came 6 shiny limousines bedecked with flags.
· Thursday, 11.20pm, BBC2 Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole In My Heart Shop till you drop?
Huge yellow sheaves of tobacco are hung to cure in 15 shiny sheds by a new blocklong warehouse.
Okay, it's not Shakespeare but then the Bard wasn't a 28kg shiny box of circuits and sensors gliding around on wheels.
On parade are about 75 shiny examples of wildly whimsical, flamboyant and fanciful American brasswares: tables, lamps, chandeliers, firedogs, clocks, even doorknobs.
Of course, if the narrative distracts, then you can just bliss out on the 150 shiny objects that span three centuries.
The salt sits alongside mounds of red chilli peppers, natural sea sponges and 400,000 shiny copper coins, borrowed from the Paris mint.
SPUCK BENNETT'S dealership just outside Ocean City, Md., is cluttered with 65 shiny Harley-Davidson motorcycles, including the chrome Sportster and the sleek V-Rod.
We waited and waited, shaking hands with various people, slouching further and further down on the plastic chairs, the music skipping on, until finally, at about 3pm, 15 shiny 4x4s zoomed from nowhere on to the field.
When disgruntled mill workers seized the factory buildings in 1977, they discovered a remarkable site: 600 shiny automobiles, including 122 Bugattis, three restaurants and 845 reproduction Venetian bridge lamps sparkling from the roof pillars.
