a VCR, and that was last year.

Mine is always on "vibrate." I don't like being interrupted by the thing, and rarely answer it. I'll eventually call people back, but people mostly know to email me if something is pressing.

The oh-so-distinctive 'Hello Moto' generic tone they give you for free. It's a fifteen-second techno party, complete with product placement.

I have two, the Pink Panther theme and V from V for Vendetta telling some fools he's going to cook them despite their guns. I'm a slutty nerd badass.

Mine's Brass Monkey. Because it's a funky monkey.

"Instant Karma"-John Lennon. Yeah I'm a hippie/technophile. What about it?

My phone is set on the most normal ring tone I could find. However, I am always searching for John Digweed's "Heaven Scent" and as soon as it becomes available, I'm changing it.

i hate cell phones too. i use it mostly as an alarm clock. but i am a sad sack that actually has a library of tones to choose from because not only do i have iPod-ADD, i have ringtone-ADD. i just wish cingular/at&t/suncom/whatever had talking heads songs:

always look on the bright side of life spamalot
solsbury hill peter gabriel
baby got back sir mix a lot (i just think it's funny)
my humps black eyed peas (not the actual song, the michael scott version)
the godfather theme (it's what i wake up to)

hmm...i guess i will have "once in a lifetime" (thanks to sean) once i figure out that audacity stuff. i'm pretty special when it comes to computers so we'll see :)

Mine ringtone is Beverly Hills by Weezer. Because California is warmer than Wisconsin this time of year and for that one brief shiney moment when someone calls because they care, I can think of warmer places. Before that it was the theme to The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. Still got the warm fuzzy that someone wanted to talk to me, but I like palm trees better than the desert visual.

The downside to having a ringtone as awesome as Fraggle Rock is that people get pissed when my phone is on vibrate. For example, a conversation I had Saturday while sitting four feet away from my best friend:

Me: Why the hell are you calling me?
Friend: Why the hell is your phone on vibrate?
Me: I just came here from work, weirdo.
Friend: Goddammit, I wanted to listen to Fraggle Rock.

As further evidence of my Luddite tendencies, I use the plain ole' "beep" that came with the phone. For a while I tried out some of the other preprogrammed jingly-janglies, but they all ended up irritating and embarrassing me.

However when I call Mr. Pink, his phone plays "The Imperial March", and when I call one of my best girlfriends, her phone plays "Toxic".

Take from that what you will.

I'm evidently much older and more crotchety than my appearance and birth certificate let on.

Actually, I find a lot of middle aged and older women have ridiculous musical phones. It's definitely not an age thing.

I got a mobile phone when I was sick of sharing a line a few years ago, but I barely talk to anyone for any length of time. Lost the habit around 16. I just use a little chirpy beep, but that doesn't mean I'm going to answer it, only that I can call *you* if I need to. Sometimes the battery's dying and I turn it off and forget I turned it off a day and a half ago, but anyone can email me if they really need to find me anyway.

But yes, I'm a complete hater for loud ringing, but my true loathing is for people talking either handheld or bluetooth as they absently wander around in public, up to and through paying for something. I used to have people apologize to the person on the phone when they asked me something at the bookstore. Normally I just try to keep calm and sometimes sing "people yakkety yak a streak and waste their time of day" to myself, or else, you know, it'd be murder all the time.

I never have, and so help me never will, downloaded/paid for/used a ringtone. Why force upon my present company an obnoxiously crappy song that no one ever wants to hear? For that matter, why would I want other people to know that I'm receiving a phone call? Some holier than thou "oh my, I simply didn't expect to have so many other people love me during our time together" bullshit just don't fly with me. Is our culture so ADD and vapid that forms of self-expression like a boiled-down version of an over-heard song constitute our individuality? My phone serves the utilitarian function it was designed for, not the pseudo-hip faux-fashion cells have become.

Guess what. My phone's on vibrate. And my form of self-expression is sloughing off this microcosm of cultural decrepitude.

