This is what you hear when you call me:

I looked all over, all I found was a phone number on the stairs
It said, Thank U 4 a funky time
Call me up whenever U wanna grind

My parents would be like "WTF!?"

ThreadCula said:

I live in Germany so nobody will understand anyway

Otherwise I work for an english company and get phone calls from England every now and then...

ThreadCula said:

My Dad would just laugh at me

My Mom doesn't even know who I am

I used to have the first few opening bars of 'Hello' on my machine..

Mach said:

Ditto...

When I had the theme from the X-Files on my voicemail, my dad was like, "WTH? I thought I'd called some weirdo Trekkie." He doesn't know the difference.

My mom hasn't called for 15 years, but if she does ever call my cell, I have the theme from The Exorcist as my ringtone. She'll hang up with the quickness.
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noimageatall said:

I keep my Mom 5-6 days a week for 3-5 hr periods - to give my Dad a break

mine is the part in UTCM when Mrs. Wellington's answering machine goes

"you know who you've dialed. she's not home. do you want to leave a message?"

haha

Mach said:

All the more when you have a mother who does know you and chooses not to.

noimageatall said:

We're threadjacking now ... anyway

Our older children's Biounit ( mom ? ) lived 10 minutes from us/them - and for 2 + yrs she never visited or called them and then she did once ... then 2 more yrs went by wothout a word

people are strange

Mach said:

Maybe we should use that Doors song? Or Princes' How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?

I wanted the first part of "Let's go crazy" to play right before I walked down to isle. I wanted him to introduce the greatest entrance of my life -just imagine the voice saying "Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here to get through this thing called life"... It was just too much thought for me at the time and I decided to leave it out b/c my singer's voice was just too deep and he doesn't sing any Prince songs b/c of it...he was an apollo winner a few years back. I was supposed to walk down to Adore but opted to put that song at the reception as we cut our cake. I was crying when we cut it though.

Funny but true story:

Back when the "Diamonds and Pearls" CD first came out, I had the following on my answering machine (from the song "Daddy Pop"):

(Ring di di ding) comebody's calling
"The jester's on the phone!"
Oh yeah?
Rosie tell him I ain't home
He just one in a long line that wanna see me! Daddy Pop

My mom called me once, and hung up as soon as she heard the message. When I called her back, she asked me what the heck it was that was on my answering machine. I told her, "That's Prince". My mom said something like, "Well, I don't like it, it sounds ridiculous". Leave it to your mom to tell it exactly like it is, whether you want to hear it or not.

I've always thought that the beginning part of the song "Hello" would be cool to put on your answering machine.

SaraWright10 said:

Oh, I like that!

xenon said:

that already sounds like a ringtone anyway.

xenon said:

I used to set it as an alarm clock in the morning!

A couple yrs back on my cell's voicemail I had "Hey, this is Tiff and I know because I didn't answer my phone you're thinking oooOOOooooh" The ooOOoooh would play from the begining of Musicology and it sounded so hot because it came in perfectly. My sister said once she heard the oooooh part she thought to herself "Oh snap, Tiff sounds JUST LIKE Prince!"

KidaDynamite said:

I used to have the music to a Dutch children's radioprogram on my answering machine. Sounded really cheerful.

xenon said:

thats pretty cute!

I used to have the guitar riff from Kiss play at the beginning of mine, before I started my current job

xenon said:

omg.

xenon said:

Me too!

Mach said:

Missy

you must not have work or professionals calling the house, cell, etc. for interviews, sales calls, or anything related to work.

I always found that a turn off when calling intern candidates and it was something like that; a song, goofy greeting, etc. There have been waaaay worse. But those interns didn't get a message from me. I hung up and moved on. Obviously they weren't ready for the professional world.

And the ring tones. I keep them to a jazzy instrumental. Pop that coochie would not be a good choice.

wow...i gotta lay off the coffee.

KatSkrizzle said:

I really need to change my message, since my business is at home, and rarely does anyone call for personal reasons

ZombieKitten said:

i gotta change my ring back tone