Posted on 04/28/2010 9:18:38 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Or, if you're more technologically minded, you could always go for the nostalgia-inducing sounds of a 56k modem trying to connect.
The ringtones are available as part of the BBC World Service's Save Our Sounds project - an effort to get people to record and send in 'endangered sounds' so they can be preserved for posterity. We've previously written about the project here (and also mentioned that it's one of nine BBC nominations for the Webby Awards.) The sound of the laughing hippo - which was recorded in the Serengeti - can best be described as a combination of the Count from Sesame Street and a very large motorbike revving up.
Other ringtones available include a cable car bell from San Francisco, some screeching kookaburras from Australia, and the 'wolf whistle bird' from Ecuador.
It’s laughing at your misery.
Have you used “Give Me Three Steps” yet?
Not yet. But I am using "Whiskey Rock-a-Roller" as the ring tone for a drinkin' buddy.
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