Wanted: Beekeeper - $20,000.00 For 10 Days Part-Time Work

[eri]

Not sure where to post this, but here goes. It is copied without apology from another forum. The link to the thread is here: http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?p=333970#post333970

I'm thinking some of you crazy -er - adventurous, fun-loving souls at BIBF just might apply

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Not kidding around here one little bit.

A producer at ABC TV has asked our help in
finding a beekeeper that would meet the
following criteria:

1) Married
2) One or more kids still living at home
3) Willing to be on "Reality TV"
4) One parent able to travel for 10 days

The TV Program is called "Wife Swap", which we
are told has been aired for several years, and
does not involve anything untoward, in spite
of what the name might imply.

We are told that the participating family will
be paid a base amount of $20,000.00 and has a
chance of winning an additional bonus of $50,000.00

Please contact us rather than ABC, as we have been
asked to put you directly in contact with the
producer for an interview.

Name, phone number, address, and e-mail is all
we need at this point. They don't seem to care
if the beekeeping operation is large or small,
but please define your operation size in terms
of number of hives.


Thanks!


joanne thomas and jim fischer
bee-quick@bee-quick.com

[kathyp]

that show makes me crazy.  i think one of the requirements is that you have to be some kind of loon.  even so, if i met the criteria, i'd do it for the money

i figure i'd have a good go at whipping someone elses husband into shape.   

[Jerrymac]

Hey! I meet the criteria..... Oh yeah forgot,  I wouldn't want to be on TV 

[bassman1977]

No kids and some sanity left so I couldn't be beaten to death by someone else's wife.  I'm out.   

[Frantz]

I have an idea, lets just do this with in our forum. I will trade my wife for one of your wives for 10 days. And lets just keep touch and see how it goes. We could do live chats to compare and stuff. Would be great. Speaking of being whipped into shape... I accept the challenge Kathy.
Sign me up.
F

[K-R-Farms]

I have never heard of it.

How real is this?

[johnnybigfish]

I believe it!
 I bet I didnt tell you guys about me getting an Email from the producer of the show, did I?
Well,...Some of you remember awhile back when I was "Trippin' out" on 2012,( the year, mayan calendar, hopi prophecies, etc.) right?
 Anyways, I went to a few 2012 forums and websites back then...I "Bailed out" after figuring out that most of these people were freakin' NUTS,( I mean weirder than me, in some peoples opinion) probably way before the 2012 issue started!
 So, just recently I got an invite for me and my family to be interviewed for the show   I was to be the 2012 nut and I was to switch wives with someone else whos wife thinks the 2012 thing is nothing.
Janelle and I kicked it around for awhile----(5 minutes, maybe..)...We decided against it..Janelle thought I might give them "More show than they could handle"
I figure that the producers people went to these sites and picked a bunch of people to interview.
.....Yeh, Kathy,..... "Loons!"
 Hey Frantz....(As I peek over my shoulder)....Got any pictures of your wife?
heh heh heh....

your friend,
john

[kathyp]

frantz...can you say "boot camp"?   

problem is, they probably edit out all the really good stuff.

[jimmy]

The wife swap thingy is not what the name implies .I know a lady about 50 miles away who did the show twice. That's the only times I watched it . She got like 50 grand. There was large write up in the local paper. I would post her name but, her daughter just got killed in a auto accident not long ago. I'm sure she is still grieving.
In answer to your question I don't qualify. But I sure could use the money to pay my bee stuff bill  !!!!

[rast]

 HMNNN, maybe I can borrow a niece or nephew to live here.

[Wes Sapp]

I will trade my wife for one of your wives for 10 days.

Hey Frantz, I know some of ya'll out there in Utah have several wifes, but I only have one that you could choose from.

[Jerrymac]

Hey Frantz, I know some of ya'll out there in Utah have several wifes, but I only have one that you could choose from.

No that is here in Texas. Don't you read the news?

[Wes Sapp]

That's right I forgot about that, but from what I saw on the news, I wouldn't trade my wife for two of them!!

[JP]

frantz...can you say "boot camp"?   

problem is, they probably edit out all the really good stuff.

Man Kathy, I would love to see you whip Frantz into shape, I'd vote you and he in, in a second!!!

Johnny, you need to be on that show, that would be the grits!!

...JP

[timdalyiii]

That show aggravates me.  My wife makes me crazy and I lover her with everything I got.  10 days with someone else's wife would be enough to make me pick up a full brood box and wear it like a hat.

[Scadsobees]

i figure i'd have a good go at whipping someone elses husband into shape.   

They always swap polar opposites.

The problem is that only works for the first 5 days.  Then the second day you've got to eat crow and let some spineless birkenstock wearing granola eating hippy tell you how you should be living.  It'd only work if you don't mind wearing tye-dye and headbands sitting around the circle singing we shall overcome while the kids are out back swearing and wrecking stuff cuz they never had a punishment in their life.  It would be amusing watching Kathy enduring that!

But other than that I don't have any biases against that show.

[eri]

OMG - better burn my birks, give the granola to the geese and hurry out back to browbeat the little brats 

[Frantz]

I never get to watch the show, never really watch tv. To much work and no time to sit on the couch and do whatever it is you do when you are on the couch.
The only time I caught a glimpse of the show was a carnival family and a NY snob family switching wives. Just the title was funny. The parts I saw were too much drama.... I have enough drama in my life. My oldest (a Girl) is about to turn 14 in a couple of months, we just moved into the new house, and the two younger ones just found out they have to wear uniforms to school this year. HeHeHe... Like I said too much drama.
Kathy, I think I could hang... Of course us guys always think we can hang right. I bet I would have *^$& of a time keeping up with you.. my hats off to you and what you do.
John, I would have a hard time deciding which wife to send.... #3 or #4. Maybe I could send both and get a package deal kinda thing.   What ya got to offer, I could use a good tractor for a while...
Like I said before, I think that we should do it with in the forum. And create a web show out of it. We would all be rich and famous. Right!!! These things always turn out how you expect right???
Ok, enough on this thread, I am going to get hammer'd by someone here pretty quick.
take care all, and hang on to that one you love!!!!

[marliah]

man, you couldn't pay me enough for that job....those reality shows irritate the **** out of me.

[Steve M.]

We are a TV-free household, but I happened to see a glimpse of this show once while visiting my parents.  I couldn't believe how ridiculous it was....reaffirms why we have chosen to remove the television from our home.

Less TV means more time for more important things like spending time with the kids tending the hive!

--Steve