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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (290289)	7/3/2004 1:09:21 AM
From: Tom Swift	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Mud from Rainy Rock Music Festival Sells for $890 Fri Jul 2,11:03 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! LONDON (Reuters) - A dollop of mud scooped up during last weekend's Glastonbury music festival in Britain has sold for 490 pounds ($890) on the Internet auction site Ebay. The sale should recoup the cost of the admission ticket, and more than compensate for the heavy rain. "Stored in a plastic bag this should arrive nice and damp with the early Glastonbury dew still soaking into it," reads the seller's description. The mud was collected from the front of the main Pyramid stage where Oasis, Morrissey and Paul McCartney performed. Bidding began at 99 pence. The Glastonbury festival, which dates back to 1970, has been criticized for becoming over-commercialized in recent years as mobile-phone charging points replace hippie campfires. But the mud's owner has promised to donate half the final auction price to charity. Festival fans can still snap up mud, in some cases with an accompanying rubber Wellington boot, for a few pence on the Web site.