More on the "geek humor" thing.

[prog]

OK, look:

Your Super Mario ringtone is stupid because it's you waving your default cultural nerdier-than-thou penis around for everyone to admire.

My monster-encounter-music-from-Dragon-Warrior ringtone is way better not just because it is significantly more obscure, but it actually makes sense in the context of an incoming phone call. It is a reasonable attempt at cleverness that makes me smile once in a while, versus me standing up and shouting HEY GUYS I LIKE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AND PAC-MAN every time someone calls me. Which yours is.

Maybe what I really have a problem with is the overuse of empty tribal markers with no attempt to get under them. Mm.

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[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew what my ringtone -was-. I know it must be part of some popular (or semi-popular) song, because it just has that sound to it. I picked it because it was the least offensive of the pre-installed tones. And I thought even I would get tired of the rooster crowing ringtone, nifty as it was to play a couple times.

What I really want is a RINGtone. You know, like a phone ringing? Or chimes, or a subdued trilling. Why is that so hard to get?

I like the idea of ominous music playing as a ringtone, though. Yes. That's appropriate.

And "empty tribal markers" - hmm. I think that maybe expresses something I find intolerable about the so-called geek crowd, but haven't been able to fully figure out.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

My old roommate worked at MIT network operations, and he had the campus police programmed to ring in as the "Dragnet" theme. Baaaam-ba-ba-BAH! There's trouble! Perfect.

His girlfriend, though, rang in with "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", which I found more than a little cloying...