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  • The confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a mobile phone rings and no one is sure if it is his/hers; from Barbara Wallraff's Word Fugitives

    July 2, 2008

  • I solved this problem by using 96 Tears for my ringtone.

    July 2, 2008

  • I don't think this happens so much anymore, since music-as-ringtones became the norm.

    As for me, mine alternates between The Mysterious Ticking Noise and Word Disassociation both of which are fairly distinctive, so it definitely doesn't happen ot me.

    July 2, 2008

  • Snape. Snape. Se-ve-rus Snape.

    Dumbledore!

    July 2, 2008