Like reality TV… but on a blog

05Jan09

Ages ago, I was discussing an idea for a series of blog posts with Molly and Clink. (Though mostly Molly, I think.)

You remember that reality show “Farmer Wants a Wife?”

Probably not, eh?  I think it’s ratings were somewhere between “Dirty, Sexy Money” and an hour-long infomercial for the ShamWow.  “You know that Germans always make good stuff.”

Well, a farmer dude in the Midwest someplace was looking for a wife, so the good people of the CW shipped in a boatload of skirts from around the U.S. in an effort to help him find true love.  Or something like that.  Many of them were culture shocked.  “He, like, lives on a farm.”  Dude ended up picking a Britney Spears clone (though possibly more immature and less bright) and booted a cute (though vulgar and drunken) brunette from Chicago too early.

It was beautiful.

Soooooo, this new blog game is called…

BLOGGER WANTS A WIFE.

(“Wants” is entirely too strong a word.)

(And “Blogger” probably won’t marry the winner.  Or meet her.  Or even remember her name a week later.)

Excited?  Here is how it works:

1) Female bloggers e-mail me at peterdewolf(at)gmail.com and say something like, “Hey, I am completely bored…”

2) List of competitors is announced.  (Unless I get, like, two people, and then this post you are currently reading mysteriously vanishes.)

3) Weekly “competitions.”  (This will require VERY little effort.)

4) Readers vote.  And then I boot one of the bottom two competitors.

5) Eventually a “winner” is announced.

6) ???
7) Profit.

Before you get all “You think that YOU are a prize?”

The answer to that is clear…

YES!

But that is not the point.  This is all for funsies.

(Please note:  It is entirely probable that this is one of those things that I come up with, and post, and then realize it is just a terrible idea.  And possibly offensive to women… and reality shows… and Germans.)

(Please also note:  I won’t boot cute brunettes for being vulgar drunks.)

(Just note:  Olympic divers use the ShamWow during competitions!)

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