Sitting in a restaurant for lunch and all I'm hearing is bad digitized choices. They might have been "cute" when you first heard it, but that shit gets old fast . . .

"Hello? . . . Oh nothing . . . We're just in the middle of lunch, bothering the other diners w/ our mindless cell phone chatter."

I think the concept of "cell-free dining" has gone the way of "the brick."

As long as someone is talking in a "normal conversation voice for the setting" I see nothing wrong w/those at other tables talking among themselves or to no one at the table and each on their own cellphones talking to who knows who. Same for the person dining alone.

To listen in on a telephone conversation at another table is just as rude as listening in on a face to face conversation at the same table.

Yeah, except when it's the only voice you can hear in the house, and don't tell me it doesn't happen!

I like to make ringtones appropriate for who's calling.

Unknown caller: "Who Can it be Now"
Ex-Wife: a movie sound effect of Godzilla
Mom: part of Bohemian Rhapsody where Freddie is singing "Mamma"
Work: "I Don't Want to Work"

and my basic ringtome is "Whadda Ya Want from Me?"

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Originally posted by cable68:
I like to make ringtones appropriate for who's calling.

Unknown caller: "Who Can it be Now"
Ex-Wife: a movie sound effect of Godzilla
Mom: part of Bohemian Rhapsody where Freddie is singing "Mamma"
Work: "I Don't Want to Work"

and my basic ringtome is "Whadda Ya Want from Me?"

Yeah, precisely what I'm talking about. I did like the one that sounded like the siren on a fire truck.

JD,

I got Boomstick on that fire truck ring! Seems only appropriate.

Rich
DRSS

My only ringtone is a Elk bugling. Its easier for me to hear. You know most of us have heard to much gunfire.

God Bless, Louis

I use a guinea fowl whistle and chatter. It's unique and sets heads turning trying to determine what that noise is.

Sad gits the lot of you.
I have neither cell phone nor TV & IMO anyone with a "personalised ring tone" is a wet hen.

At the factory were I work I have to use vibrate ((it is very loud in the toolshop)). It's all my phone is ever set on.

I'm talking about ring tone versions of ABBA or Village People, Blondie, or a really bad digital version of Beethoven's 5th.

My ringtone is a Cuckoo Clock sounding off.

It really confuses a lot of folks.

My incoming ringtone is an old Eddie Cochran instrumental called Eddie's Blues just because I love it so much & it's different from every other bugger's and my sms warning is Monty Python's Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life because I HATE those bloody messages and the music reminds me life is too short to be pissed off about such trivialities.

My current one is "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell......just because.

Mine rings like a phone

I've been leading a rather sheltered business life about the last 6-7 years. A couple weeks ago I attended a US Export conference where there were a bunch of politicos and it was the first time I went to the bathroom and virtually everyone in a toilet stall was talking on a phone. I sure struck me as bizarre having all these guys using their "business voice" while taking dumps.

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
Sad gits the lot of you.
I have neither cell phone nor TV & IMO anyone with a "personalised ring tone" is a wet hen.

Fellas, not but one or three members here know me (yet), but this one does. It follows that of course I know him.

He is a lyin sack. He DOES have a cell phone, I seen it. It is the same little POS that I got. His mad fon skilz is about like mine. One half of DICK !

My ringtone from the office is AC/DC's Hells Bells, cause if they are calling me, its not good news!

It is always a giggle to be the lowest level geek sitting in a web meeting with a dozen VPs and directors from 3 different continents and hear a rooster crow.

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Originally posted by Jerry H:

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
Sad gits the lot of you.
I have neither cell phone nor TV & IMO anyone with a "personalised ring tone" is a wet hen.

Fellas, not but one or three members here know me (yet), but this one does. It follows that of course I know him.

He is a lyin sack. He DOES have a cell phone, I seen it. It is the same little POS that I got. His mad fon skilz is about like mine. One half of DICK !

OK you feathered fartbag; I might own one but only use it as an alarm clock.
Still don't have a goggle-box tho'.

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Originally posted by cable68:
Ex-Wife: a movie sound effect of Godzilla

Mine rings like a phone - except for my ex-wife. I want to know right away it's her, so I don't answer and she has to go to voicemail, and I have it for evidence.

I'm thinking of downloading the Darth Vader theme from Star Wars for her ring...

still a great avatar

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Originally posted by SR4759:
It is always a giggle to be the lowest level geek sitting in a web meeting with a dozen VPs and directors from 3 different continents and hear a rooster crow.

Sir, your avatar hits home. I have Dad's uniform patch as well as many many stories he told. Dad was with Fox 2/2 2d MarDiv when they landed on Tarawa.