Let's just throw ideas out there...first thing that comes to mind.

Title: Hold Your Dauber's, Please!

Logline: A recently out of work gaming executive attends his wife's weekly Bingo game and decides to become a professional Bingo player.

Hi SuzieQ,

This could be a great comedy. All the old 'biddies' will love a young man to hang around - unless he wins all their prizes.

How much time have you spent on this, meaning is this all that you've come up with or are there working in the making...?

Penelope.

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I agree that there is a goldmine of comic possibilities in the world of Bingo. Have you ever visited the Bingo halls at the Vegas casinos? Most all of them have Bingo in some fashion and they have a culture all their own - kind of like the race track. Some go all night long. And the prize money can be decent, too.

I've been several times to different ones (a former girlfriend became an avid Bingo player after going through rehab - some Bingo players keep some of the same hours as drug addicts) and it's a whole subculture. People want their "lucky" seats and they have all kinds of good luck charms spread out in front of and around them.

The possibilities... The possibilities!!!

Hello MJLangface,

Wow... no I haven't been to Vegas. One day...!!! But we don't have Bingo here that huge. That is incredible. Now - I can see the hilarious side to this story. He could really throw a spanner in the works of these women, or by the sounds of it 'all regulars'.

Sitting in somebodies lucky seat could create another world war and the media would be in frenzie. Actually, it sounds like a cool publicity stunt... hehe.

Penelope.

Penelope,

Yeah, it's just bizarre in a surreal way. One casino in particular used to run all night Bingo in something like two hour sessions with a half hour break in between. Imagine a room full of elderly people - men in bad toupees and women with hair colors that have never been seen in nature - with vampire tans and cigarettes that are 80% ash hanging out of the corner of their mouths. And there is always a decent mix of younger people who have the kind of... oh, shall we say, "habits"? They obviously have the kind of habits that aren't conducive to steady employment. The regulars have these bags - like Bingo purses - that are specifically made for carrying their dauber thingy's (thingy - that's a technical term) and I've seen some who have Bingo sheets spread out in front of them like maps of the world... if you ever get the chance you should definitely check out one for the research experience alone.

I smell a Will Farrell movie.

Hahahaha.

I'm a fan of Ben Stiller. Maybe together they can really make something of this.

Your descriptions sound like Mary's Aunt or friend or whoever in 'There's Something About Mary'. Funny stuff, plus I laughed my arse off at this movie.

Oh My God... though. I can't believe how out of all the things in the world to get into, they choose Bingo. Although I suppose, "Some mothers do have 'em"...

Hilarious. Maybe we should all get into writing this with SuzieQ. Plus the research sounds like it'd be one 'hellova' time... (another technical word there, used specifically for descriptive purposes only).

Penelope.

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