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Ariel
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Recently I was sitting in a waiting room when someone's mobile phone went off:
"Want a cappucino? Want a cappucino? Want a capp-"
which made everybody smile.
We've all made choices on what to have for a ringtone - did you go for practicality, ease of audibility, your favourite tune, or something distinctive?
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Uncle Pete
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Factory setting does me well.
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cattyish
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It has to start loud for on call days at work and be distinctive enough so I know it's mine. It has been the Gloria from Handel's Dixit Dominus. Currently it's Jai Ho, the AR Rahman version used in Slumdog Millionnaire.
Cattyish.
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Bene Gesserit
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One of my colleagues once recorded her (very) little boy saying "Mummy, your phone's ringing" as her ringtone. It was cute the first time you heard it but a year or so later it just grated.
Mine is set to a good old-fashioned ringing phone at the moment, but I did have The bear necessities for a while.
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Sipech
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My mum has my brother-in-law's old phone. He's a bit of a geek, so his message tone had Yoda saying, "message from the dark side, you have" and my mum, being technologically less apt than average, hasn't worked out how to change it.
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leftfieldlover
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I have got a strange up-tempo version of 'I do like to be besides the sea-side' on mine. I used to have what sounded like an alien space-craft landing nearby, but husband was freaked out by it!
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LeRoc
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I have the anthem of the province of Groningen (from the Netherlands).
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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For family, my ringtone is "The Addams Family", except for my sister (and one friend) it's "Curse of the Black Pearl". You can't tell my brother-in-law, as he and my sister have had a play battle over her infatuation with Jack Sparrow for years. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
For the rest of y'all it's Mozart's "Dies Irae" from his Requiem. Well, except for my musician friends who have various Bach pieces!
Way back in the day, I had to create my own ringtones, since the ones that came with my original iPhone didn't have anything I liked.
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Chocoholic
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I was on a busy, quite quiet commuter train one evening when the sound effect from the shower scene from Psycho sounded from someone's phone, it raised a lot of smiles.
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Ann
Curious
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Just the default for most contacts, but Addams Family for family and St Trinian's for my daughters. I used to have Send in the Clowns for church contacts but that got lost the last time I played with the settings nad I haven't bothered to put it back.
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Schroedinger's cat
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I am boring, and tend to stick with the default. My wife used to have one that was someone a bit like the crazy from but less irritating, going "a ring ring ring a ding ding", which was quite embarrassing when it went of in a quiet prayer time.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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I have a braying donkey for calls and Eric Idle saying, "I want to be a woman" for text messages.
The first has gone off in the church prayer meeting, and the latter when people were queueing for communion in church. I must remember to switch to flight mode. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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St. Gwladys
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I haven't got it, but would love to have the saxophone solo from "Baker Street"
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BessLane
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For calls mine is Billy Currington's Pretty Good at Drinking Beer. For text messages is Rehab's version of The Bartender Song and for pics/vidoes it's Rockin' the Beer Gut by Trailer Choir.
Yes, there's a theme going on there ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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The5thMary
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quote:
Originally posted by tessaB:
The old Doctor Who theme! What me, a geek? No,no, no!
Oh, man! I would LOVE to have that! Where'd you acquire your's?
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Lamb Chopped
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Bach--Jesu joy of man's desiring for calls, and for alarms, what else? Sleepers Awake.
[ 13. October 2014, 02:00: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]
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Welease Woderwick
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I had a mad day about a year or so ago and downloaded loads of themes - for alarms, as reported elsewhere earlier, I have Ride of the Valkyries and for calls I am currently using a Panchavadya [local Kerala temple music] theme - both set on maximum volume as my hearing ain't what it used to be.
eta: overnight my phone rests in a steel tumbler so the alarm sound is really powerful!
[ 13. October 2014, 04:16: Message edited by: Welease Woderwick ]
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Lord Jestocost
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quote:
Originally posted by leftfieldlover:
I used to have what sounded like an alien space-craft landing nearby, but husband was freaked out by it!
TARDIS sound for me ... always fun to watch people's reactions.
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Originally posted by Bene Gesserit:
Mine is set to a good old-fashioned ringing phone at the moment
I find this - or anything approximating what I expect a ringing phone to sound like - to be increasingly hard to find in the plethora of ringtone options that are indistinguishable from other potential noise sources.
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Piglet
Islander
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quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
I haven't got it, but would love to have the saxophone solo from "Baker Street"
Now that would be cool. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
PS Thanks for the earworm!
[ 13. October 2014, 15:07: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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St. Gwladys
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
I haven't got it, but would love to have the saxophone solo from "Baker Street"
Now that would be cool.
PS Thanks for the earworm!
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"Shields up" and the siren from Star Trek, the original series. No-one else has it, so I'm never reaching for a phone when someone else's is ringing.
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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Tonight as I left the station there was the sound of a cow mooing.
I looked around and sure enough it turned out to be somebody's mobile phone.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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At handbell rehearsal tonight, I heard bells ringing the wrong tune. It was E6-F6's cell!
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Tonight as I left the station there was the sound of a cow mooing.
I looked around and sure enough it turned out to be somebody's mobile phone.
DIL had something similar some years ago. The longer she took to answer the phone, the more frantic the mooing became.
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Wednesbury
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Bach--Jesu joy of man's desiring for calls, and for alarms, what else? Sleepers Awake.
I used to have Ich ruf zu dir (=I'm calling you) but after years of missing calls because it was too quiet, I've reluctantly reverted to one of the factory settings.
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