July 10, 2004
Polyphonic spew
Andrew Mueller writing for The Guardian is clearly not a ringtone fan, nor does he think very highly of people who are called when riding the bus : "There is no person more deluded than he or she who has a song programmed into their mobile phone". -- "The reason mobiles have had such a catastrophic effect on workaday manners is that they encourage people to believe that they are so important that nothing they have to say can possibly wait until they're off the bus".
Anyway, he does have a fun anecdote, here:
"It might be grudgingly conceded that there are limited circumstances in which a ringtone could be acknowledged as witty - it is popularly rumoured, for example, that several of William Hague's staff during the 2001 election campaign had their phones implanted with the theme from Mission: Impossible."
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