[MadIvan]

To tell the absolute truth I would not have known about, nor cared a whit about this event if it hadn't been for the turmoil in Nigeria.

But anyhow, here is Miss Turkey:

Glad it's over, really. Whingeing lefties and radical Islamists make for sheer nausea.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, Happy Thanksgiving! ;0)

[dighton]

Congratulations.

Give me some time, and I'll write oxi_nato's rebuttal.

[Diogenesis]

[Momaw Nadon]

Schwing!

er, I mean Ping!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Miss Turkey wins Miss World

[patton]

Ivan, what does "whingeing" mean?

[TopQuark]

Is it any surprise that a Muslim Miss is Miss World?

Much like Nobel for Carter was a slap to Bush, this is purely a pacifying gesture to all those rioters.

Pathetic and unfair to this Turkish woman.

[Wordsmith]

Oh boy, this means next year's competition will be in Turkey. Maybe we'll get to go through this all over again!

[Howlin]

I'm just thankful that cheap, tacky Miss North Carolina/Miss United States (or whatever they call her now) didn't even place. She made a complete fool out of herself over her "title" here....I'm glad she didn't even place!

[Lokibob]

See, now I'm going to go over to my neighbors house and bet a 6 pack with him over who wins tonite.

Thank goodness he doesn't visit FR.

[Valin]

London's Mayor Ken Livingstone condemned the decision to hold the displaced contest in London after it had brought "tragedy and strife" to Africa.

Oh give me a break!! Hello Hello, is there anybody in there.

[Sabertooth]

For a better look at the other contestants, click on the thumbnails...

Miss World 2002
Miss Albania	Miss Algeria	Miss American Virgin Islands	Miss Angola
Miss Antigua	Miss Argentina	Miss Aruba	Miss Australia
Miss Bahamas	Miss Barbados	Miss Belgium	Miss Belize
Miss Bolivia	Miss Bosnia & Herzegovina	Miss Botswana	Miss Brazil
Miss Bulgaria	Miss Canada	Miss Chile	Miss China
Miss Colombia	Miss Croatia	Miss Curacao	Miss Cyprus
Miss Czech Republic	Miss Ecuador	Miss England	Miss Estonia
Miss Finland	Miss France	Miss Ghana	Miss Gibraltar
Miss Greece	Miss Guatemala	Miss Guyana	Miss Holland
Miss Hong Kong China	Miss Hungary	Miss India	Miss Ireland
Miss Israel	Miss Italy	Miss Jamaica	Miss Japan
Miss Kazakhstan	Miss Kenya	Miss Korea	Miss Latvia
Miss Lebanon	Miss Lithuania	Miss Macedonia F.Y.R.O	Miss Malaysia
Miss Malta	Miss Mexico	Miss Namibia	Miss New Zealand
Miss Nicaragua	Miss Nigeria	Miss Northern Ireland	Miss Norway
Miss Peru	Miss Philippines	Miss Poland	Miss Puerto Rico
Miss Romania	Miss Russia	Miss Scotland	Miss Singapore
Miss Slovakia	Miss Slovenia	Miss Swaziland	Miss Sweden
Miss Tanzania	Miss Thailand	Miss Trinidad and Tobago	Miss Turkey
Miss Uganda	Miss Ukraine	Miss United States	Miss Uruguay
Miss Venezuela	Miss Vietnam	Miss Wales	Miss Yugoslavia
Miss Zimbabwe	Miss Germany	Miss South Africa	Miss Panama
Miss Spain	Miss Tahiti

[hosepipe]

Has to be said:
"I don't care if they are virgins or not, preferably NOT"
there I said it....so there, its like compareing diamonds.
What a bunch of beautiful humans......

[El Sordo]

You should have titled the thread:

"Miss XXX wins...."

You'd have gotten a lot more attention.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Turkey, eh?

Islamic country, I'll note.

(Didn't really think US or Israel had a chance, did you?)

[Diddle E. Squat]

Some would have preferred that Miss XXX win.

[DoughtyOne]

I don't watch or follow beauty pageants. If people want to it's fine by me. I do not understand the thinking behind calling for the Miss World pageant to cancel. They didn't cause any problems. Some lunatics used them and a newspaper article for an excuse to go on a rampage. They didn't instigate it. They didn't cause it. The didn't condone it.

As little as beauty pageants mean to me, riots caused by the mere production of them is beyond me. Imagine the brain process that concludes Mohammad + Beauty Pageant = riots and death to hundreds.

Once again, the ugly side of a "peaceful" (ROTFLMAO) people comes glaring through.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Miss France just called me here at the house and offered to surrender...what a quandry, don't know what to do next!

[Sabertooth]

More important info...

