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Super Amputee Cat

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Cell Phone Ring Tones

Its Billboard Hot Ringtones Chart debuted in November; currently in first place is "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent featuring Olivia.

Billboard also added a Ringtone of the Year category to its annual awards, bestowing the title in December to 50 Cent's "In Da Club
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It's bad enough we have to hear annoying conversations all day, but now we're subject to lowbrow, offensive lyrics from pop stars as well. +o( +o(

What's it going to take to get these people to STFU?!! If there's ever a case for the legalization of cell phone jammers, this is it right here.
 
Either I am too old or not hip enough but I do not recognize any of those
"Top 10 Ringtones" listed in the article.

But then again it does not really matter anyway because I don't have a cell phone.
 
Our young planner I, whose office is beside mine, has the theme from Godfather on his cell. And he has the ring volume set on 10. He's always walking away from his office and leaving it on his desk to cycle through and through.

NTTAWWT.

:-@
 
I had Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight as the ringtone for my SO way before the commercial and also had Kansas' Dust in the Wind and Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover for regular rings. After that damn commercial, I had to switch my SO's ring to Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. ;-) I like custom rings, but I stick with the ones that are less annoying and not so trendy, like the rap ringtones (sorry to those living the thug life). I usually have the ring volume pretty low or have the phone set for silent/vibrate.
 
I downloaded the Partridge Family's " I Think I Love You" ring tone simply to irritate my boss. It's the little things in life that bring me joy.
 
When my phone rings it plays the theme to "Super Mario Bros 1" If you can find a midi, mp3, wav of a song or sound clip, trim it down to what you need.. use one of the free uploading tools, you'll never pay $2.50 for a ringtone again...and never should have to begin with.
 
The thing I can't imagine is that people PAY for ringtones. and wall paper for their cell phones. why don't people have better things to do with their money?
 
You all know I hate Culture Pollution as much as the next Planner, but I did find Rush ringtones for my phone. But they are hardly ever on and my phone is typically off at work anyways, so I never hear em.

I do not like the $5.99 Jamster ringtone/wallpaper/games subscriptions they advertise on TV. If people are worried about that, then they should be .... welll.... they should be something.... sorry I am tired this morning and cannot think.

Do people actually have their phones on at work? I think we can have ours on, but I never do. One of our planner's is in the Natnl Guard, and receives calls from his C.O. and I can understand that, but other young planners leaving their loud phones on all day? Setting a bad example for a young planner like me?

....Thanks guys... :-@
 
My ring tone on my elderly (three year old) cell phone is one of the defaults - an old-school Western Electric phone. Call me a Luddite at heart, I guess.

I was in a meeting not too long ago where a cell phone went off. The phone, belonging to someone who was wearing a very expensive suit, blared out "SHAKE THAT ASS! SHAKE THAT ASS!" IMO, anyone who pays $6 a month to get a screen saver of SPINNAHZ! or DA PIMP CUP! on their mobile phone display deserves to be ripped off. It's economic Darwinism in action.

Who do we have to thank for this? Europeans. They started the custom ringtone fad several years ago.
 
Downtown said:
The thing I can't imagine is that people PAY for ringtones. and wall paper for their cell phones. why don't people have better things to do with their money?
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My sentiments exactly!!
 
Dan said:
IMO, anyone who pays $6 a month to get a screen saver of SPINNAHZ! or DA PIMP CUP! on their mobile phone display deserves to be ripped off. It's economic Darwinism in action.
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Amen! That's the only thing good about ring tones is that these consumer zombies have to pay. Of course, they will probably file bancruptcy and we'll all have to pay in the end, but if they get dinged for $6 a month, well that's $6 that they can't use for some other form of lowbrow entertainment.
 
Some people like to waste their money. I don't plan on having a camera or an MP3 player on my cell phone. If I want to listen to music, I will turn on the radio. I figure it this way, it is no different than if someone walked around with a radio with a CD playing. If it gets bad, someone will tell them to shut it off.
 
Dan said:
My ring tone on my elderly (three year old) cell phone is one of the defaults - an old-school Western Electric phone. Call me a Luddite at heart, I guess.
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Ditto...I found it for free by googling "Old Phone ringtone". People think it's cool simply because it's NOT some rap/hip hop/muzak tune.
 
Gedunker said:
Our young planner I, whose office is beside mine, has the theme from Godfather on his cell. And he has the ring volume set on 10. He's always walking away from his office and leaving it on his desk to cycle through and through.

NTTAWWT.

:-@
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Now see? Where you see pain, I see opportunity! Does he ever wear short sleeves to work? If so, put his phone at the bottom of his trash can while he's gone, add paper, then add things like... ink, pencil shavings, pencil lead from a sharpener, leftover lunch, etc. Then, when he gets back... give him a "jingle". Reaching into that wastebasket just might give him a clue how people feel about his phone!
 
Since I lost my previous cell phone, I have a new one :-@ :-@

Haven't set any of the tones yet.
 
I think the way around the annoying ring tones is to simply wait until they come up with the cranial implant phone that rings inside an individuals head.

In the absence of that technological advance you could, if it becomes annoying enough, experiment with your own crude interpretation by shoving the offenders phone into any of their available cranial orrifaces. :D
 
I tried to get the theme to Excite Bike but I couldn't find it in a working format.

Right now it just vibrates. :a:
 
jordanb said:
I tried to get the theme to Excite Bike but I couldn't find it in a working format.
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EXCITE BIKE?! Man, it has been a while, I miss that game... :-D

Good Call!

What about the theme/background music for 1943?
 
I did not like my stock ringtones. So I downloaded Iron Maiden's Run to the Hills. Which I know withoug looking that it is not in top 10.
 
My new cellphone did not even come with a "normal" ring so I had to use the two months of free internet access from Rogers AT&T to download a few normal ones. Ring ring.
 
Run to the Hills. :h:

Why can't we get socially conscious metal anymore? :8:

White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes, he killed our creed
He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives
 
I have '40 Miles' by Congress on mine. Classic early 1990s Italian Piano House. Did it myself, so it didn't cost anything.

I like it, however I'm still acutely embarrassed when it goes off, so usually I just have it on 'Discreet' which means it beeps and vibrates.
 
"Run to the Hills" by IRON PLANNER

WAL-MART came in to see me
They brought me pain and misery
They worked thru bribes, they violated our creed
They took our traffic studies for their own need

We fought them hard we fought them well
At the Planing Commission we gave them hell
But many lawyers came, too many for me
Oh will I ever be set free? (from litigation)

Sitting through hearings and depositions
Zoning ordinances in B-3 don't support their position
Chasing the activists back into their bunny holes
Fighting them at their own game
Payola, free coupons, and a stab in the back
Leaders and the planners, cower from the attack!

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives
 
I wonder.....

Super Amputee Cat said:
Cell Phone Ring Tones


It's bad enough we have to hear annoying conversations all day, but now we're subject to lowbrow, offensive lyrics from pop stars as well. +o( +o(

What's it going to take to get these people to STFU?!! If there's ever a case for the legalization of cell phone jammers, this is it right here.
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What a great idea to create cell phone scramblers that work within 50 yards or meters or whatever you metric types like to use.....chains? (he he he) Probably not legal though....but would be fun to switch on and off as people get calls then call their companies all $%*&&# off...... :-D ;-)
 
If I HAD a cell phone I would pick one (1) of these for a ringer:

Beethoven's 9th

OR

"What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?" - Frank Zappa and Mothers Of Invention, Live At Fillmore

One Ringy-Dingy-Bear
 
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