Win A Wife .......
If you thought that the most degrading thing a radio contest has done was make a person dressed in a wonder woman costume jump into a 400-gallon pool of green Jell-O, then you might want to sit down for this one.
Over the next month, a Canadian radio station will be holding a "Win a Wife" competition in which contestants will compete to win a Russian bride.
Edmonton's The Bear 100.3 has joined with A Volga Girl, a Russian "matchmaking" website, to give one listener a round-trip flight to Russia, 13 nights of accommodation and $500 to spend to meet a "lucky lady" provided by Volga.
The contest is advertised on the station's website with a picture of a skimpily dressed bride with a blurred face, her hands placed suggestively near her mouth. The text below reads: "We're not going to give this opportunity to just anybody ... to weed out the no-hopers and time-wasters, we've developed the application form below. If you're interested in potential holy matrimony with a hot foreign chick, fill it out to the best of your abilities."