Apparently on date 5 Jun 2005 14:13:39 -0700, said:

>Hi,
>
>Does anyone use spray-on mud, or know anyone else who does?

I'm still flabbergasted at B3ta posting the advert.

Does anyone outside of Islington actually have no way to find mud at a cheaper
price than eight quid a throw?

>I am a journalist researching a story on products like the one at
>http://www.spamonmud.com.

No, I think you'll find you are trying to promote a completely stupid product.
Like spray on dog turds, it's easy enough to smell without buying mail order
faeces, simply by stepping in the droppings.

Ooh, a questionnai

>Have you used such products, or know any stories about people who have?

Well, I've used mud. Generally when cycling through the woods as a child and
walking it into the kitchen, and the like. No specific stories but women tend
to get all upset about it on the carpet or wood block flooring, even today.

>What are the ways in which it can be used and why?

Vietnam Veterans could buy a can of spray-on-mud and smear it on their cheeks,
except it would be too consistent so the random effect of dirt would be lost.

The RAF could spray it onto otherwise green-painted military aircraft to
enhance their camouflage, if they didn't already paint some of them a bit
brown.

>Such products are
>marketed to 4x4 owners looking to give their vehicle an authentic
>just-been-up-the-side-of-a-mountain look, but I have read from some
>people who say they could be used to cover cars' registration plates to
>avoid detection by speed cameras (something the manufacturer of the
>above product says it does not condone and an activity it
>discourages)... Got any stories about either of these uses?

Yeah, I had cack all over my numberplate once and got stopped. Just as well I
wasn't on the way home from a heavy drinking session, I suppose. Luckily the
plate was still readable so they just told me off.

>Ever used spray-on mud yourself to avoid getting nicked or flashed?

Easier just to remove the numberplate. I've got a new product "no plate", which
consists of a foot long piece of gaffer tape. You stretch it over your
numberplate and suddenly are immune to prosecution, it's grate and grate, and
really grate.

Best to use this instead of removing your numberplates. The idea is when the
police come round to take you to prison, you can remove the gaffer tape so that
your family are able to find and sell the car to someone else who won't bother
to tax or insure it either.

>What do you think of spray-on-mud - handy way for busy drivers to get
>4x4 street cred, pointless yuppie posturing, perfect way to evade the
>long arm of the law?

It's a way to get eight quid off people who are too stupid to reach down into
the mud at the side of the road and slap it on for free.

Can't get poor underestimating the gullibility of folk, or so I was told at the
last Labour Tax Conference.

>I'd love to hear from anyone who has used this type of thing or who has
>any anecdotes.

Yeah, I have an anecdote. Some spammer tried to sell what amounts to a handful
of mud for the price of a couple of gallons of petrol, by posting a fake "I'm a
journalist" post to a newsgroup, and hopefully got bad publicity.

And the other anecdote, about how stupid someone would have to be to buy mud,
water or just "dirt" well I would like to add another product to the portfolio
but I guess you're already willing to sell London Bridge to the hapless
punters.

>If you'd rather not be identified, email .

And don't sign up this address to every porn site in the eastern hemisphere,
guys and gals.