It isn't funny, it isn't cute, and your friends aren't joking when they tell you it makes them want to puncture their eardrums -- so just admit it, your ringtone sucks. In fact, every time it goes off while we're together, I'm embarrassed to be seen with you.

Fortunately, now I can fight back. Emotive, a southern California technology company, just got $7.7 million in funding from a bunch of investors to create a device that can override your ringtone with one of my own choosing. That's right, the "Push Ringer" lets me make your phone sound however I want.

While I could be nice and make your phone ring with stuff I think you'd like, thanks to your flagrant trespasses against good taste with that God-awful "My Humps" ringtone you think is so damn amusing, I'll be forcibly serenading you with "The Thong Song," Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind" or Alanis Morisette tunes. Ha! Isn't that ironic?

In all seriousness, obnoxious ringtones are not only irritating, they make you look tacky. Do yourself a favor, and change it -- before someone else does it for you.