Vibrate. I haven't quite figured out how to get ringtones for free safely yet, and I'm sure-as-hell not paying for the things...
...although, I would rather like "Don't Fear the Reaper" or maybe a nice snippet of "The More You Ignore Me" just to be funny.

Smash - just saw your comment. Props. I also do not own an ipod, nor am I elderly. Not for fear of technology, mind you, just fear of assimilation.

...the ear-piercing shrieks of the damned.

For reasons I don't have to explain.

Otherwise I pop that bitch on vibrate, slip it into a well greased rubber yellow glove and ease the sea back. Aw yeah...

My phone now has the old-school vibrating/normal phone ring combo going on after my friend told me the most horrific story a couple of weeks ago about why you should never have a song as a ringtone.

Her father collapsed at her sister's rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, and as he's in the hospital - possibly dying, possibly already dead - they're in the waiting room having a prayer circle with all the members of her family and their preacher, when her phone goes off....the siren call of of Snoop Dogg's "Sexual Seduction" filling the room.

My current ringtone is Panama by Van Halen. The reason being that Van Halen is my favorite band and my brother downloaded that song for me. I usually wait a while to answer the phone because I enjoy listening to it. So if I answer the phone singing PANAMA!!!! you know why.

Nicole I love you. That's it! I'm just saying it now. I love you. Like the way a kitten loves heavy cream, drunk sororitutes love attention at a frat house, and Tweeter loved the MonkeyMan...I love you.

"What am I talking about? I'm talking about the need to eat pizza." is for when my dad calls.

"Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie" is for my general anyone tone.

"Time to pay the fiddler whore!" is for when my friend Mark calls.

"Clown hat, curly hair, smiley face" when it's Erin.

"Right on sweet sister" when it's my sister.

"Chubby Back" when it's my friend Dave

"WEEEEE! Guess what I get to do" when it's my boy Sean.

And "Matt Damon" when I get a text message.

I.am.a.huge.dork.

I am exactly the same as you, Dawg; I don't ever use my cellphone for anything unless I'm travelling. My ringtone is whatever the default is on my phone. I have no idea; I've never heard it ring because no one ever calls me and the phone is always off. Switching the tone to something else (if I even knew how, which I don't) would be a complete waste of time.

I'm just using one of the ringtones that came with my phone. It sounds like the intro to some sort of 'Journey into the world of Marketing' instructional seminar videotape from the '80's. Oddly sinister.

i broke my razor about a year ago and have been using a really crappy cell from approximately 1999. the phone itself is kind of falling apart and possessed, as in it makes calls and changes its ringtone without my knowledge. it's great when i'm in class and my phone starts blaring out "ragtime" or "turkish march" in the middle of a lecture or test when i had thought it was on silent or vibrate. i don't know what that says about my personality, probably that pretty much unconcerned with things like ringtones, and sort of cheap/lazy because i haven't caved and bought a new phone already. if i were forced to have a real ringtone though, i'd go for "ageless beauty" by stars just because it's a great song and one of my favorite bands.

My current ringtone is Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker.

Before, I've had:
The end theme from The Boondocks
Protection - Massive Attack
Futures - Zero 7

However, none of these really mesh well in an office environment, so I had to pick something that did. Lucky for me that I love The Nutcracker.

My ringtone is a 45 second excerpt from Zappa's "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes". I like getting calls in grocery store checkout lines, and quiet waiting rooms because then old ladies give me dirty/scared looks. Someday this ringtone will lead me to my soulmate.

PissBoy, we are a match made in heaven. My first ever P&S ringtone was "Big Brown Guatemalan Nipples."

Ringtone: The University of Florida Fight Song (when my phone's not on vibrate).

Reason: Go Gators! Duh!

Good man for knowing it Sean! I love them!

I don't have a cell at the moment, but when I did a few years back, I picked the mewing kitten ringtone becuase it was adorable.

Then the previews for The Grudge started showing, and I lived alone, so I had to change it because that freaky little boy mewing scared the shit out of me.

