# Time now for the Doper Beauty Pageant... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881 "2003-09-26T01:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/21 "2003-10-10T09:07:49Z")
Platform: Cross–Linux and Windows Talent: Speed solving Rubik’s Cube while unicycling! Cicada–one-time roommate of Miss Oklahoma ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/22 "2003-10-11T04:45:48Z")
Platform: Red hair and black leather Talent: 😉 😃 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/23 "2003-10-11T05:00:55Z")
Platform: Proper Apostrophe Usage Talent: Mastering the K-TEL KNITTER, A REVOLUTIONARY NEW METHOD OF KNITTING AND CROCHETING WITH ONE NEEDLE, ANOTHER FINE PRODUCT FROM K-TEL INTERNATIONAL, 1970. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/24 "2003-10-11T12:00:09Z")
Platform: _Being nice is its own reward_ Talent: Full-contact multi-tasking in the mom-mode: planning a meal, doing laundry, grooming the dog, rotating the van’s tires, drafting a letter to the editor about school funding, and building a valance for the dining room without breaking a nail or breaking a sweat. And all the while being nice. ---
**Author:** ![sunrise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@sunrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunrise)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/25 "2003-10-11T14:27:59Z")
Platform: Shoes Talent: Tongue Tricks that must be done up personal and close to be believed. ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/26 "2003-10-11T14:41:26Z")
Platform: wiping out, once and for all, those hideous cropped pants that make everyone’s legs look horrible. Talent: can play “The Dying Swan” on a kazoo (grown men have been moved to tears by this performance). ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/27 "2003-10-11T17:36:27Z")
Platform: World Peace and sports cars for everyone! Talent: My impression of “Seafood on a Pizza” has been called “lyrical yet thoughtprovoking”. Not really, but my second talent is “Making up random blurbs on the spot” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881/28 "2003-10-11T17:47:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*I dunno **Dutchboy** , we were watching some aerobic sport/dance competition last night on ESPN and it was a team event. > > Pulsating music. Fit bodies. Finger tip body stands. choreographed jumps. Perky smiles. 1% body fat.Team event. > > And the one team we caught had a guy in the fruitiest leotard/mock electric blue tuxedo top doing high kicks and rather impressively girly moves along side his two female team mates. > > It was brutal to watch…more unnatural than seeing a man cry in public…yet we could not turn away. > > Then we learned that this team was from Argentina. And they won. > > So, if you promise to wear really fruity outfits and like puppies and waterfalls, then you are in. \*\* Fine, fine, I’m popping on the Elton glasses as we speak. Oh, and I’m changing my platform to “Capri pants for men too!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-now-for-the-doper-beauty-pageant/203881.md?page=1)