If you scripted this...

[PCIntern]

no one would believe it.

So I got past the important news and realized that MISS AMERICA had been crowned without my knowledge! How far we've come in so short a time. I recall getting ready for the Pageant for three weeks, discussing the various ladies with my horny adolescent friends...but that was in the Black and White days of TeeVee.

So anyway, I Google the Pageant and the first thing is that Rush, of course, is a judge. I mean, who else is 'qualified' to be a celebrity judge when a you've got a drug-addled, sociopathic, homophobic, racist, sexually-deviant individual, right handy?

And then...AND THEN...I see the names of the New Miss America and the First Runner-up:

CARESSA CAMERON

and

KRISTY CAVINDER...


I mean...REALLY...if you were writing a teleplay or Harlequin Romance, those appellations would be bounced so fast it'd make your head spin. But it's TRUE! I guess their parents were really prescient!

WOW!

Next, we're going to hear that the President opened a can of Whoop-ass on 140 Republicans on National TeeVee with their approval. Fiction is still stranger than truth...right?


Naaah, who'd frigging believe that...

[brewens]

1. Isn't that a little unfair to drug addled, sociopathic,

homophobic, racist, sexually deviant individuals? Comparing them to Rush Limbaugh?

[asjr]

2. I happened upon that quite by

accident. At first I couldn't understand what was going on. And it was LIVE. I can remember also how I waited and waited for Miss America to be on television. And when it went to color I was beside myself. There I sat waiting for "There she is--Miss America" sung by Bert Parks! It was corny as all get-out but as a young woman I loved it. The bathing suits tantalized everyone simply by covering up what is now considered to be show it all. After title was taken away from Vanessa Williams I stopped watching and it went downhill from there. But--RUSH LIMBAUGH as a judge!! The bottom rung of the ladder even broke.

[monmouth]

3. I lived in Absecon as a youth and the "end of the summer" treat was

to go to the boardwalk and watch the parade. Almost always the Ice Capades were in town around that time also, and we went to see them. Then off to Blatt's Department store for "first day of school" clothes. Great memories. The contestants in those days seems to me now, to have been so mature and sophisticated. My first Miss America was Bebee Shoppe. Gawd, I'm old...LOL.

[asjr]

4. Me too! First one I remember was Bess Meyerson.

[monmouth]

6. Remember the big deal they made when Bess won that she was

the first "Jewish" girl? I mean, they made such a big deal of that. She was gorgeous also...

[PCIntern]

8. Remember Child's restaurants on the Boardwalk...

and Captain Starns???

Those devilled clams!!!!!

I'm talking about the restaurant, here....

[monmouth]

10. I danced on the Steel Pier (tap) children's show...Tony Grant's Stars

of Tomorrow.... Mother thought I'd grow to at least 5'8 and be a Rockette. That's where I met Al Pacino..He was Alfredo back then. I could tell some stories I tell ya. Loved Child's and my dad would once in a while take me to the Claridge Hotel for lunch. He worked in Ventnor and would stop by when I was on break. I would sometimes have my break with Sammy Kaye who was playing downstairs in the ballroom...., Sophie Tucker used to call me "Kid"....LOL.

[lapfog_1]

5. People can't (usually) help their names.

One of the smartest (and most respected) women in the field of Supercomputers is named Cherri Pancake.

I shit you not.

http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/research/members/pancake/index.html

[PCIntern]

7. As I stated...

you can't script this...

[Mira]

9. Recommended with a few hearty laughs! N/T