How happy am I that Dustin kept my original post from the 2 seconds that this diversion was up last week? Tres happy.

Mika's "Grace Kelly," and here's why: my almost-2-year-old niece LOVES it, and has for months. One of the first words she ever said to me was, "Muh!" which eventually became, "Muh-kah," and then, "Mika." It turns out she was asking me to get out my phone and make it play Mika so that she could dance to it.

Before that, it was Bowie's "Let's Dance," and she loved that one, too. When we're out somewhere and she's really riled up and distracted, I just get out my phone and alternate between those two songs so that she can dance. (Don't worry -- I play it really quietly for her so that she's the only one who can hear it, not everyone else in the store.)

"Scotty Doesn't Know" from Eurotrip; only because it's the most awesome film cameo I've ever seen.

"Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden. Because it rocks. The beginning of the song with those high guitar notes actually make it sound like a ringtone. Mr. shelleyh put this on my phone when he discovered the software to make your own ringtones. He also put on his phone as a ringtone for when I call him, the theme from "Psycho." Hmmm, can't figure out why.

My cell phone is always on vibrate and always in my front pockets so that when my boyfriend calls or texts it's like he's right there in my pants...

See...now I have to go get more Nicole...need more. I want "S-A-TUR-DAY...Palsy!"

My ringtone is "Don't Rock My Boat" by Bob Marley because when I'm getting one of my MANY daily phone calls from stupid and/or annoying co-workers, the mellow mantra of "Please don't you rock my boat / 'Cause I don't want my boat to be rockin' anyhow" keeps me from slaughtering everyone at my job.

The ringback tone which plays when people are dialing through to me, however, is Lionel Richie's "Hello." And you know that's awesome.

For most calls, I have the old-fashioned ring, though a few close friends get 'signature rings'.
Pictures of Lily, Son of a Preacher Man, Tubular Bells, and the Green Hornet Theme.

My ringtone has a name I don't even remember. It's sort of "Robot" or so -- nobody around seemed to use or like at the time, so here's my natural choice.

Like the first commenter tamatha up there, and Dustin himself, I really do not care about this whole "let's be oh-so high tech all the time". My Nokia 66-something was bought almost four years ago, has been working flawlessly since then, and I rarely use it for more than check what time it is and for two or three friends to call me up and meet somewhere.

And there's no intention of tossing it out and getting a new one, when it's working so fine.

Insertclevernamehere you must get out of head.

'Tessie' is the ring for the little brother
'C'mon, C'mon'used to the the generic-I can't be bothered to assign you something else ringtone, which has now been replaced by 'One Step Beyond' by Madness
'Ball and Chain' plays when the hubby is on the line
The phone also plays 'Beer' by Reel Big Fish, 'Indestructible' by Rancid, and 'Mabel' by Goldfinger. All of which are assigned accordingly.

Just to add this: my "most interesting" story about ringtones must be that I made one of those mentioned friends the CTU ring from 24 (you know, blu-blu... baaa-dooo). A few adjustments later (volume, equalizing, cuts), he's got the real thing now and loves it. It's kinda funny when we're out, his phone rings and just one or two people look around recognizing it with a smile.

My ringtone is Weezer's Say it Ain't So. Mostly because it's an awesome song, but also because it's LOUD so I never miss it. I have no regular phone, so any calls I get go directly to it.

My general ringtone is "Breakin' Up" by Rilo Kiley mostly because the chorus is just fun and I'm fairly stubbornly single.

I got an iphone for Christmas (yes I know I'm spoiled) and I kind of had too much fun making my own ringtones in Itunes. So lots of people have their own signature ring with various reasoning for each. My favorite is "Jessie's Girl" which plays whenever my brother (Jesse) or his fiancee calls.

Depending on the caller it's either "The Office" theme song or "The Muppet Show" theme song.

I hate technology, but I love my ringtones. I get an insane number of compliments on them.

Mine is currently The Divinyls "I Touch Myself." For all calls. I just really like it.

