Ogling of Women a Leading Cause of Car Accidents in Colombia

National Post [Canada] ^ | Thursday,June 15, 2006 | Canadian Press

[rattrap]

SCREEEEEEEECH CRUNCH!

[StJacques]

"SCREEEEEEEECH CRUNCH!"

You ok rattrap?

[Toby06]

LOL, we understand!

[mrsmith]

[StJacques]

Maria Virginia Balcazar

Guys; I had to come in for one more pic. I went looking for bigger and better versions of two very small pics I saw of this girl yesterday, but I never could find them. She is from the southern Colombian city of Popayan and is supposedly a well-known model, she is the "Palmolive Girl" in Colombia. I am telling you the full-bodied pics I saw of this girl were unbelievably stunning.

[California Patriot]

None are blank and they're all lovely. I can't get enough of these ladies!

[goldstategop]

Ogling a very beautiful woman might be the only thing that might lead me to wrap my car around a tree! ;-) SUPERMODELS ARE DANGEROUS TO MEN'S LIVES. (And this thread is - ahem - worthless without pics)

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[goldstategop]

My take on it on with a Teutonic twist:

Sie kann nicht ihm helfen, wenn sie dieser Weg gemacht wird,
sie ist nicht schuld, wenn sie ihr Weg aussehen,
sie ist nicht wirklich tryin', um eine Szene zu verursachen,
es kommt gerade natürlich, Herr das Mädchen kann nicht ihm helfen.

Gut auf der Hauptstraße, durch den Taxistand,
es gibt eine Menge von Leuten, und einem Rückstau,
sie sieht sich nicht um, sie ist nicht doin 'nichts' Falsches,
Herr hat Gnade, Baby, sie ist heiß, um zu traben!

[StJacques]

". . . they're all lovely. I can't get enough of these ladies! . . .

. . . And this thread is - ahem - worthless without pics"

When I did my search of the Colombian web sites day before yesterday, I did find a number of beauties I did not post, because generally speaking, I found many of the images a little smaller than I would like. If you guys want me to keep the thread going, I'll post a few more.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. Obviously a true beauty, but we need a bigger pic:

Claudia Helena Vasquez Angel

See what I mean? I have the best of intentions, I assure you.

Let me know if you guys want to see some more Bellezas Colombianas and, if you do, I'll drop back in later to post some.

[California Patriot]

Yes, show more.

Claudia is really stunning.

[StJacques]

". . . Claudia is really stunning."

Yes she is Patriot. Unfortunately, many of the best shots of her, in true original "digital" format, are very small. One problem I've run across in finding top quality pics for posting on this thread is that a number of the best photographs are obviously scanned, and frequently with less than what we would consider top quality machinery (as evidenced by the quality of the scans). I much prefer to find pics of these women from newspaper and magazine web sites, which almost exclusively use original digital pics. But I do have some pics of Claudia to show you.

And Draco, Claudia is from Medellin. When your friend told you that you "go to Medellin to find a wife," this is what he had in mind.

Claudia Helena Vasquez Angel

[StJacques]

Alright; one more and I'm outta here.

This one was last year's Señorita Colombia (Miss Colombia):

Catherine Daza Manchola

[Draco]

Muchas gracias St. Jacques. Claudia Helena takes this, hands down. The ladies seem to lack "model pout" which is a good thing. In addition to being beautiful they look pleasant to be with. Hey, a man can still dream.

[StJacques]

". . . Claudia Helena takes this, hands down. . . ."

I rarely watch the beauty pageants, but I remember seeing a pic of her on the web just a few years back when she was in the Miss Universe contest. It was right on the MSN homepage and I immediately got interested in the event, which I watched. She was one of the final five as I recall and I remember when she was eliminated I yelled at the TV in a manner similar to that which I do on NFL Sundays. And about one or two years before she was in the Miss Universe contest a Miss Colombia won the event, with Miss Venezuela taking second. About two to three months after she won, she stepped down to "marry the man she loved," because "true love can't wait." Those people in Colombia just ate that up with a spoon.

And Draco, let me tell you, beauty pageants are a VERY BIG DEAL in Colombia, as in most of Latin America. There is a sense of regionalism involved with the Miss Colombia pageant that leads the people of each Department ("Province" may be a better word) to view their individual representative with a sense of devotion only exceeded by the esteem in which they hold the Virgin Mary. I honestly saw a fight break out once between two men in Bogota who were debating the relative virtues and distinct beauty of the current "Miss Cauca" and "Miss Antioquia," obviously the two regions from which these two hailed. (And when the police showed up a whole new argument broke out because the officer in charge was from Cuindinamarca and he insisted that their current queen was tops -- no kidding.) We're talking serious business when it comes to beauty pageants. I also remember the current Miss Colombia was follwed everywhere in the press while I was down there. She probably gave out about 15 interviews a month that were published in major newspapers or magazines and it was a certainty that you would hear about her every week on the evening news.

". . . The ladies seem to lack "model pout" which is a good thing. . . ."

A very astute observation there Draco. After the time I have spent these past few days looking over the Colombian web sites I noticed that on the occasions these women were asked to pout, their photos just did not "make it," if I can put it that way. Ana Sofia Henao is the one exception. These are women who are beautiful when they smile, and I always remembered Colombian women as a very happy lot. I've always told my friends that there are three things that set Colombian women apart from all others; constant smiling, a love of fine shoes like no other women on earth, and the practice of waxing their legs with parafin, rather than shaving.

[California Patriot]

Whoever chose Senorita Colombia chose well. Ms. Catherine Daza is a 10.5.

[StJacques]

"Whoever chose Senorita Colombia chose well. Ms. Catherine Daza is a 10.5."

I had a hard time believing that Maria Virginia Balcazar (first set above) didn't win it this year. I don't remember where I saw those two other pics of her, one was a full body photo in a bikini and the other was wearing that slit-skirt dress you see her in at the Miss Colombia pageant, though that pic is a different one than the small pic I saw of her in it and from a different angle. I guess they had to keep the pics small to protect my motherboard from overheating. I'm telling you that girl is gorgeous.

And since I'm posting . . . here's another Colombiana for you:

Carolina Cruz

[JRios1968]

Which distraction is worse - ogling women, using a cellphone, playing with the radio, or eating?

Try doing ALL OF THEM!