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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 01:59
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Here's a book Mystic Fred wrote a couple of years back

 
 
 
 
...THIS IS A BEST SELLER!!!  how do you think i can afford to buy obscure cd's like "garden shed"...???LOL
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 03:53
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I was thinking the level of discourse here would be a little higher...I can see that mayn't be the case.


On the contrary - when men get to 'a certain age' priorities change; at the moment, Steve has hit upon a subject many of us find to be of great import - ie, where we store things we will get round to fixing "one day".

I for one will get round to taking a photo of my shed "one day"
    

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 07:23
 Getting round to taking that photo of your shed ... now you have no excuses for not being able to a "round to it" Wink
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 07:25
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I was thinking the level of discourse here would be a little higher...I can see that mayn't be the case.


On the contrary - when men get to 'a certain age' priorities change; at the moment, Steve has hit upon a subject many of us find to be of great import - ie, where we store things we will get round to fixing "one day".

I for one will get round to taking a photo of my shed "one day"
    
I use my shed to store bits of wood which I'm sure will come in handy "one day".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 09:06
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I was thinking the level of discourse here would be a little higher...I can see that mayn't be the case.
    


But sir, this is high level discourse.

I'm actually a little jealous. I rent an apartment, so I can't have a shed. Does my storage locker count?






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 12:36
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I rent an apartment, so I can't have a shed. Does my storage locker count?


Only if it contains at least 2 nearly empty tins of paint (each of which must be at least three years old and of a colour you cannot stand), and a rock which used to be a half used sack of cement until it got damp...


    
    

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 13:20
...and don't forget those bits of wood!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 13:27
I'm in my 30s so I'm caught between the Grey Room and the VL...maybe someone should start a 30-ish room. Maybe not.
    

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 13:36
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I'm in my 30s so I'm caught between the Grey Room and the VL...maybe someone should start a 30-ish room. Maybe not.
    
 
Mmmm, have you got a shed?? Big smile.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 13:51
Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I was thinking the level of discourse here would be a little higher...I can see that mayn't be the case.
    


But sir, this is high level discourse.

I'm actually a little jealous. I rent an apartment, so I can't have a shed. Does my storage locker count?

 
 
 
this will be perfectly valid if you follow these conditions......
 
1)  your locker must be painted green.
 
2)  the door must have a strong padlock, with a key labelled "shed".
 
3)  the aforesaid tins of paint, bits of wood, a garden implement, 1st marriage wedding album - the one your 2nd wife thought you had thrown away  (and other items such as forgotten 70's pop albums and/or 70's porn magazines).
 
4) have "this is my shed - private" painted on the top.
 
 
ps the rock solid bag of cement is an optional item (so's the wedding album if you only had one wife).
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 14:10
Damn, my shed isn't green. Now I'm going to have to paint it.
And get some porno mags to go in it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 14:17
How about "Beware. Guard Dog" sign on the shed, like my father has?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 14:29
All I've got on my shed is a plastic woodpecker that my sons bought me for Fathers Day and a load of marks where some wasp-like things keep eating the door.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 18:42
Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I was thinking the level of discourse here would be a little higher...I can see that mayn't be the case. [IMG]smileys/smiley26.gif" align=middle> [IMG]smileys/smiley36.gif" align=middle>     
But sir, this is high level discourse. [IMG]smileys/smiley2.gif" align=middle> I'm actually a little jealous. I rent an apartment, so I can't have a shed. Does my storage locker count? [IMG]smileys/smiley36.gif" align=middle>

 

 

 

this will be perfectly valid if you follow these conditions......

 

1)  your locker must be painted green.

 

2)  the door must have a strong padlock, with a key labelled "shed".

 

3)  the aforesaid tins of paint, bits of wood, a garden implement, 1st marriage wedding album - the one your 2nd wife thought you had thrown away  (and other items such as forgotten 70's pop albums and/or 70's porn magazines).

 

4) have "this is my shed - private" painted on the top.

 

 

ps the rock solid bag of cement is an optional item (so's the wedding album if you only had one wife).

 

 

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Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure my ex destroyed our wedding photos before the divorce was even final.

I've got the lock, and I'll get to work on the other items.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 22:12
Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I'm in my 30s so I'm caught between the Grey Room and the VL...maybe someone should start a 30-ish room. Maybe not.     

 

Mmmm, have you got a shed?? [IMG]alt="Big smile" src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley4.gif" align=absMiddle>.

 

 


I've got a shack, and a rather small hut...but no shed. I now see my misfortune.
    
    

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 22:27
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I'm in my 30s so I'm caught between the Grey Room and the VL...maybe someone should start a 30-ish room. Maybe not.
    
 
mmm.... not sure myself (almost 30, but feeling older...).
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 30 2006 at 22:45
Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Here's a book Mystic Fred wrote a couple of years back

 
 
 
 
...THIS IS A BEST SELLER!!!  how do you think i can afford to buy obscure cd's like "garden shed"...???LOL
 
 
PS thanks B D !!!Thumbs Up
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
we used to have a metal shed until my mom took it out with an axe and sledge hammer. now we have plastic storage units...they are not sheds. they are because my mom and dad got tired of hiding things under the rotting wood yard sale tables...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2006 at 16:05
A truly english garden shed must be made of wood with a mineralised felt roof.  It must be painted infrequently and the corners of the roof should be beginning to rot.
 
If certain 70's sit-coms are to be believed it should have an exploding still in it as well.Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2006 at 07:54
I wish I'd never mentioned sheds now - let's change the subject. Who thinks Doctor Who now is better than it was in the days of our youth? What do people think of Torchwood?  Is Billie Piper a babe?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2006 at 07:54
Originally posted by Heavyfreight Heavyfreight wrote:

A truly english garden shed must be made of wood with a mineralised felt roof.  It must be painted infrequently and the corners of the roof should be beginning to rot.


As the owner of two sheds, I wonder if you can clarify this for me...

Is the installation of a wasps' nest still compulsory?
    

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