I switch frequently between two ringtones because otherwise I start hearing phantom ringing if I use one for too long. My two are: the Hawaii Five-O theme and the very beginning of Styx - 'Mr. Roboto.' Good strong openings that make me realize the phone is ringing.

My msg ring is 'Why Does it Always Rain on Me' - Travis.

Totally pointless to have them though because it's mainly always on silent for work and on the weekends, when I don't want to talk to anyone either.

For calls WITH caller ID, some groovy, '70's guitar funk. Just because it was the LEAST annoying option programmed into my phone, and I'm usually too cheap/lazy/techno-illiterate to download ringtones from outside sources.

One exception: "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, for all calls with blocked ID's. Because, of course, they're usually sales people or crooked folks pretending to be debt collectors. The only problem is I've developed a Pavlovian response to a beautiful song- and it involves teeth-grinding annoyance and the urge to kick people.

I assure you I'm not as cranky as I must seem today.

My general ringtone is "Rock Lobster" by the B52s. If I get a bunch of calls in a row, my boyfriend will sing along and change the words to "Miss Popular!" And I picked that song because it's fun. And I'm fun. That's how it works.

Before I switched providers, I had the Buffy theme song which was so great. I loved to get calls. It was fun to be at parties and have someone here my phone and get excited. Because meeting fellow Buffy fans is always a good thing.

Beck, "Cellphone's Dead". Too obvious? Maybe, but it's groovy and still makes me smile.

Mine's the first bit of the first movement of Mozart's Symphony #40. I had Mozart on my first cell phone, and I'm really used to hearing it now. Plus it makes me happy.

Not that anyone ever calls me, but still.

I'm poor and something of a Scrooge when it comes to technology, so I'm relegated to the sound of a choo-choo train pulling up to the station. Which I don't actually hate.
If I had my druthers though I would get "London Calling" on my phone, not because I get that many calls from London, but because I never, ever get tired of that song.

Dangle, I already told you I hate the concept!

What, that's trendy now?

But otherwise, yeah, "Lump" *is* catchy! I'm gonna go into a mid-nineties flashback, back when the world was new!

Velocity Girl where are you????

I go back and forth between "Fuel" by Metallica and "Badlands" by Bruce. Why? Because I love James & Bruce.

Zombie by The Cranberries... because I am an angry white chick.

Search You Tube for "Trigger Happy TV Giant Phone Compilation" if you don't know what I'm talking about...

Laura @5:08 - I'd use Careless Whisper, but I wouldn't want to get misty every time my phone rings.

My ringtone is whatever I could find in the ringtone menu on my phone (I'm cheap, bitches)
and there were only like three choices (cuz, I'm cheap, bitches). I'm on one of those pay-as-you-go plans (I think you know why). So that's my story. No creativity when it comes to my ringtone.

I will say that I was getting my hair done
(did for all the brothas and sistas out there, holla) last week in large salon in a department store. I was at a sink station and sitting across from me was a woman whose phone began ringing.

What did it play, you ask? That goddamned Alicia Keys mess No One where Keys warbles incessentaly over and over again - the musical equivalent to nails on a chalk board. The woman was getting her hair washed so her stylist had to rush back to her station to get the woman's phone for her.

IT. WOULD. NOT. STOP.

Oh Lord, I have never wanted to commit phonicide so badly and right in front of its owner just so I could see the shocked and disgusted look on her face. I chose the high road however, and let her phone live. Of course, my inaction was rewarded
with her then having a converstation with some man about dinner arrangements on SPEAKERPHONE so I got to hear every fucking detail. This of course proves the old axiom; no good deed goes unpunished.

Did I mention that she talked loud?

It used to be the main title theme of "The Wizard of Oz."

The new one is the theme to "The West Wing."

The ringtone for the boy that annoys me: The Cell Block Tango, from "Chicago."

