~ About The Creators ~
~ The Origins of White Trash Bingo ~
as told by Adam - Co-Conspirator of WTB
I work in the white trash capital of the world. I can’t explain what I see on a day-to-day basis, some of it is just too hard to describe, so my co-workers and I developed a game. We called it White Trash Bingo. Now when I say developed a game, it was an idea that never really went beyond talking and pointing fingers and laughing at our awesome inside joke. Here is what we came up with. We were going to create a game board that was set up just like a bingo card. B I N G O across the top of each column, then five squares down, the middle was the free spot, and away we went. Now the each square of the card was not going to be a number, it was going to have a category of white trash. So, if you saw t-shirt/suspenders combo, you would look at your card, find that in one of your squares, and mark it off. If you saw jean shorts white tube socks and a faded Mega Death t-shirt, you would look for that on your card, and so the game goes. If someone got a bingo, the idea was that the one with the least amount of marks takes the winner to lunch. Now the game board never came to fruition. It was just an idea, but we kept talking about it. We even developed cheater rules, we had to get a picture of the white trash and that was our proof that we indeed did see it. It made the game a little more challenging and fun. We were trying to work and snap photos without the subject knowing we were doing it or letting our customer’s know we were doing it.
Now this idea went from something funny to talk about at work to real life in a matter of a 4th of July weekend. My brother Steve went to a party with his wife and kids. He was bored at the party and decided to entertain himself by doing his usual... crowd watching and suddenly noticed a plethora of White Trash. So he sends me a photo of a dude, with the fryer tuck bald spot.
We have a short text message conversation making fun of this kid, and all of a sudden, it hits me, Steve can start to play white trash bingo with me. I clue him in on the game, and I make a few minor adjustments because he has a few accomplices. I told him about the game at work, and I fused it with a game me and a couple intern buddies used to play while doing special events at rock concerts for the most popular rock station in Cleveland.
We called it mullet hunter. Basically, we had a digital camera and we would go hunting for mullets. The twist was that we had to get a picture of ourselves with the mullet and the station logo, but the mullet wearer couldn’t know we were taking a photo of his/her mullet.
So I told Steve that he had to take photos of all the white trash there, but he had to be in the picture and the subject of the photo couldn’t know he was taking a photo of them. He was laughing his ass off.
That was a good sign. The following day, I called Steve on my way to work and we were talking about his finds at the white trash party. I told him we should start a MySpace page for it. He said no, we could start a real website. That day Steve went out and registered a couple domains, and he threw up something on there.
The next night Steve and I called our other brother Keith. He is trying to become a writer, and he’s pretty damn good too and we ask him to visit our coming soon page. He logs on, laughs, and we tell him that it’s our idea, he laughs more, and we ask him if he wants to write for it. He says sure.
Ever since we have been developing the idea and it’s gotten to the point that we are talking to a lawyer about some legalities, and we have a t-shirt line for it already. The site is just going to be a blog about our white trash experiences from day to day for now. There will be photos, but it will expand into the point were users can register for an account and write about their own white trash stories and upload their own photos.
We will send out more details as we create the site so sign up for our Eblast Newsletter for all the latest announcements.
