Post #399,887
3/10/15 10:15:49 PM
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okay, sitting in a meeting room on my last trip to fargo
phone rings. I am a little hard of hearing in the upper/lower bandwidths so my ringer is loud. I am getting a round table of bulging eyes and what the fuck looks. Kill the call without answering. Apparently it shocks the younguns when an old fart has "low rider" by war as a ringtone. The version with a lot of horns. So it made me think what do you'all use?
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Post #399,889
3/10/15 10:20:38 PM
3/10/15 10:20:58 PM
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This.
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Edited by malraux
March 10, 2015, 10:20:58 PM EDT
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Post #399,890
3/10/15 10:55:51 PM
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awesome. Usually I skype into meetings with mic muted. Didnt think about it
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Post #399,891
3/10/15 11:03:09 PM
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Ringtone from CTU (24)
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Post #399,892
3/10/15 11:23:05 PM
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A generic phone ring.
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Post #399,910
3/11/15 2:08:30 PM
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Ditto
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897
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Post #399,893
3/10/15 11:34:06 PM
3/10/15 11:38:27 PM
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The guy in the next office over used the "quack quack" noise. Drove me nuts...
I almost always have my phone on vibrate - I couldn't tell you what the ringtone is without looking... It's called "Themos" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaL76UdK-hM (0:21) A friend had the ancient dial telephone ringer as his ringtone - maybe the same as AG? That gets your attention, too. :-) Cheers, Scott.
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Post #399,902
3/11/15 9:27:23 AM
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A woman at a job a few ago used "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"
A crappy, crackly copy of it. More than one time she was lucky she came back to her desk in time to prevent that thing from getting silenced the hard way.
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #399,930
3/11/15 9:52:26 PM
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Ugh. Colleagues and phones.
Had a colleague a few jobs ago who routinely left his mobile phone on his desk. And his ringtone was an annoying Coldplay song. He got complained to multiple times about it and often got annoyed about the topic, but still kept leaving it behind. And then got even more annoyed when we'd silence it on him (because we touched his stuff!). Several times he was lucky it wasn't simply thrown out the window.
Wade.
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Post #399,895
3/10/15 11:56:24 PM
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I like a bright brassy ringtone, too.
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Post #399,897
3/11/15 2:37:45 AM
3/11/15 2:38:52 AM
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This
Like Scott, my phone's on vibrate pretty much all the time at work, but when it isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Nzs1bBTeY&t=129Aside: every single ringtone, alarm tone and alert tone that ships with Google Android (i.e. on my Nexus 5) is absolute crap.
Edited by pwhysall
March 11, 2015, 02:38:52 AM EDT
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Post #399,899
3/11/15 6:59:24 AM
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Hey that's cool!
I wouldn't have it as a ringtone, but I might like that to program to.
I have to say I do like having a unique ringtone. And yeah, all the Android ones are crap.
Wade.
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Post #399,903
3/11/15 11:02:08 AM
3/11/15 11:02:34 AM
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nice
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Edited by boxley
March 11, 2015, 11:02:34 AM EDT
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Post #399,898
3/11/15 2:41:24 AM
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Low Rider, eh?
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Post #399,904
3/11/15 11:03:51 AM
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obviously they didnt get it :-)
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Post #399,905
3/11/15 11:03:51 AM
3/11/15 11:04:30 AM
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ignore dupe
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Edited by boxley
March 11, 2015, 11:04:30 AM EDT
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Post #399,906
3/11/15 11:43:51 AM
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Followed a link ... and another one ...
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Post #399,900
3/11/15 7:41:09 AM
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Time off Dark Side of the Moon
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Post #399,901
3/11/15 9:13:10 AM
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Generic and some custom rings.
