Non-motoring > what's your ring tone?	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Zero	Replies: 40

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:28   what's your ring tone? - Zero

And more importantly - Why? (because you like it is acceptable - but a bit weak) I have a selection general ringtone is the theme from UFO (because I used to fix the golfball printers seen on the opening shot) Nicole is allocated the theme from Allo Allo to indicate its her (obvious reasons) As backups ringtones in case I get bored I have A smile and a ribbon captain pugwash Overture from a bridge too far The march of the oysters from Stingray The sweeney And White wedding by Billy Idol (that is cut to end on "pick it up") Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 23:55 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:34   whats your ring tone - Telb

I use Erik Satie's Gymnopedie no 1. Why? Other than I like it, it's relaxing and calls on the mobile tend to wind me up! Oh, and I've never come across anyone else using it, so I know it's my phone ringing. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:35   whats your ring tone - Pat

Highway to Hell..........because it never gets mistaken with someone else's! Pat Last edited by: pda on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 13:35 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:49   whats your ring tone - Fenlander

Iron Man - Black Sabbath Same reason as Pat :-) To be a bit nerdy I had to make the mp3 myslf on the PC so I had the section I wanted from 28sec onwards. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:52   whats your ring tone - -

The whole theme from the Godfather, always reminds of the stereotype stage Italian portrayed so well in Allo Allo, it shouldn't as the Godfather films were nasty but got to look at life differently. swmbo has the Benny Hill theme, she being a lifelong devotee of non PC and thoroughly sexist fun. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:52   whats your ring tone - tyro

"(because you like it is acceptable - but a bit weak)" How about "Because it was quite pleasant, and I was pretty sure that virtually no-one else would have it as their ring tone* and it was one of dozen or so on the phone when I bought it and I'm not mobile-phone-savvy enough to figure out how to download something else"? *Having something that no-one else has is generally a good idea, since if a phone rings, I want to know whether it's mine. Oh, and the tone is, I think, something from Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. Last edited by: tyro on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 13:52 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 13:55   whats your ring tone - spamcan61

A sound clip of Father Jack yelling "I'm a happy camper! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:07   whats your ring tone - commerdriver

Varies depending on who is ringing SWMBO mobile - always on my mind - Willie Nelson (soppy) older son - combine harvester - wurzels (he is making helicopters in Yeovil) younger son - king of the road - roger miller? (thinks that's what he is) daughter - intro to ticket to ride - beatles (she is a musician and a huge fan) general number (known) - Flower of Scotland (unique in most southern locations) general calls (number unknown) - standard telephone bell ring could get more varied sometime when I have a couple of spare hours Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:05   whats your ring tone - borasport

'er indoors - Carmina Burana, because its distinctive and entertaining, as she is in her own sweet way :-) work - old style ringing telephone, noticable but not too intrusive boss - emergency siren, he tends not to call without reason, though it is occasionally a distraction if I'm driving :-) relatives - The Addams Family, go figure ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:21   whats your ring tone - Armel Coussine

Always fancied the Alleluia chorus, or perhaps the bit of the surprise symphony where the cannon all fire, but the speaker in the phone just hasn't got the oomph... it would only be worth having those ringtones if the speaker could imitate a whole symphony orchestra at something like genuine volume. That would set the cat among the pigeons at a quiet moment in the library. Nor would I be able to arrange anything like that without endless hassle. So I just have a discreet purring phone sound. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:16   whats your ring tone - FotheringtonTomas

I don't have a mobile telephone for general use. The emergency one that lives (switched off) in the car says "ring ring". Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:22   whats your ring tone - Crankcase

Whatever the factory default is I suppose - I have it on permanent silent anyway so it never makes any noises. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:46   whats your ring tone - Focusless

>> Whatever the factory default is I suppose Thank you Crankcase - I was beginning to think I was the only sane person around here :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:47   whats your ring tone - Crankcase

I've been called a lot of things but never that. :) Last edited by: Crankcase on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 14:48 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:27   whats your ring tone - Bellboy

more importantly when number withheld comes up how many peoples hackles are alreasdy raised before its answered as normally its someone with a cloned phone with all the time in the world to ask you stupid questions that you really couldnt be bothered answereing Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:35   whats your ring tone - Bromptonaut

Theme from the sixties tv prog "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" Cos I like it and nobody else has it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 14:54   whats your ring tone - RattleandSmoke

New Order's bizzare love triangle. I thought it would be a bit different, not many people have a hit which reached number 56 in the charts as their mobile ring tone! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:00   whats your ring tone - Alanovich

Ring ring. Ring ring. Ring ring. For all incoming calls, always. It's a telephone, after all. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:06   whats your ring tone - Statistical Outlier

Cheers Alanovich, I was starting to think I was the only one! I have a ring-ring tone. Anything else would either annoy me, seem unprofessional, or generally be unsuitable in some way, although I would struggle to hit the lows of an old school friend who had the Benny Hill theme go off as he was breaking bad news to a patient. Mortified apparently didn't even come close. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:08   whats your ring tone - Zero

I have to say, If I were the patient I would find that quite funny. Certainly better than forced gravitas. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:16   whats your ring tone - Statistical Outlier