Standard Ring: 'Dancing With Myself' by Billy Idol

Parents: 'Margaritaville' by Jimmy Buffett

High school friends: 'The Boys Are Back In Town' by Deep Purple

Best Friend: '1985' by Bowling for Soup

Alarm: Spongebob Squarepants Theme. (I used to love it, but after having it for my alarm for so long, merely hearing "WhOOOOOOOOO lives in a pineapple under the sea?" sends me into a panic.)

I used to have Blink 182's "Dammit" as my ring tone.

I miss it.

Stupid useless Motorola that needs to die.

The Super Mario Brothers theme! Chosen because I spent many a happy day of my youth sitting in front of the SNES in the basement trying to get Mario his damn feathers. Just for the record, I'm the child of two Scots. Sunlight's harsh on me, okay?
Chosen because my alternate ringtone (salt'n pepa's 'push it') constantly scared the shit out of me when it burst out with, 'OOH BAY-BUH BABY! B-BAY-BUH BABY!'

E-friends:

Ringtones are not a manifesto of fascism. True. But as the fiberglass is wedged so deeply up my cockhole that I cannot help but feel its sting through my every waking minute, I latched onto the pretension of a facet of American culture I thought could not possibly escape the scathing bitchy attention of a site such as pajiba. Manifesto of fascism, no. Ubiquitous blight on our cultural radar and playing right into the hands of corporate cell companies, most certainly.

My bitterness rarely comes out in regards to movies. I love to love good flicks, and i love to hate bad flicks. Just present me with useless popular tripe, and I'm set off.

Kisses and butterflies!!

My default ringtone is "9 in the Afternoon" by Panic at the Disco. Cue Pajiban mocking and excommunication! The other nine ringtones I have on the phone aren't likely to be more popular with this set -- "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel, "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" by Fall Out Boy, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic at the Disco, "Outta My Head" by Ashlee Simpson, "Smile for the Paparazzi" by Cobra Starship, "Bring It" by Cobra Starship, "Pretty Handsome Awkward" by The Used, "Discotech" by Young Love, and "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" by Say Anything.

I've got a Sidekick, which means that, yep, I'm one of those obnoxious wretches glued to their phones. This just in: double-tasking is possible.

'Like O, Like H' by Tegan and Sara is my default ring, 'Rise Up With Fists' by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins plays when my mom calls, and 'Nights of the Living Dead' by Tilly and the Wall plays when my sister calls. I also have 'Nineteen' by Tegan and Sara, but I haven't assigned it to anyone. Right now it just plays whenever I set the alarm.

Mine is set on Vibrate to reduce the amount of annoyance in the world.

i usually keep my phone on vibrate because i HATE talking on the phone. i say that i was in court so i had to turn the ringer off and i forgot to turn it back on--which was true the first few times i left my phone on vibrate--if i miss an important call (only applies to doctors and clients).

my friends and family know that i don't answer my phone or check my messages so they e-mail me if they actually have something important to discuss.

my ringtone used to be Faint by Linkin Park because it really annoyed people when my phone would ring and "i won't be ignored" came blaring out. maybe i will turn my ringer back on when i'm on the bus just to piss people off.

Did you ever notice that the only time any character on TV or in a movie has any sort of personalized ringtone is when the writer is trying to make a point about the character? Otherwise every cell phone on TV just chirps or goes beep.

The plain fact is all song-based ringtones sound stupid to everyone who hears them. Ten or twenty years from now ringtones will be how people from the 2000's are mocked -- along with the pants around their knees.

My cellphone currently sucks so I can't download either. When we upgrade this summer I am TOTALLY getting a new ringtone. Mr. greer uses a guitar riff that he created on his stratocaster as his ringtone. I can't top that.

I would probably choose "Toxic" by Ms.Spears, "You Know I'm No Good" by Ms. Winehouse or "It's Not Right But It's Okay" by Ms.Whitney.

Because I love a trainwreck and I am usually expecting disaster whenever someone calls my cellphone.

My Ringtone is I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Sleater-Kinney because a)SK is incredible! and b) it's a song that rocks and it gets my attention when I answer the phone.

