What ring tone should I assign on my cell phone for when you call me?

Note, black text is their answer, and blue text is my response. Answers without comments are mostly from people I don't know well enough in real life to analyze their pick, or for people who did not identify themselves to me.

  • Hung up (Madonna)

  • Homer singing "Spanish Flea." Good luck finding it.

    I couldn't find it, but once Spanish flea is converted into a ringtone I can always imagine it's him singing it.

  • Donald...Donald...Donald Adamek...Donald Adamek....

    What?. It's available, but I still hold out hope of finding a way to program the tuba part to the Victors to use as your ring tone.

  • Bittersweet Symphony except that I don't have your cell phone number and probably wouldn't call you because of that. :)

  • The Victors...if it's available (f T-Mobile). Alternate answer: In The Stone 2nd Alternate answer: YOU GOT A CELL PHONE??!?

    The version of the Victors that Virgin Mobile has is awful, and they don't have In the Stone. Shotgun wouldn't be a bad choice for you, though.

  • Use a digital recording of a telephone. An actual, metal-bell-being-struck-by-tiny-solenoid-powered-hammer telephone. It'd be the telecom equivalent of that Crash Test Dummies CD that starts out with the scratchy vinyl sound of a phonograph needle.

    That was actually my first choice for my base ringtone - I figured it would be the only thing that would make me realize that the noise coming from my pocket was a phone. Sadly, this is the best they have.

  • Uh, I don't call you, so I guess that's not an issue? :) Of course, it'd have to be, like, the Xena theme song, or something by ABBA...

    I would have chosen ABBA's Ring Ring.

  • I am sure someone else will also say this for themsleves, but I say Super Freak, by whoever did that song.

    That was Rick James, bitch!

  • "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, or "Living on a Prayer" by Jon Bon Jovi, or "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer...really so many songs would be great. You could also pick one of my karaoke songs like "Lets Stay Together" (Al Green).

    Why use Living on a Prayer when I could have Jon Bon Jovi say, "Hey, this is Jon Bon Jovi. Yeah, I set your phone on vibrate."?

  • Mary's Prayer by Danny Wilson or the Facts of Life theme song.

    I don't think that I would have thought of it for you, but their "Facts of Life" is pretty good.

  • The Maryland Fight song... DUH!

    Well, I did tell you ahead of time that it would be your tone.

  • And I've kissed it a thousand times... Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch You know that I love you

    I tried, but it wouldn't download it correctly. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I'm leaning toward Michael Buble's version of Save the Last Dance for Me. But it is hard not to choose this.

  • Gilligan's Island Theme Song. Or, The Love Boat theme. Either would be highly amusing.

    I suppose a phone call from you would be exciting and new, but I'm not expecting it. (See how I cleverly work in the lyrics to the Love Boat Theme?)

  • The theme song to Rocky and Bulwinkle for all those afternoons/evenings we spent playing minature golf (at Bulwinkle's) bs'ing.

    That would have been a great choice if they had it. Along the same lines, how about cartoon bowling sound effects?

  • Baby Got Back

  • "Creep" from Radiohead's "Pablo Honey."

  • I like Mambo #5 by Lou Bega, if you have it. It always makes me think of New Orleans.

    They have it, but I would have chosen Happy Days are Here Again, which they don't have, if I could have.

  • Pink Panther theme.

    Always a solid selection.

  • They don't have any explicitly William Shatner ring tones, do they? Okay, then. Barring William Shatner's actual voice, let's go with the "Speed Racer" theme song. It's unique, catchy, and upbeat. At least I don't think anything else sounds like it when stripped down to a ringtone.

    They don't have any explicitly William Shatner ring tones? Then what's this?

  • New Kids on the Block - The Right Stuff. (it's the right combination of old enough to be uncommon, cheesey enough that it will make you laugh, and, well, the title says it)

    I will never hear that without dubbing over it in my head with Weird Al's "The White Stuff."

  • Fraggle Rock. That's my ringer anyway. It always makes people hum along and say...hey, what the hell is that song?

  • Well, I don't know about your phone, but mine only allows ten different ring tones, so very few people actually get their own. That being said, the Victors would work, but if I were to merit, my own tone, it'd have to be Hava Nagila.

    Well, the exercise is purely hypothetical. Regardless of how many my phone will allow, it charges two bucks a tone, and I don't have that kind of money to burn right now. My first choice for you would have been the tuba part to the Victors, but of available options I would have picked this.

  • A "traditional" ringing ring tone - Be like me- boring, but at least no one is annoyed by my ring tone.

    Non-annoyance is one of my goals, though there is also something to be said for having distinct enough tones that not everybody has to check their phones whenever one person's rings.

  • ABBA Dancing Queen

    I don't like their version much. If only I knew what the Brighton High School Fight Song sounded like.

  • The theme from "Shaft"!

    It works for you.

  • Final Countdown by Europe. It's good enough for Gob!

    Nice choice, though you too would of course get the tuba part to the Victors if I had my druthers.

  • the theme to the goonies

    Is this Good Enough?

  • The theme to "Halloween".

  • When I call you, the phone should play the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

    The only part of The Magic Flute that I believe they have is the Overture. Too bad they don't have Wannabe played on bass.

  • Homer Simpson: "Doh!"

    They sadly have no Simpsons tones, nor do they offer Viva Las Vegas, which would make me think back to our volleyball days.

  • such a presumptious question! you expect me to call you now? I haven't seen you since ConferU was still a fresh corpse! I think we watched Clue... You have to have found a new favorite by now, right? but anyway, i do have a tune stuck in my head recently, and if i were by chance to possibly make a hypothetical call to you at some point (for the sake of arguement) you might as well get it stuck in your head too. It's a synth melody, I believe from Mike Tyson's PunchOut on the NES, but can be heard at nsconanb.ytmnd.com (there's some crazy internets phenom around a scene from that game, search for "stole bike" at ytmnd.com - not for the easily offended by racial slurs)

    At least I've actually met you, which isn't true of everybody who visits this page. Anyway, what do you think about DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's I Think I can Beat Mike Tyson? And what's up with Smith not giving Jeff his props anymore?

    My answer:

    Obviously I'm not going to call myself. What I picked as my base ring tone is The Muppet's Mahna Mahna, but that's mostly because what they've done to my theme song is beyond abysmal.
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