He's a Paediatrician. On a brighter note, the one time I did have a comedy ringtone, it was a clip from Mitchell and Webb's German Numberwang sketch: "Acht! Zwei! Das ist Numberwang!". I loved it, but it confused the hell out of my German colleagues. It was quite difficult to explain why the whole sketch was so much funnier just because it was in German. Last edited by: Statistical Outlier on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 15:17 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:17   whats your ring tone - Armel Coussine

Mine goes brrrrrr brrrrrr brrrrrr Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:24   whats your ring tone - Robin O'Reliant

I can't remember. Nobody rings me :-( Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:30   whats your ring tone - Crankcase

Cheers. Now I have the Crusoe theme stuck in my head all afternoon. It's never far away at the best of times. Such a good programme that! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:37   whats your ring tone - Focusless

>> Cheers. Now I have the Crusoe theme stuck in my head all afternoon. This won't help: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:39   whats your ring tone - Crankcase

I have the whole series at home. I shall have to watch it all again from the start now. Any excuse. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:42   whats your ring tone - Zero

this is better - it has all the in episode music www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxiqOPnW84&feature=related Had that been me, I would have strnagled that parrot "Poor poor robinson" Last edited by: Zero on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 15:43 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 22:00   whats your ring tone - BiggerBadderDave

"Theme from the sixties tv prog "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" " I came within a gnat's of walking down the aisle to that tune with my current wife at the registry office on the Kings Road. After much deliberation I went with the theme from Randall and Hopkirk instead. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:22   whats your ring tone - Soupytwist

Theme tune to the Rockford Files on my personal phone. I loved that series as a kid and I loved the Pontiac Firebird he drove. Opening 30 seconds or so of Blondie's Hanging on the Telephone on my work phone. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 15:52   whats your ring tone - Dog

Swmbo has got Baroque which is quite noisy, I've got an old Motorola thing that I paid £10 for in ASDA some years ago. If I could give e a tone - it would be (thanks to Focus) Blakes7 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 16:04   whats your ring tone - Dave_

I sometimes edit mp3s into ringtones too, but I find that not all pop tunes lend themselves to ringtone use. I've had the opening 8 bars of "Take Me To The Hospital" by The Prodigy for about the last 6 months, for no other reason than it's a strident, immediately attention-grabbing noise. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 21:01   whats your ring tone - Bromptonaut

On the subject of professionalism and ring tones: - .********** Each call was announced by the theme for Harry Corbett's Sooty and Sweep Show!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 21:06   whats your ring tone - Bromptonaut

OK the swear filter is set well south of stun so let's try again. On the subject of professionalism and ring tones: - A few years ago I was stuck in a train near Watford. The guy sat opposite me was clearly headed for London for a series of meetings of the BTOYA variety and arranged for each subject to ring him at ten minute intervals. I guess he managing an IT project headed for bellyupland and each victim got a rollocking of incrementing ferocity. Carriage reduced to stitches as each call was announced by the theme for Harry Corbett's Sooty and Sweep Show!! Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Tue 16 Mar 10 at 21:08 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 21:13   whats your ring tone - Runfer D'Hills

Ring Ring I'm afraid. Chuffing thing rings about 30 times a day so anything more complicated could actually be detrimental to sanity. I would like to dis-invent incoming calls to mobile phones and incoming e-mail too come to that. Scourges of modern life unless I need to scourge someone else that is......... Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 21:17   whats your ring tone - Ted

Ummm...mine rings like a telephone...probably similar to Monsewer D'Bout. It is loud though, this Doro phone is designed for us crumblies ! Did have Caruso singing ' Your tiny hand is frozen ' from lan Boheme on my other phone but this one won't record or take piccies. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 22:01   whats your ring tone - R.P.

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New Tue 16 Mar 10 22:06   whats your ring tone - Runfer D'Hills

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New Tue 16 Mar 10 23:15   whats your ring tone - Ted

Just noticed my post....Did Puccini really write an opera called ' Ian Boheme ' ? Or was it just a freudian finger slip ? Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 16 Mar 10 23:27   whats your ring tone - Badwolf

When SWMBO rings - 'Everything' by Michael Buble. It's 'our' song and the one we will have for our first dance when we get married at the end of May. The boss has the theme from 'Jaws'. My Best Man has the theme from 'The Muppet Show', not because he's a muppet - it just suits him somehow! My brother has 'Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel' by Tavares. Other 'known' numbers just have a normal 'ring ring', actually called 'Nokia Tinkler'. Unknown numbers/caller ID witheld have the 'Nokia Tune' ie the one that rings just before Dom Joly whips out his giant phone on 'Trigger Happy TV'. I have so many different ones as my phone is generally in my pocket while I am driving so I need to be able to tell who is ringing before I decide whether to answer it or not. On Bluetooth, of course! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 17 Mar 10 06:43   whats your ring tone - Vicar of Bray

i have a recording of myself playing largo from new world symphony - on a baritone horn, accompanied by edwin harpers orchestra. Circa 1986 at the floral pavillion in Bridlington. Can't bear to use it tho, cos i had a habit of splitting the odd note out of stage fright. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 17 Mar 10 07:23   whats your ring tone - BobbyG

Where did my post on this subject last night go? Reply to this message | Report message