1) Mom: Stewie Griffin "Mom. Momma. Ma-Ma. Mommy..." 2) Youngest Daughter: Dr. Who theme (she's a HUGE fan) 3) Oldest Daughter: Pinky and the Brain theme (set when her old boyfriend was an idiot and never changed) 4) Spouse: (if she sees or hears this I'm dead) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kiXh8YOzk
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Post #399,915
3/11/15 3:07:11 PM
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Were I grudgingly-tethered to one of these infernal machines
I'd go with your youngest daughter's obviously superior intelligence and taste :-) (with an Alt-mode--for those inevitable-Days under the new Dictat--when important matters are fubar-ed by Deciders who are Certifiable:) Beethoven's or Chopin's versions of funereal events, in that effective minor-Key.
Subtul Plebiscite note: ..should the "Set of Two" happen to go viral, then on such legislated Days of cyanided-Wine and Deadly Nightshade bouquets, every meeting (etc) being interrupted by millions of fones, playing funereal dirges--the fact of that going also viral--well, that's the kind of clusterfuck signal that the whole range of Murican-IQs can grok to Fullness, innit?
Make it So! O' Masters of extremely-Artificial Intelligence
We proles, who would be flummoxed unto smashing keyboards by the kinky-logic of dastardly php programming ... are Root-ing fer ya! (Start on the fones of the Repo-illiterates, who are least likely to find out how you Locked their ring-tone for all paternity..)
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Post #399,916
3/11/15 3:16:17 PM
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If I used songs for ringers...
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #399,922
3/11/15 4:56:55 PM
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I quite second that reaction to them.. also too.
A perspicuous selection there, given the caveats: aka unlikely to implement. But what-if? opens lots of doors. [Do ANY of these people ever have it register.. that, the MIC is quote sensitive? you need not CHATTER-endlessly, at ROOM-filling excess to decide between the Frito-Lay or Cheez-whizzers..] Then realized there is an abundance of Composers from whom similar passages {of angst} !? might be extirpated. I hadn't realized (my ignorance is large) of--even back to Medeival--the immortality of such a catalogued list of just the Composers of the catchy-tunes, with & without accompaniment. (Though am aware of the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra of Gliere; a fav, my LP is called, Russian Jewels with Joan Sutherland's magnificent solo performance. No words/pick one phrase? cerebral-ringtone.) But for my ears, as unwilling bystander of these silence-eaters: Bix Beiderbecke's In a Mist and others of his utterly 'clean' performances eclipse all the distilled-antsiness of the usual ones. (BTW, as your tastes seem catholic-small-c:) I was once gifted with an amazing album via a lass who ran off to marry a musician of maybe, the Cincinnati O. Who Shall Rule this American Nation Nonesuch H-71317 "Songs of the Civil War Era by Henry Clay Work": the fine pianist William Bolcom and singers. Dunno if it's pure unobtainium or reissued, but When the Evening Star Went Down /1866 song about a sinking.. can match any of the Greats for pathos. Some passages even on a fone, I wot. If one did that sort of thing.
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Post #399,932
3/11/15 10:31:35 PM
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Somewhat off-topic
But I have never seen Peer Gynt performed live. One of my bucket list items, to be sure.
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #399,936
3/12/15 1:28:51 AM
3/12/15 1:56:06 AM
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Here's your chance!
..if Minnesota isn't too long a jaunt. Hey.. that's what Vroomy German cars are made for, no? :-þ Peer Gynt is arrogant, manipulative and dishonest, yet we can't take our eyes off him. Henrik Ibsen's timeless and rarely-produced masterpiece, with a newly commissioned translation by prolific poet and Minnesota native Robert Bly, captures the misadventures of its charismatic central character in a bold, raucous and satirically funny journey to find his place in the world. He's quite the Model for the dis-USA, but with style.. PS (by happenstance) if you want to see Hungary's reincarnation of Sarasáte, and a violin played at 0.98 Light-speed, catch a PBS fund-raiser flic, Zoltan Maga: From Budapest with Love. A good pair with the Rach. 2 young German(?) pianist of some moons back ... when one needs a dose of allegro vivace..
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March 12, 2015, 01:56:06 AM EDT
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