My ringtone is the audio i grabbed off the youtube video of Andrew Meyer getting tasered at the University of Florida's John Kerry forum.

Why? Probably because i'm a sick bastard.
i still lose my shit every time i hear him say that infamous line. But i do tend to hold on to trends too long.

I use "God Of Emptiness" by Morbid Angel because it sounds so goddamned funny in ringtone/midi form. I also use the CTU tone from TV's "24" even though I don't really like the show very much anymore. I use "I Was Made For Lovin You" by Kiss for my S.O. tone because I'm just that darned romantic.

My work phone is just a regular (well, as regular as they come now) phone ring. My personal phone, though, has this as its ring:

http://www.spaced-out.org.uk/m2/mp3/Hardcore%20UK%20Raver.mp3

(taken from the end of Series 1, Episode 6 of Spaced). It gets plenty of "what the fuck..." looks.

My ringtone is "Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from A Mighty Wind. It's a terribly charming song and NO ONE has it. Hell, I've only found two people who recognized it when they heard my phone ring.

Brown-eyed girl. Cheesy? Yes! But it has been one of my favorite songs since childhood. I rarely hear it though, I hate talking on the phone, so its mostly just texts.

Well, Tammy, you're correct, and also courteous. I've been working with the public for years, often standing at a desk or counter waiting to give my attention, answer questions and provide services, and also food and beverages a little while ago, and on the whole they are *not* courteous and generally unaware that other people are currently existing with ears. Thus my fits of loathing. Kinda like how I imagine someone working in a department store feels about little dancing sound-activated Santas that play "Jingle Bell Rock" over and over and over. And also like the woman who has very animated and sometimes angry conversations/shouting matches with people who aren't currently actually there, and comes in pretty much every day. "Ma'am, I need you to be a little quieter" "Oh, could you hear me?". Not any less self aware than a lot of other people I encounter. She doesn't have a loud announcing ring though, so it can take you by surprise.

I can only speak for myself but I don't care if someone's being creative and having fun with their gadgets, and in this group I quite like some people's tastes (nice choice with Mike's A-Team techno there), but there is just so much noise people are putting out there these days. I mean, I don't know how someone has that much to say to anyone all the time, but that's not my business, I'm just sick of being involved in the process from beginning to end.

Hey, I can wait, I'm paid to be there all day. Go talk to them first and *then* talk to me.

Please!

The service industry thanks you.

My current ringtone is 'Big Girl (You are Beautiful)' by Mika because I am fat and the song makes me laugh (and makes my rolls jiggle). I suppose it could be an empowerment thing but really I just find it amusing.

My previous ringtone that I had for three years, was "Back in the USSR" because I'm a closet Russophile and it reminded me of being in Moscow.

I have 300 minutes a month and I use about...100. At the absolute most. If it weren't for my job I would use about 30 minutes a month. That's saying something, as I don't even have a home phone.

Anyway! On to the actual diversion... Vibrate, sometimes silent. I just hate hearing it ring. I'm with Jay; there is way too much noise in this world already. If it's really that important then they can leave a message and I will, as my voicemail states, get back to them as soon as possable.

I used to have Europe's "The Final Countdown" but then I switched to Justice's "Phantom." Now I have J Dilla and Mad Lib's "The Red." Because they sound great as ring tones.

The choral arrangement of "Spider Pig" from the Simpson's movie.

'nuff said.

Vibrate.

I've got one of those cheap-ass pay-as-you-go deals, pretty much under protest after I got stuck on a temp job with no communication to the outside world.

(I was in a conference room. Yeah, it had a phone, but when I checked with the switchboard to make sure sure the number on it was the real one I got the news "Oh, I can't send a call there. We can only switch calls to people, not places." Even better? If I wasn't signed in as my boss, I couldn't access my email. So. Communications were I could call out. That was it. Makes it kinda hard to do a job search when no-one can get ahold of you... Wasn't real popular with the temp agency either. If she had to get ahold of me, she ended up calling one of the other temps who had a cell, and have him pass the message I was supposed to call... )

The attitude was if you didn't have a cell, you could just suck on it.

