On ringtones and the perceptions they create

They say you can learn a lot about someone by the ringtones they assign to those lucky enough to make it into their address books. Damn straight. I've been taking a bit of mental inventory into what songs/movie quotes/sound effects/bits of sensory accoutrement with which people use to associate me. And I'm now almost wishing I hadn't.

These days it's easy to get a ton of cool tones - RealTone, polyphonic, MIDI or otherwise. Download 'em, Bluetooth your faves, or rip your own. It's the underlying message that I find to be a trip. Friends of mine - good friends for that matter - have been nice enough to link me with everything from "The World At Home" (my newscast's TV theme song (obvious)), Bugs Bunny soundbytes...or The B-52's "Rock Lobster" or Janet Jackson's "Pleasure Principle" (huh?). I've yet to find the semantic match for some of the weirder ones, other than it being an arbitrary and moderately humorous selection. It's funny.

So I shudder to ask...how do you people come up with this stuff? As for where I might stand in your address book, audibly speaking, if it' s OK with you, don't get too creative - I'll be happy with the default "Canon in D".