I think the way they judge this one will be a lot more interesting than the usual pageants. Here is a part of the rubric:
Marksmanship (10% of total score)
In the preliminaries each of the 50 contestants chosen will show their expertise in the use of firearms (pistol and rifle). The contestants will be judged on accuracy, use and safety as well as any additional expertise the contestant my possess. (This portion of the competition will be taped and edited for the live telecast)
Knowledge of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence (25% of total score)
Each contestant will be asked 3 specific questions that will demonstrate the contestants knowledge of these fundamental American documents.
Sounds interesting to me, anyway. I'm always up for pretty ladies exhibiting proper firearm handling and marksmanship - after all, my wife is my favorite range partner!
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UpTheIrons wrote:
Sounds interesting to me, anyway. I'm always up for pretty ladies exhibiting proper firearm handling and marksmanship - after all, my wife is my favorite range partner!
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Sounds interesting. At least the shooting portion demonstrates some sort of life skill, and hopefully they won't require the audience to suffer through all of the world peace speeches.
Ironically, on the page about requiring safety in handgun usage, they picture a woman with a pistol at high ready with her finger on the trigger and on the page where they say they have certain minimum modesty standards and require a full piece swimsuit, they placed an illustrative photo of a woman in a provocative pose.
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Hoi Polloi wrote:Ironically, on the page about requiring safety in handgun usage, they picture a woman with a pistol at high ready with her finger on the trigger and on the page where they say they have certain minimum modesty standards and require a full piece swimsuit, they placed an illustrative photo of a woman in a provocative pose.
Your right! How funny. But of course, the 'girl' with her finger on the trigger is no girl at all. It is a terminator robot from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I guess as a flesh covered robot from the future, she is allowed to break the rules. One, because she has precision control over her phalanges and will therefore never have an AD or ND, and two because she is friggin' terminator robot and so nobody is going to be brave enough to tell her she is 'doin' it wrong'.
Hoi Polloi wrote:Ironically, on the page about requiring safety in handgun usage, they picture a woman with a pistol at high ready with her finger on the trigger and on the page where they say they have certain minimum modesty standards and require a full piece swimsuit, they placed an illustrative photo of a woman in a provocative pose.
Your right! How funny. But of course, the 'girl' with her finger on the trigger is no girl at all. It is a terminator robot from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I guess as a flesh covered robot from the future, she is allowed to break the rules. One, because she has precision control over her phalanges and will therefore never have an AD or ND, and two because she is friggin' terminator robot and so nobody is going to be brave enough to tell her she is 'doin' it wrong'.
I am still looking for the provocative pose. I wanna see it.
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Hoi Polloi wrote:Ironically, on the page about requiring safety in handgun usage, they picture a woman with a pistol at high ready with her finger on the trigger and on the page where they say they have certain minimum modesty standards and require a full piece swimsuit, they placed an illustrative photo of a woman in a provocative pose.
Your right! How funny. But of course, the 'girl' with her finger on the trigger is no girl at all. It is a terminator robot from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I guess as a flesh covered robot from the future, she is allowed to break the rules. One, because she has precision control over her phalanges and will therefore never have an AD or ND, and two because she is friggin' terminator robot and so nobody is going to be brave enough to tell her she is 'doin' it wrong'.
I am still looking for the provocative pose. I wanna see it.
Me too, I guess provocative is in the eye of the beholder, all I saw was a pretty girl on the bow of a sailboat.
I wondered where I recognized the girl with the gun from.
They could have done a better job of choosing graphics as well as spell checking and copy editing.
Purplehood wrote:I am still looking for the provocative pose. I wanna see it.
Me too, I guess provocative is in the eye of the beholder, all I saw was a pretty girl on the bow of a sailboat.
Seriously, you don't think that is provocative? Obviously she is a pretty girl and she is on the bow of a sailboat, but I have to agree with Hoi that it is a provocative pose. But I think the point was the contrast of having the picture right next to:
MISS LIBERTY AMERICASM regulates certain minimum standards of modesty and will require a full piece swimsuit.
"Modesty" is more than just clothing choices and in this case, is more than just one piece vs. two piece. A contestant could wear a two-piece swimsuit and still display much more modesty than the girl in the picture wearing the one piece.
Ohhhhh! I clicked through all the links and saw the US Flag bathing suit on the Judging page. My initial impression of the "pose" was "hey that looks pretty crude".
Not crude as in provocative, crude as in the photographer doesn't know how to pose his subjects. The woman looked ungainly/sprawled to me.
In my little mind "provocative" is something I want to see. Hustler poses I do not. Perhaps Hoi Polloi was just using the term to be nice.
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Purplehood wrote:Ohhhhh! I clicked through all the links and saw the US Flag bathing suit on the Judging page. My initial impression of the "pose" was "hey that looks pretty crude".
Not crude as in provocative, crude as in the photographer doesn't know how to pose his subjects. The woman looked ungainly/sprawled to me.
In my little mind "provocative" is something I want to see. Hustler poses I do not. Perhaps Hoi Polloi was just using the term to be nice.
Yes, there were several other words that I thought more accurate, but they were crude or immodest of me to use in describing the ungainly immodesty so I went with provocative as it is technically accurate.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. -St. Augustine We are reformers in Spring and Summer; in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your right! How funny. But of course, the 'girl' with her finger on the trigger is no girl at all. It is a terminator robot from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I guess as a flesh covered robot from the future, she is allowed to break the rules. One, because she has precision control over her phalanges and will therefore never have an AD or ND, and two because she is friggin' terminator robot and so nobody is going to be brave enough to tell her she is 'doin' it wrong'. 
