Posted on 01/16/2015 2:28:41 PM PST by goldstategop
The finale of the Miss Universe pageant is a week from Sunday. It will be televised on NBC at 8 Eastern, 7 Central. We wrote about the pageant and previewed some of the contestants here. Miss Universe now easily eclipses Miss World as the leading international beauty pageant. It is on television, for one thing; it still has a swimsuit competition, for another. Also, Miss Universe promotes itself far more skillfully, perhaps because it is owned by Donald Trump. The main Miss Universe web site is here; the pageant’s YouTube feed is here; its Facebook page is here; its excellent Instagram account, which is supplemented by lots of contestants’ accounts, is here. On YouTube, you can see brief interviews with the contestants, and the main web site finally has a good selection of photos for each contestant.
The contestants have been assembled in Miami for a week or so and have participated in a variety of activities, all of which have been copiously photographed. Yesterday they took the swimsuit photos, a signal event. There are small versions of the photos on the pageant site, but much higher resolution ones are available at Missology. Yes, there are web sites devoted to pageantry. We scour the Internet so you don’t have to.
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Well there goes my New Years resolution
Anyone of these lovlies need someone to sponsor them to
immigrate here .....????
Come and see my gun collection!"
Annnnnnd we’re now in the Smokey Backroom. Soon to be followed by thread lock and thread deletion.
Dang, look at Ms. Columbia’s expression. Usually when a woman looks like that, you better get the hell out of there.
ALL.....
NOT GUILTY!!!!
Hurry up and ping Laz! (he was probably there with them at the photo shoot)
Its adult material.
But there’s nothing offensive, sexually vulgar or anything in poor taste about these beauties.
There can be only ONE Miss Universe. :)
That’s why I keep the lights on.
:-)
Sorry still haven’t bothered to learn the correct way to put a link in here, but...
http://linkis.com/powerlineblog.com/g1Aga
That is the slide show of the swimsuit shots. Some ideas of what passes for “beauty” border on the hilarious. Interesting how some of the Scandinavian countries have dark haired contestants and some of the Central and South American countries have blondes...
Please be careful. I’d hate for this one to meet the same fate as the infamous lingierie football thread.
Well.. the Kate Upton thread is still around minus a few moderator approved deletions.
My wife has had 7 children and her belly looks like that.
She does have some stretch marks though.
That's the "YOU WERE NOT AT WORK WHEN I CALLED THERE AT 2:30AM AND THE SECURITY GUARD SAID YOU LEFT AT 7:00PM!!!!" look.
I experienced that look a few times many moons ago.
Miss Russia looks weird. Too much Chernobyl juice in the groundwater I suppose.
I’m NOT complaining. Eye candy is always welcome here. :)
Reminds of those telenovela scenes where the poor guy denies having a mistress and the wife goes crazy throwing the incriminating photos at him.
If you get caught, be sure your wife doesn’t catch you in a lie.
for once, Miss USA actually looks hotter
Except for Asian women, and particularly if they have the babies young. They snap back right away! You’re not supposed to call them “Orientals” anymore so I’ve heard my male friends call them “Ornamentals” instead.
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