Miss World 2002 Contestants

ALBANIA Anjeza Maja, 21 5'9"	ALGERIA Lamia Saoudi, 22 6'	AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS Hailey Cagan	ANGOLA Rosa Muxito, 21 5'9"	ANTIGUA & BARBUDA Zara Razzaq	ARGENTINA Tamara Henriksen 5'11"
ARUBA Rachelle Oduber, 21 6'1"	AUSTRALIA Nicole Gazal, 23 5'7"	BAHAMAS T'Shura Ambrose, 25 5'7"	BARBADOS Natalie Webb, 20 5'11"	BELGIUM Sylvie Doclot, 22 5'9"	BELIZE Karen Russell, 24 5'6"
BOLIVIA Alejandra Montero, 17 5'7"	BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA Daniela Vins, 17 5'9"	BOTSWANA Lomaswati Dlamini, 20 5'7"	BRAZIL Taisa Thomsen, 20 5'11"	BULGARIA Desislava Guleva, 18 5'9"	CANADA Lynsey Bennett, 22 5'8"
CHILE Daniela Casanova, 22 5'10"	CHINA Wu Ying-Na, 17 5'7"	COLOMBIA Natalia Peralta, 21 5'9"	CROATIA Nina Slamic, 18 5'10"	CURACAO Ayannette Statia, 19 5'9"	CYPRUS Angela Drousiotou, 21 5'8"
CZECH REPUBLIC Katerina Smrzova, 23 5'11"	ECUADOR Jessica Angulo 5'8"	ENGLAND Danielle Luan, 21 5'8"	ESTONIA Triin Sommer, 19 5'6"	FINLAND Hanne Hynynen, 21 5'9"	FRANCE Caroline Chamorand, 21 5'9"
GHANA Shaida Buari, 20 6'2"	GIBRALTAR Damaris Hollands, 21 5'6"	GREECE Katerina Georgiadou, 21 5'10"	GUYANA Odessa Phillips	HOLLAND Elise Boulogne, 20 5'9"	HONG KONG CHINA Victoria Jolly, 20 5'7"
HUNGARY Renata Rosz, 21 5'10"	INDIA Shruti Sharma, 22 5'8"	IRELAND Lynda Duffy 5'9"	ISRAEL Karol Lowenstein 5'8"	ITALY Susanne Zuber, 21 5'8"	JAMAICA Danielle Ohayon, 18 5'6"
JAPAN Yuko Nabeta	KAZAKHSTAN Olga Sidorenko, 19 5'11"	KENYA Maryanne Kariuki	KOREA Yu-Kyung Chang	LATVIA Baiba Svarca, 20 5'9"	LEBANON Bethany Kehdy, 21 5'10"
LITHUANIA Oksana Semenishina 5'11"	MACEDONIA Jasna Spasovska	MALAYSIA Mable Ng Chin Mei	MALTA Joyce Gatt 5'11"	MEXICO Blanca Zumarraga, 20 6'	NAMIBIA Ndapewa Alfons 6'1"
NEW ZEALAND Rachel Huljich 5'9"	NICARAGUA Hazel Calderon, 24 5'7"	NIGERIA Chinenye Ochuba, 18 6'	NORTHERN IRELAND Gayle Williamson 5'8"	NORWAY Katrine Sorland, 21 5'10"	PERU Marina Mora, 22 5'11"
PHILIPPINES Katerine Manalo, 21 5'7"	POLAND Marta Matyjasik, 20 5'11"	PUERTO RICO Cassandra Polo, 18 5'10"	ROMANIA Cleopatra Popescu, 23	RUSSIA Anna Tatarintseva, 24 5'7"	SCOTLAND Paula Murphy 5'8"
SINGAPORE Sharon Cintamani, 23	SLOVAKIA Eva Veresova, 22 5'9"	SLOVENIA Natasa Krajnc, 21 5'10"	SWAZILAND Nozipho Shabangu	SWEDEN Sofia Hedmark, 20 5'6"	TANZANIA Angela Damas, 20 5'9"
THAILAND Ticha Leungpairoj, 21 5'8"	TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Janelle Rajnauth, 21 5'5"	TURKEY Azra Akin, 20 5'10"	UGANDA Rehema Nakuya, 20 5'7"	UKRAINE Iryna Udovenko, 21 5'7"	UNITED STATES Rebekah Revels, 22 5'6"
URUGUAY Natalia Figueras, 21 5'9"	VENEZUELA Goizeder Azua, 18 5'10"	VIETNAM Pham Thi Mai Phuong, 17 5'7"	WALES Michelle Bush, 22 5'7"	YUGOSLAVIA Ana Sargic, 19 5'10"	ZIMBABWE Linda Van Beek, 20 5'9"