Miss Oklahoma Crowned Miss America

AP ^ | January 21, 2006 | JOHN CURRAN

[ConservativeStatement]

LAS VEGAS - A 22-year-old aspiring teacher from Oklahoma was crowned Miss America on Saturday night, the first time the storied but struggling pageant was held outside Atlantic City, N.J.

Jennifer Berry, a student at the University of Oklahoma, outlasted 51 other women to become Miss America 2006, earning a $30,000 college scholarship and a yearlong speaking tour in the process.

[vikingd00d]

>>but, Miss Texas is really cute...she must not have said she wanted "world peace" in her question/answer session...LOL

either that, or she added "through superior firepower" to her answer.

[ConservativeStatement]

Ali Landry is incredibly gorgeous. Her marriage to Mario Lopez lasted, what, less than a month, right?

[CrawDaddyCA]

They just might well be different contests. There are so many 'beauty pagents' it's hard to keep up!

If they are different contests, I stand corrected.

[ConservativeStatement]

Steel cage match?

[Paleo Conservative]

States that never produced a winner:

Wouldn't it be more useful to weight them by population? Big states like Texas and California have stiffer competition.

[Txsleuth]

LOL.....now that would be funny!!

[cyborg]

After a while, they just blend together and look the same LOL.

[yarddog]

Interesting. Out of the 21 states which have never produced a Miss America, only one is a Southern State.

I haven't watched the contest in probably 20 years.

[oceanview]

yes, Miss USA are the "loose" babes. Miss America are the "wholesome" babes.

[oceanview]

photo of miss utah from swimsuit:

[NormsRevenge]

What in the world is on the blonde's back?

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I think it's the shadow of another gal that may have a head mike apparatus on..

[Pro-Bush]

She's a beauty all right!

[Revolting cat!]

Miss USA are the "loose" babes

Thanks for the tip! Could be a life saver.

[Tall_Texan]

Not in Atlantic City??? That's as awful as having the Super Bowl in Detroit or the Sugar Bowl in Atlanta!

[ConservativeStatement]

I guess I tuned in too late. :-)

[truthpls]

You have a very smart man there.

[Warren_Piece]

LOL! It'a a brave new world.

[Txsleuth]

Boy, has the swimsuits changed....dang!!

I didn't watch this...or any beauty pagent in years...so I am really surprised by the suit.

[bannie]

I believe that some of them undergo surgery to perfect the lines. This might be one reason for the fact that so many of them look alike.

[Tall_Texan]

Why did I not have to look at the sash to recognize that sweet honey was from Texas?

I gave up watching these things when I was a young boy because they'd have 49 beautiful ladies and one dog-faced honk-nosed New Yorker and the New Yorker would always finish first or second. I realized then the whole thing must be rigged.