Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Be Miss South Carolina ...
I've mentioned before that the wife and I really enjoy watching all the beauty pageants during the summer, and the Miss Teen USA Pageant last Friday underscored exactly why.
After the first cut, when they get down to 15 or whatever, we play Fantasy Pageant. Much like in fantasy football, we hold a draft. We each draft five contestants and make some kind of bet.
If one of her contestants, whom we call "horses," wins, then I have to buy/make the wife dinner, and vice versa.
We'll spend the remainder of the pageant laughing at the girls and dogging on each other's picks.
I manage to usually have more horses in the final five, but she always somehow picks the winner, just like she did last Friday.
I had Miss North Carolina and Miss South Carolina going into the final five, and I felt confident that I'd finally get the monkey of defeat off my back.
But then it came time for the Q and A, and my Carolinas gave some pretty dumb answers, one of which made pageant - and YouTube - history.
Miss South Carolina was asked about why so many Americans can't identify their country on a world map, and her rambling, nonsensical, hilarious answer was a thing to behold. It sounded like some kind of broken beat poetry, inexplicably working in South Africa, Iraq and Asia. Her explanation started with her saying that perhaps it was because "U.S. Americans" simply "didn't have maps."
See for yourself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
As of this writing, that splendid little video clip as been watched almost 10 million times.
If Miss South Carolina is smart - and her intelligence obviously has been called into question - she'll turn lemons into lemonade and capitalize, making the late-night talk show circuit, doing commercials, maybe even "Saturday Night Live."
Somehow, I don't think we've seen the last of this young lady, even though she didn't win.
After the first cut, when they get down to 15 or whatever, we play Fantasy Pageant. Much like in fantasy football, we hold a draft. We each draft five contestants and make some kind of bet.
If one of her contestants, whom we call "horses," wins, then I have to buy/make the wife dinner, and vice versa.
We'll spend the remainder of the pageant laughing at the girls and dogging on each other's picks.
I manage to usually have more horses in the final five, but she always somehow picks the winner, just like she did last Friday.
I had Miss North Carolina and Miss South Carolina going into the final five, and I felt confident that I'd finally get the monkey of defeat off my back.
But then it came time for the Q and A, and my Carolinas gave some pretty dumb answers, one of which made pageant - and YouTube - history.
Miss South Carolina was asked about why so many Americans can't identify their country on a world map, and her rambling, nonsensical, hilarious answer was a thing to behold. It sounded like some kind of broken beat poetry, inexplicably working in South Africa, Iraq and Asia. Her explanation started with her saying that perhaps it was because "U.S. Americans" simply "didn't have maps."
See for yourself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
As of this writing, that splendid little video clip as been watched almost 10 million times.
If Miss South Carolina is smart - and her intelligence obviously has been called into question - she'll turn lemons into lemonade and capitalize, making the late-night talk show circuit, doing commercials, maybe even "Saturday Night Live."
Somehow, I don't think we've seen the last of this young lady, even though she didn't win.
posted by Brian Pearson at 9:18 AM
1 Comments:
Your wife must be very, very smart.
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