While going through old boxes of stuff, I came across these messy fun newsletters. Didn't even know I still had these.

Wow. There's a blast from the past.

What's great is that they feature three of my all-time favourite MessyFun photos!

- Shaun in paint
- Daizy in cake batter
- Carolyn in the clay pit

Thanks for sharing!

Man this takes me back! Right about then I got access to the internet for the first time and the very first website I went to was Messyfun.com

PSA: If you are old enough to remember these newsletters, it's time to book your colonoscopy.

Wow, thanks for posting these.

I have a dozen or so issues somewhere, and I'd like to find them because Rob pretty much launched MPV - back in 1994. I was starting up the BBS and he was kind enough to promote it in at least one issue of Messy News.

I remember in 95 or 96 he commented that you'd just been beaten to mpv.com by someone called "Multi Purpose Ventures". He talked about you a fair bit in discussions of mud. I used to have lots of issues of Messy News, seems like another world now!

Here are some PDF scans I did of ones I came across in some of my old stuff a few years back.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3Ne8HBWS48DYydy_HbswVbT6jkc4rah?usp=sharing

You have very good recall. 'Multipurpose Ventures' was one. Then there was 'Medical Present Value'. I stopped trying after that. But then, domains are much less important nowadays.

Did you run into Rob in a discussion environment, or meet up with him?

Only ever on-line I'm afraid, met him on Compuserve in 1995. That lightbulb moment of realising I wasn't the only person on the planet who though that fully clothed women getting messy were sexy, it was like an entire lighthouse lamp coming on. We used to chat a lot in email, he really was an incredibly nice guy. I'd always fancied the idea of hiring people to shoot clothed messy video, even when I thought I'd be the sole audience, and he encouraged me with it once I knew there'd be a market. Shame he didn't live to see what came of that, I think he'd have liked at least some of what I've shot since, and I'm sure he'd have loved to know that almost without exception, every single girl I've introduced to fully clothed mud has absolutely loved it.

I definitely remember reading every one of these. Had a PO Box just for my WAM VHS deliveries and MessyFun newsletters.

Kudos to the girls whose faces were blurred as they didn't want to be recognized on the Internet... Impressive level of foresight there.

500 CD-Rs of storage. The mind boggles.
I was just having a convo tonight about Doodmon's short-lived YahooGroup. We're all old.