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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 01:06 PM

    Miss Congeniality

    Miss Upton's response that she didn't hear the question seems reasonable. Having not heard the question, she decided to throw in all of the appropriate beauty pageant answer buzzwords: "Education. Iraq. South Africa. Our Children. Our Future."

    The only one she was missing was "9/11." And "world peace."

    It reminds me of that scene in Miss Congeniality (2000) with Sandra's Bullock's character Gracie Hart as a pageant contestant. Everyone else asked this question has answered the same way...

    Stan Fields: What is the one most important thing our society needs?

    Gracie Hart: That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.

    [crowd is silent]

    Gracie Hart: And world peace!

    [crowd cheers ecstatically]

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212346/quotes

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