"Online customers have downloaded a half a million of Sir Mix-A-Lot's tones.

At about a quarter a pop for each download, he stands to make some money. "


Or he's made about $125,000.

That'll buy a few buttermilk biscuits.

I LOOOVE all the ringtones

/rips ears off

Man, people are dumb. Get a phone that can hook up to your computer, or just sign up with 3G upload. I paid, I think, $3 for all the ringtones I could ever want or use, including my own.

And what one person on the face of the American continents doesn't already know this?

Dear God,
Please make all cell phones that play these annoying ringtones in public, explode burning the faces of the obnoxious bastards that use them.
Your Pal,
SubCow

P.S. It really is a pretty pathetic cry for attention. It is bad enough that people leave their ringers on in public, especially on mass transit. It is even worse when you have to listen to a whole f'ing song. "Look at me! Look at me! someone wants to talk to me! My phone plays music! Now I am going to be rude and yell into the phone for 10 minutes with complete disregard for everything else in the world. Hold on! I'm getting in my car now. It's illegal to drive in New York and talk on the phone without a hands-free kit, but I don't care, and I don't care if I can't use my turn signal because I am holding my phone, and I don't care if I drift into your lane, because my conversation about my 6:30 appointment at the nail salon is the most important thing in the world, and it doesn't matter if I crash, because I am driving an SUV and you can't get hurt driving one of those."

Die please now.

I hated nost cheesy ringtones until I downloaded my current one: "THEME FROM CHiPS" -- for some reason this is eternally amusing to me. I am lame and lovin' it!

hope he makes enough scratch to move out of Queen Mix-A-Lot's basement

I hate that farking Jamster commercial!!

Will there be a Sir Mix-a-lot trifecta today?

My phone plays Yackety Sax (Benny Hill theme song). I did that one because it's unique. I always know it is my phone ringing, and not someone elses.

Was this submitted with a Cool tag because of the lack of an Annoying tag?

I guess all those ringtones come in handy when he's taking calls at 1-800-MIX-A-LOT.

jaymzz: Will there be a Sir Mix-a-lot trifecta today?

Fingers crossed!

SoCalChris

Thats the problem, everyone thinks it makes them unique, but it just make you look like an attention whore. But I guess on the left coast, that's the norm. Here's an idea, how bout the song, Landslide by Stevie Nicks. LOL.

Wow, are the personals people getting stranger every day?
Ouch!

/end threadjack

I bet these days that when Kid Sensation drops a 20, he misses it.

/shiat, forgot the sarcasim tag, sorry Chris

I'm with Verizon. Where could I get some free ringtones? I like the classical music stuff.

I was in class the other day and I started to hear a chicken. I thought I was going crazy but it was someone's phone. The whole class when crazy with laughter :)

SoCalChris

My phone plays Yackety Sax (Benny Hill theme song). I did that one because it's unique. I always know it is my phone ringing, and not someone elses.

You say that now, but wait until Puff Daddy remixes it.

My phone goes Ring Ring. Not a ringing noise, but the word 'Ring' being shouted out by that awful Microsoft Sam voice. It's existential, in a post-modern kind of way that transcends the stereotypical and exists in the realms of the archetypal, while also highlighting the subjugation of I have no farking clue what I'm talking about here.

Sadly enough, Sir M's "Pick Up Ya Phone (Baby Got Back '05)" is by far the least annoying ringtone currently offered for sale.

/reedledeedledeendeendeendeen, WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Judging by this recent auction , there is much more money in other places. Everything is big business

Mixalot has been doing very well for the last 10 years...

He doesnt run an electrical repair shop... he creates some of the best RF amplifiers out there. Some of them go for thousands of dollars.


He didnt go out like Hammer thats for sure.... and he is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet,

While I usually hate all the annoying pop music junk, I agree with SoCalChris that I wanted something unique to identify my phone..

I went with Monty Python's "Sit on my Face". Most people seem to know the tune, but hardly anyone knows where it came from. It is funny to see the look on people's face who recognize it.

Bwahahahah

Baby Got Phone

"Put 'em on the glass!"

/obvious

my anaconda dont want none unless you ... .... ...!

People with fones love to irritate passers-by, and passers-by love to punch said people in the face.

/In their pants

My phone plays "Bittersweet Symphony" when my hubby calls. It is THE ONLY ringtone, polyphonic or otherwise, that I've heard that sounds like the actual song. I like that in a ringtone. My general ring is "Walking on the Sun", cause it also sounds very much like the actual song. I'd rather have a ringtone that sounds good for a song I like than a ringtone that sounds like crap for a song that I love.

