July 21, 2008
Miss Brooklyn Wins Miss New York
Earlier this year Leigh-Taylor Smith was crowned Miss Brooklyn, despite being from Manhattan (via Virginia). Now Newsday reports that the southern belle has become Miss New York, with a chance at the Miss America title and tiara come January. Executive director of Miss New York, Paul Brown, said that Smith qualified since she has lived in New York for a year (she moved here after graduation from the University of Virginia). She clinched the title last night with her "pretty face" and "toned body"...and, like, interview skills or whatever; Brown says, "Let's be realistic: Physical attractiveness is very appealing. But there are so many other elements. They must compete in interviews. They also must be very intelligent."
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Big ups to all the VA transplants before all the hate gets started.
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Yes there oral skills must be used thoroughly on the casting couch.
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"Very intelligent" + having an interest in competing in pageants? Hmm.
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Un fucking believable.
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Why is everybody so quick to judge her? She could be smart, although I wouldn't know since I didn't see the pageant. You just don't know. You know what would be funny? If she was smarter than all of the smart alecks who instantly labeled her an airhead.
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She could be intelligent; Miss America at least tries to hold onto the "scholarship pageant" moniker, unlike Miss USA which is really just Trump's Parade of Hawaiian Tropic Models.
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What?, no guidette or a real NYer is good enough to win Miss Brooklyn, in as much as Miss New York?
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If you're going to make up racist slurs, at least try to be consistent. -ette is French. -ina would be proper Italian form.
Boy, the quality of trolls is going down by the day.
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Whatever happened to Miss Gowanus Canal? I was really pulling for her.