For Once, The Dumbest Person At A Beauty Pageant...

[Lord Jim]

Wasn't a contestant:

Mistake crowns wrong Miss Universe contestant before real winner



LAS VEGAS -- The Miss Universe contestant from the Philippines is this year's winner but for one brief moment, it appeared as if it might be a repeat win for Colombia.

Colombia contestant Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo was already wearing the crown as this year's Miss Universe winner when host Steve Harvey returned to apologize.

Harvey says it was his mistake and that he would take responsibility for not reading the card correctly that named contestant Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach this year's winner and Colombia the first runner-up.

A mystified Wurtzbach appeared stunned as she walked to the front of the stage alongside the crown-wearing Arevalo before last year's Miss Universe from Colombia removed the crown and placed it on Wurtzbach's head instead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mistake-cro ... ve-harvey/

[RayThom]

...Harvey says it was his mistake and that he would take responsibility for not reading the card correctly that named contestant Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach this year's winner and Colombia the first runner-up.
A mystified Wurtzbach appeared stunned as she walked to the front of the stage alongside the crown-wearing Arevalo before last year's Miss Universe from Colombia removed the crown and placed it on Wurtzbach's head instead.

This surely will destroy our faith in the sanctity of this universal rite. I, for one, was crestfallen when I realized such an error in dogma could be made. After all, the proceedings even has a panel of judges to make sure everything goes smoothly and with infallibility.

It appeared to me that good ol' boy, Steve Harvey, was quite smitten with Miss Colombia throughout the ceremony and the gaff was due to wishful and/or wistful thinking. Poor Steve, I bet he got no post-service communion and will no doubt get excommunicated from next year's synod.

Yet another religious experience bites the dust.

[Joe Guy]

Ms Colombia should sue the pageant for defamation of character and emotional rollercoasterism.

[rubato]

I'm still waiting for some television programming genius to introduce what will be the greatest entertainment spectacle of all time: Miss WestleMania Universe! All the contestants grease up and jump into a ring filled with jello and wesson oil simultaneously for a 'Battle royal of the Beauties'.


yrs,
rubatao (now! with more enlightenment!)

[TPFKA@W]

I didn't even realize they still did this thing.

[Long Run]

And thus was born the saying "That's a Steve Harvey at a beauty pageant!"

[MajGenl.Meade]

[dales]

better chance than the woebegone SF 49'ers.

[oldr_n_wsr]

"Survey Says......"