# Best Beauty Contest Ever! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178 "2005-05-03T04:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/1 "2005-05-03T04:05:46Z")
[http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/thailand\_pageant\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/thailand_pageant_dc) Wouldn’t you just love to be Miss Jumbo Queen? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/2 "2005-05-03T04:17:43Z")
I got as far as “The annual contest, which aims to raise awareness and money for Thailand’s dwindling elephant population…” before laughing my ass off. Oh man… ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/3 "2005-05-03T04:37:09Z")
One man’s jumbo is another man’s beauty. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/4 "2005-05-03T04:42:56Z")
> [@lavenderlemon](#): > > [http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/thailand\_pageant\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/thailand_pageant_dc) > > Wouldn’t you just love to be Miss Jumbo Queen? 🆒 Hey ! I resemble that remark !! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/5 "2005-05-03T04:54:10Z")
I think it’s great that we Dopers have a place like this where we can just come in and chew the fat. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/6 "2005-05-03T09:21:11Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > I got as far as > > “The annual contest, which aims to raise awareness and money for Thailand’s dwindling elephant population…” > > before laughing my ass off. Oh man… It gets better. From [CBC.ca](http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/05/02/elephant-pageant050502.html): > [@](#): > > The latest version of the Miss Jumbo Queen contest put two dozen women aged 18 to 35 through a traditional talent competition as well as interviews to discern whether they had the admirable qualities displayed by elephants. I think the contest is great but they _really_ need to find another way to phrase that. :smack: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/7 "2005-05-03T09:28:01Z")
[Here](http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/533600%3fformat=html) is a good picture of the winner. (Most of the news pictures are of Miss Jumbo Universe, the heaviest woman in the contest.) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/8 "2005-05-03T14:22:40Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > I think the contest is great but they _really_ need to find another way to phrase that. HA! That made my day, and it’s only 9:30. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/9 "2005-05-03T14:54:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Tarnrarin, a bubbly business student and tuba player from Bangkok… I read a riff (sometime, somewhere) on the “roundness” of the “b” sound – butts, boobs, bellies … ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/10 "2005-05-03T14:56:48Z")
[Reaction shot](http://story.news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/lf/050205missjumboqueen/im:/050502/ids_photos_wl/ra1961917647.jpg?sp=6000) of the winner. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/11 "2005-05-03T15:47:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Tarnrarin, a bubbly business student and tuba player from Bangkok, took home several prizes, including a Jumbo-sized trophy and $50,000 baht ($1,270). So the winner is a Tuba Diva. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/12 "2005-05-03T17:16:32Z")
She \*is \* awfully cute; I wish I’d been half as good looking when I was overweight. Actually, to heck with appearances, I’d have liked just an ounce of her self-confidence. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-beauty-contest-ever/302178/13 "2005-05-03T20:30:26Z")
My entire year is made. 😃