Occupational ringtones
So, I’m loving my new Treo 650 and, via the magic of the Ringo Pro shareware program, enjoying using ringtones for my different groups of contacts. (I know, I know, it’s very passé. I’m late.)
Although my regular ringtone is the instrumental portion of LL Cool J’s“Going Back to Cali” before he begins rapping, my news contacts cause my phone to ring with the Eagles’ “Dirty Laundry” when they call. (I never said it was particularly clever.)
But lest anyone think I’m unusually dorky (because of this, at least), when I was at a police “event” today (you’ll see what it was in tomorrow’s Daily Press and Tuesday’s Hesperia Star), I heard two separate police officials’ cell phones ring, and each had police/detective show theme songs as their ringtones. (I think they were the Rockford Files and Hill Street Blues, respectively, but they were the plinky MIDI versions and not totally identifiable.)
So it’s not just me.
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This is actually something that I look for ever since I caught my mother (a nurse) with the theme to Scrubs as her ringtone for pages from the hospital. I’ve since discovered a physics professor with “She Blinded me With Science” and a bartender with the Cheers theme, so there are apparently dorks like you everywhere!
By the way, as a fan I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that “Dirty Laundry” is just Henley, not the Eagles. 😉
Comment by Widge — June 19, 2006 @ 8:21
True, but iTunes doesn’t have that version, just one off of a recent live Eagles album, so in this case, it’s an Eagles version.
Man, I wouldn’t know the theme song to Scrubs if it bit me on the ass.
Comment by Beau — June 19, 2006 @ 8:29
Oh, you’re a tricky one aren’t you? I suppose that’s what I get for being a smartypants 😉
The theme song to Scrubs is called “Superman” by Lazlo Bane. It’s a great song (in my opinion) and a shame that the show’s opening sequence is only like 10 seconds long.
Comment by Widge — June 19, 2006 @ 8:53