I should plug my ringtone company, here but I won't :)

Most people do get the tones to differetiate their ring for all the others out there. My phone plays the theme to Super Mario Bros. right now, but I get to change it all the time.

disgruntella
I hated nost cheesy ringtones until I downloaded my current one: "THEME FROM CHiPS" -- for some reason this is eternally amusing to me. I am lame and lovin' it!

The A-team theme rocks, and yes I will let the entire song play, but just to annoy my friends who hate it.

My phone plays the theme to an old UK game show (The Crystal Maze, for those Brits out there) and I don't believe I've ever payed money for the privalige of personalising my handset. Custom made items are the only way to be.

Of course, being the tech whore that I am, my phone also has DOOM, Monkey Island 1 & 2, Day of The Tentacle, a host of emulators (MAME, NES, Gameboy and Genesis) and clones of various other games like Tempest, tetris and minesweeper.

Owning a phone just to make calls on? How quaint!

Supertramp's been making money off that "Give A Little Bit" song that Old Navy used and was recently covered by someone.

It was cool back then, but damn...kill it already!

Did I say Old Navy? I think it was The Gap.

/overthinking again

ahaze [TotalFark]

My phone plays "Bittersweet Symphony" when my hubby calls. It is THE ONLY ringtone, bla bla bla bla bla

Your phone should be a PHONE and RING. Strangulation is in the mind of everyone around you when your polyphonic self-masturbation goes off. Don't forget it.

/doing you a service by letting you know what everyone else is struggling to stop from saying

mix-a-lot has been doing good. Not just with the RF amps. I think he was/is producing stuff too.

My phone plays one of the standard ring tones; I know it's mine because it's in my damn pocket. Are people really having that problem? Morans the whole lot of em.

/doesn't give a shiat about ring tones

I don't own a cell phone. I almost got one but then this scenario entered my head:

*Phone rings while I'm at the strip club*

KA: Hello.
Wife: Hey, what's ya doing?
KA: Nothin'.
Wife: Where are you?
KA: At the library.
Wife: Sure you are. Why don't you take a picture with your phone to prove it.
KA: Uhh..(wadding paper next to the phone), I think I'm losing you....

I HATE THAT FARKING COMMERCIAL

i hope he dies

Too bad it's not Richard Cheese and Lounge Against The Machine's verison of "Baby Got Back" - THAT's the shiznet.

bakatare:

Your phone should be a PHONE and RING. Strangulation is in the mind of everyone around you when your polyphonic self-masturbation goes off. Don't forget it.

Wow, you certainly are an angry little one, aren't you?

"SIR MIX-A-LOT IS BACK!"

fark you Jamster.

Ring tones, yeah I use the one that sounds like an old office phone, boring but I know it is mine and it sound like a phone should.

My brother in law on the other hand has a ring tone that sounds like a cat meowing, which leads to this story.
My brother in law was in South FL helping Ma Bell restring the lines after one of the hurricanes. He and his crew go into a Chinese restaurant for lunch. He is at the inevitable buffet when his cell rings, which is in his pants pocket and he has his hands full of plates so he does not answer it. The ring tone is, meow. He has his back to the kitchen doors as he is cruising the buffet and his phone is meowing on ascending volume. He is just about to answer when he notices two of the cooks furiously looking under tables and speaking excitedly in Cantonese. Then his wife who is the one calling him, hangs up. So my brother in law goes back to his table to sit with his crew and eat. The guys were all snickering and the rest of the patrons looked slightly alarmed, as a couple more cooks come out of the kitchen and begin walking around the restaurant trying to appear cool as they are searching for the cat they all clearly heard. At this time, my brother in laws wife calls back. In his words, pande-freaken-monium , four cooks complete with an assortment of meat preparation tools, and at least a half dozen waiters are crawling around looking for a cat, as were a few customers who feared for the safety of the invisible feline it ever was apprehended. The rest of the patrons at this point looked a little more suspiciously at their rat on a stick and a few were visible green. The lady at the cash register is saying as loudly as possible, "There no cot, no cot in front of restaurant, we have very clean place!" well that was about all that most of the patrons could handle and they were rapidly moving towards the door, but not before my bro-n-laws now angry wife calls back. He lets it ring a few more times and then turned off his phone. This effectively cleared the restaurant of everyone but a few grubby linemen, who by the way all got a free lunch.