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If Mario Lopez had responded:
Miss South Carolina, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
From Billy Madison http://imdb.com/title/tt0112508/quotes
The reason it was so funny has nothing to do with pageants or women or anything. Can you blame a total lack of knowledge of English grammar on nervousness? It's like she forgot how to be fluent in her native language. Like her brain had a corrupted file in it and needed to be rebooted. That's funny no matter who is saying it, unless the person has some weird aphasia.