Posts with tag ringtones

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.

A ringtone can say a lot about you.

But what does it mean when U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali has "When the Saints go Marching In" as his ring tone?

It's true. The Egyptian diplomat's very personal ring tone was revealed during a Radio 4 interview on Wednesday morning in the United Kingdom. Apparently, he forgot to turn off his phone, and when someone called, his pocket erupted into a tinny rendition of the gospel hymn, which was then broadcast across the airwaves. Of course, considering all of the ring tones out there, "When the Saints go Marching in" is the one with the most International-Peace-Keeping-force-street-cred.

Go on with your bad self, Boutros!