a haulage company and a smiiiiiile.....

Does anyone else, when they see one of those orange Hapag-Lloyd containers go past on the back of a truck, instinctively start humming the theme to the Harold Lloyd shows from the 1970s and 1980s? You know: Hooray for Hapag-Lloyd, doo doo doo doo doo doo be doo doo, Hapag-Lloyd........no? Just me then. If you've forgotten how the tune went, there's a link to a sound file here.


These of course are the inanely voiced-over and generally ruined versions of the original classic silent films, which Lloyd's Wikipedia page describes as "poorly presented, with intrusive narration", which is fairly mild, really, as it was a constant series of "what's crazy old Harold up to now? Hey, mind that girder, Harold! Boy, that was a close one!" done in a "zany" hyperactive stylee that made your brain bleed after a while. DVD releases have been packaged a bit more sensitively, I think, which is good, as the films themselves are actually quite funny (classics like Safety Last! - the one with the clock - in particular), unlike the work of certain big-shoed umbrella wranglers I could mention.