So I got one. The cheapest I could find. (No money. Remember the part about job-hunting?)

Anyway. I'm with Jay, too much annoying noise already. Plus, I cycled through the ones that came with it, and they all pretty much sound alike, generic warbles. Nothing interesting, and I ain't paying for nothing I don't *really* need, so it stays in my pocket on vibrate. Once I get a job, it can sit in a drawer - on vibrate.

Does any one have "Enjoy the Silence" (by Failure)?

As a good Pajiban, maybe I should get that - if I knew how.....

As much as I hate cell phone use in public, I love the ringtone variation. It allows me to decide whether I need to take the call or not from across the room when I'm at home. At work it's always on vibrate and in public it depends.
But more importantly, my favorite ringtones at the moment are: 1. The Simpson's theme as performed by Green Day 2. Holiday by the Get Up Kids and last but never least 3. Carousel by Blink 182

currently my ringtone is 'Let's Dance to Joy Division' by the Wombats, and it is so because I don't mind if I hear it a couple of times a day, it's an instant mood lifter!! I was also too lazy to go through my mp3 list any more...message tone just boring standard :)

Mine has the standard cheap-ass pay-as-you-go ring when it's not on vibrate.

But my husband used to have a personalized one for me: Duelling Banjos. He did it cuz Deliverance scared me so much.

So I had to stop calling him. I couldn't handle knowing that Duelling Banjos was playing somewhere out there.

so, question:

why the pic from a hindi film (i do believe its om shanti om)? what's that gotta do with ringtones?

just curious.

and yeah, i do love bollywood movies. don't judge.

being tactile, i prefer vibrate mode.
each call is always a good vibration.

Also: Wow, you would have never guessed pretentious pajiba readers had pretentious answers for this question.

Ex: my phone's on VIBRATE.

Oh really? All the time? When it's across the room charging? Just own up and tell everybody you got the new B. Spears jumpoff and give it a rest for once.

I alternate between Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous," and "In The Club" and "The Way I Are" by Timbaland.

And yes, just to up the annoyance value, I own a pink Razr.

Hedwig's Theme. Yup. It goes well with my "Dork" button.

i make my own ringtones from songs on my computer. they generally rotate from what i like at the time but one stays the same:
afrika bambataa's looking for the perfect beat.
its from the breakdancing worm commercial for some bank.

When my husband decided he didn't want to be married any longer (but couldn't decide he wanted to be divorced), he changed MY ringtone to "I Hate Myself for Loving You" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. And told me about it. While laughing. And saying how f***ed up my ringtone was.

We don't talk much (although I considered calling him every 15 minutes, just so he'd have to hear it that frequently).

Actually I do leave my phone on vibrate even when it's in the charger. The chargers is sitting on an empty coffee can that amplifies the bzzzz quite nicely.

My sentiments exactly Dustin. I flipping hate cell phones. Just the thought of anyone being able to contact you at any given time. Crazy man.

Anyway my ringtone is this guy saying in a pissed off voice, "My God these people will not stop calling me, this is the reason why we refuse to give our number...PAUSE...to people who constantly stalk us."The last line comes off in a scream.

I love the look on ppl faces when my phone goes off in public.

I have Yello's "Oh Yeah" from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

The only cellphone I've ever owned is now 6 years old, and I hardly ever use it. When I do, I usually get comments like "where'd you get that cell? The 80s?" or get called Zack Morris.

"By the Way" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I don't know if it says anything about me... it's been my ring for at least a year now, so I guess it shows loyalty. It's a bit of an embarrasing one, so I'm shameless.

I leave my cell phone in the grad room at school when I'm in class, so I figure if my mom decides to phone incessantly I might as well give my classmates a minute of sing-a-long fun.

