Ring Tone Tales
Do you think you can tell someone’s personality by their ring-tone?
Sitting in the audience at the Shakespeare Theater, luckily before curtain time, I heard the theme song from “Jaws.” A fifty-something woman in front of me fumbled through her purse, turned to me. “Sorry,” she said through her braces.
My thirteen-year old son set his tone to sound like crickets chirping in hopes that he could call it from our home phone and trick us into looking for the cricket loose in the house.
At the library—another spot where phones should be silenced—the guy sitting in the study carol behind me refused to silence his phone. It played “Sweet Caroline” five times in the course of an hour. Your guess is as good as mine: huge Neil Diamond fan, baseball fan, or “oh, oh, oh” his girlfriend, Caroline calls way too often.
My sister’s teenager got hold of her cell and set it so that each family member had his or her own personal recording as their ring tone. Every time her husband called, she heard his voice saying, “Marcia, pick up the phone.” When her daughter rang, “Mom I need you.” My poor sister, she finally turned the phone off altogether. The tones made her feel pestered.
My latest ring-tone is the monster from Young Frankenstein “singing,” “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” When he screams his line everyone around laughs (including me–it gets me every time!) What does that say about me?
I’d love to hear what your ringtone is and why. Or share your funniest, interesting or creative ring tone ideas.
Feel free to chime in!
9 Comments
October 26, 2008
Very cute! For the longest time my ringtone was the theme song from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. But now it is the Stones Gimme Shelter.
NIce to see you blogging!!!
October 27, 2008
I have a few of those “special code” ringtones…my mom’s is that cricket chrip sound and my sisters is Fur Elise (since her name is Elyse). I know that a few have a special one for me too…Ode to Joy.
Happy Blogging!!!
October 27, 2008
LOL post…I always find the one person in church that doesn’t silence their phone or just leave it in the car. Recently, a phone went off and it was the music from the horror movie Halloween. Sounded real creepy in chuch.
My husband’s ringtone on my phone is Heaven by Bryan Adams, our wedding song. My girls have set their ringtones to their favorite song of the moment.
Warmly,
Donna McDine
October 27, 2008
Mine is currently AC/DC “TNT Dynamite”…
LOL no one believes it’s my phone.
My partner has a dying nokia sound as the ringtone, sounds like a normal nokia with flat batteries.
October 27, 2008
Mine is 'Brothers & Sister' by the Melody Makers. Love the sentiments of that song.
October 27, 2008
My ringtone is Hello Dolly. I’ve always loved the tune and I never get enough of the head turning looks I get when Hello Dolly jungles over the airwaves. My best friend has her favorite song of the moment on hers, my daughters have a selection of tunes, depending on who is calling them. My sons prefer rocker tunes that blow the walls out (thank God cell phone speakers are SMALL). My mom has Amazing Grace on her cell, an accolaide to the concept that it’s an Amazing God who allows her to GET the messages on the “danged phone”. But the most inspiring cell phone ring I’ve ever heard is a friend of mine who is working toward Emerald in Quixtar/Amway and his Ringtone says, “All people are prospects, and prospects are success in action.” in a rather seductive and illicit voice. He gets more people’s names from his cell phone ringing than most of us get from searching for names.
Happy ringing!
Jan
October 27, 2008
Zorba the Greek–need I say more?
Lea the Greek
October 28, 2008
I always liked the low-tech ringtones. The MIDI version of Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” was my ringtone for a while.
Welcome to the blogosphere!
November 10, 2008
This didn’t happen for real. I dreamt it all up for my book. The scene is a very serious meeting with one of the female managers. A real top dog. The participants of the meeting are gathered, but she has not arrived. Nobody speaks, all wait in awe. Then, the door opens and a very corpulent (is that an english word? Meaning fat, but I don’t want to be rude) woman enters. In that moment a mobile phone fires with the tune ‘She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes’. Well, that is one career down the drain!
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