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Comments on: El Reg salutes ultimate shed anthem

Well it's worked on me! 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:31 GMT

Happy

I'm definitely getting a shed from there now!

Made me smile on a Friday! 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:41 GMT

Thumb Up

Well, what else can I say?

no teeth left 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:41 GMT

Stop

Any listeners of the areas local radio station will have heard this a lot already. A LOT.And it gets in your head. GAAAH!!

Oh dear... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:42 GMT

Coat

1) I've been there.

2) I strangely like the ad.

3) Internet Exploder only? BOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Mine's the one with the Hoe in the pocket (no shed at current property)

I live in a flat but... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:52 GMT

Happy

I feel the urge to buy a shed...

It's Friday! 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:52 GMT

Happy

Lester Haines, I salute YOU!

Click here... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 10:55 GMT

Mercifully, I have Flash disabled on all sites by default (thank you, Opera), so suffered no auditory damage.

THAT 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:06 GMT

Alert

IS AWESOME.

Far, far better than most of the adverts I've heard.

The audio comprethion 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:14 GMT

Boffin

Ith a little bit thacrafithial to the thibbylantth.

But... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:22 GMT

... it works on Opera, @AC.

Genius piece of marketing. My next shed will be coming from there now...

Can't be as annoying as the Trade Centre Wales adverts 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:25 GMT

Alert

I think you will be hard pushed to find anything that is more mind-numbingly irritating than the Trade Centre Wales adverts. Each one ends with the tag line, "Tell 'em Trevor sent you!" in a really thick Welsh accent.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=78BE30C70EF85A5D

Fantastic. 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:35 GMT

Coat

Keep my coat, I've got a shed.

Fantastic. 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:35 GMT

Happy

Well thought of..

Hurray something fun ! 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:44 GMT

Makes a change from reading about the latest govt IT disaster of the day...

Jon "Three Sheds" Westbrook 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 11:57 GMT

Coat

Is he by any chance related to Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson?

Brilliant! 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:01 GMT

Thumb Up

Aww, thats made my Friday afternoon.

Just hoping for Playmobil now before I toddle off home...

Is it just me 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:06 GMT

Coat

Or are the BBC running a feature on misheard song lyrics at the moment? Anyone posted this on there yet?

Mine's the one with a shed catalogue in the pocket

asking too much 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:11 GMT

Alert

Flash, Javascript, Internet expoorer; sorry even it was a newly discovered song of one of my favorite dead artists, this is asking too much.

Close enough to sheds.. 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:17 GMT

Flame

I'd suggest the catchy anthem to the 2007 Sauna World Championships - possibly also the inspiration for the Irish Eurovision song contest entry?

http://k-systems.fi/www/saunaheinola.com/intro/

[Flame, for hopefully obvious reasons!]

Coldseal 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:29 GMT

No matter what, Coldseal's awful radio adverts win this award every time...

http://www.221155.co.uk/index.html

I mean, just try these two awful efforts. I has haunted by this crap on local radio in the 90s.

http://www.221155.co.uk/jingles/ComingRoundTheMountain-Bomb.mp3

http://www.221155.co.uk/jingles/TheCanCan.mp3

@radian: living in a shed 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:31 GMT

Thumb Up

Living in a flat is no reason not to buy a shed. I had one to function as my man-cave, a 100% intrusion-free space. This is a simple necessity when sharing a house.

Sometimes called a thinking shed... There's even a company selling 150--200y old reclaimed north-swedish sheds (salty sea air keeps it from rotting, and weathers it beautifully).

If this is the ULTIMATE, then the penultimate shed song frightens me.

Works on Firefox 3 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 12:54 GMT

Happy

And well, cheered me up on a particularly bad Friday.

Being born and bred in Rainham... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 13:31 GMT

Happy

It brings a tear to my eye, something we can be known to the world for instead of a steel company and former gooner Tony Adams.

Almost makes me wish I hadn't emigrated...

Re: Coldseal 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 13:32 GMT

Flame

"I was haunted by this crap on local radio in the 90s."

Me too.

Or should that be: Me (double) too, (double one, double five)?

Burn, Coldseal, burn.

I like it... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 13:41 GMT

Paris Hilton

Most garden sheds here in the US are made of plastic shite. Those look nice..

Paris because... Well, plasticized shite.

deep link 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 14:19 GMT

IT Angle

QuickTime might be able to play it... http://www.rainhamsheds.co.uk/soundfile.swf

Er... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 14:54 GMT

Thumb Down

It's really not that funny. So someone noticed their name sounded a bit like 'raining'. That's not really hilarity central.

Even the Hyundai ad which equally 'hilariously' changed the lyrics to Flash Dance was better than that.

@Damn Yank 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 15:00 GMT

Heart

The Shed shares a place in the British soul along with tea, bisuits and complaining about the weather.

Brilliant 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 15:06 GMT

Happy

Still won't be buying one, just designed and built one from scratch myself AND I AM NOT GOING TO BUILD ANOTHER ONE FOR TEN OR TWENTY YEARS

not that I am not proud of the outcome, this inadvertant outburst was directed to the missus

Better AC this, oops, butterfingers

Ermm 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 15:12 GMT

Paris Hilton

...... i find myself speechless.

Paris, because she knows what sheds are for.

Ahh good old rainham sheds 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 15:18 GMT

Coat

I'd often cut through past their premises on my way to/from the station to work.

I think I should be grateful that this jingle never existed back then or i'd probably be singing it all day every day thanks to the constant reminder as I walked past.

Funnily enough I also just remembered that they suffered from a terrible problem with the drainage outside their office so anything more than a slight downpour and the whole area would flood. quite fitting giving the new jingle

hmmm heres my coat but wheres my brolly?

wait for the RIAA to contact them.... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 15:59 GMT

Pirate

that'll be £300 or a court case for illegally making available copyrighted material then....

Hmm, it is possible to do this lawfully. 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 16:15 GMT

Coat

Let's not jump to conclusions. It is possible to do this lawfully, and it's not unusual.

(Money, that's what I want!)

I wuld have commented sooner, only I was writing a song.

(The Technicolor one with the stylophone in the pocket, please.)

I, for one, 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 18:04 GMT

Boffin

welcome our new Rainham shed tune-writing overlords.

RE: I like it... 

Posted Friday 22nd August 2008 20:26 GMT

Joke

Yes, but whoever invented plastic poop is a millionaire now!

can only hope 

Posted Saturday 23rd August 2008 01:14 GMT

... that they bought the rights to the tune, or they'll have a lawsuit for umpteen squiglion in "damages" to pay off by next week. Because we all know how popular it all is, don't we?

Ugh 

Posted Saturday 23rd August 2008 22:07 GMT

Unhappy

Where's my puke bucket?

At least Rainham seems to make a good product ... 

Posted Sunday 24th August 2008 02:44 GMT

Thumb Up

... having advert jingles stick in the head is bad enough, but when the product advertised is pure shite it's just adding insult to injury.

WTF? 

Posted Monday 25th August 2008 05:56 GMT

Flame

Those aren't sheds! They're pathetic wooden boxes.

These are sheds: http://www.ranbuild.com.au/

A shed isn't really a shed unless it's made from metal.

Did they _really_ come up with that themselves... 

Posted Tuesday 26th August 2008 12:58 GMT

Go

...or did they cadge an outtake from "The Who Sell Out"?

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