Perhaps my most unintentionally embarrassing ringtone was the two months I used "What the [what] is Ladylike" from Rockstar:Supernova contestant Storm Large. It didn't occur to me that it was unusual for a straight guy to use that until after I was at a crowded open call and people started laughing at me.

Currently, I have two ringtones. For people I know (or who have a listed number), it's "1-2-3-4" by Feist. It's a catchy tune and this ringtone is very, very loud. That's key for the important calls. Everyone else gets "Smile" by Lily Allen, for I need something easily recognizable to tell me not to pick up the phone. I also have "Let Me Entertain You" by Robbie Williams for text messages, for most of the time it's some stupid joke from a friend.

This feels weird...over 200 comments...and all on topic, no fights, no orgies....

The Clash - London Calling.

'Cause I am an OLD Hardcore UK Raver.

Mine's a golden oldie...Spandau Ballet's "TRUE". ringtones need to be loud enuf for u to be able to hear it when u get a call and at the same time, not be annoying to everyone else around u...this one fits the bill

General calls: "I'm alright"- Kenny Logins. Shut up, I love Caddyshack, and the mental image I get of that damn gopher dancing makes me smile every time.
Close Friend: "Living Dead Girl"- Cause we first bonded over love for Rob Zombie
Certain Fella: "Love you madly"- Cake

Ring #5 on my phone I think. It's a beep.

Amanda47
Thanks for pointing me towards the giant phone clip. I thought it was hysterically funny!

HELLO?

For a good long while there it was So Fresh So Clean by Outkast. Just so I could boogie a bit. But now it's the Final Countdown so I can always think of GOB Bluth. I smile whenever it rings.

Mine is the most annoying ringtone EVER. I have the clip from the movie "Finding Nemo" where the seagulls chant over and over again: "mine?"

I think I find humor in pissing off/confusing folks.

My ringtone's the chorus of David Bowie and Trent Reznor's "I'm Afraid of Americans". If that needs explaining, then you need help.

OM SHANTI OM

YES

Mine is just the default ringtone, but I wish it were the It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time song.

'Got Your Money' by Ol' Dirty Bastard, I made it myself so it's just the Kelis part singing 'Hey Dirty, Baby I got Your Money' which makes for an excellent ringtone, especcialy since I've never heard anyone else use this. I also could choose the 'Battle of The Planets' theme which also rules, Or 'The Other Line' (from 'A Prince Among Thieves' by Prince Paul) which is just 'Someone's calling on my phone, Someone is ringing my bell', very appropriate I guess.

"Lollipop" by Mika. Because it makes me dance.

I hate people who hate cell phones. A cell phone is extremely practical and it annoys the fuck out of me that I can't call certain people. Email is too slow as most people only check it twice a day, maybe three times if they are bored.

Anyway, my ring tones are something by Stevie Wonder that my boyfriend put on there as his ringtone but I can't remember what it's called.

Day tripper-Nancy Sinatra for my mom

Some Muse song for my little sister

These Boots Are Made for Walking-for everyone else.

Though my phone is one vibrate about 99% of the time. I don't like blaring my ringers all the time. I only turn them on when I'm in the shower or when I want to be obnoxious.

Mmm-bop by Hanson because it is one of the greatest pop songs ever.

My ringtone was just a regular one, it just sounded like a normal phone.

But now it's Naughty Girl by Mr. G :D
Ectasy, ectasy, e, e, e, e, ectasy.

That should read: "The only woman I am closer to other than her is the missus who shall officially become the missus this July"

I have a very old phone, and it's current ringtone is the old-fashioned phone ring. Nice and simple. I don't have it browser enabled at the moment, but one day, when it dies and I get a new one, my fantasy is to have a clip of "Hello, Dimitri?" from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I'm one of those people who has a different tone for each frequent caller. I'm also addicted to my phone. Shut up.

General all-purpose ring: Six Feet Under theme
My husband: Bewitched theme
My mom: Dolores Umbridge theme from Harry Potter
My sister: Peaches by Presidents of the United States of America