Whoopie-Cushion Ring tones Big Biz

May 26 2003 - 10:10 AM ET | Unique
What happens when you give kids with a lot of spare time a tech-toy with way too much horse power? Rude ringtones. According to a Wired story, "bodily functions" are hot for ring tones: bq. "After offering various sound effects, it became clear our audience was very young and that a lot of young guys loved ... stuff like bodily functions," said Cindy Lundin Mesaros, a spokeswoman for Faith's Modtones unit, a ring tone provider for Verizon Wireless. They put it near someone and then call it to remotely trigger it. Somehow this doesn't seem like what people had in mind when they designed multiphonic ring tones...