I read this rather droll news item:
Iceland’s Iris Arnadottir smiles after winning the Miss Scandinavia beauty contest in 2001. An alternative beauty pageant to be held in a remote Icelandic town will reward contestants’ wrinkles, saggy breasts and other bodily imperfections and hopes to challenge Western ideas of beauty.(AFP/Lehtikuva/File/Matti Bjorkman)
Which, wouldn’t have been so unusual other than it had this pic:
Which, reading the article, and looking at the pic, led me to believe Iris Amadottir, in six years, must have developed wrinkles, saggy breasts, and other bodily imperfections. I therefore felt compelled to investigate this situation further.
I initially got this rather odd response from Google: "Your search - "Iris Amadottir" - did not match any documents." Now, this HAD to be impossible. First of all, she’s a former Miss Scandinavia. That alone would merit mention in Wiki. So, I thought, let’s Wiki! Searching for Iris Amadottir resulted in this rather amazing result: "No page with that title exists.". Now, I’m getting a bit agitated as this rather simple search for a red-hot babe with a title who apparently had met some unfortunate disease or something was becoming difficult. So, I Wikie’d Miss Scandanavia. Which was wrong completely. I then Wikie’d Miss Scandinavia. There she was, according to Wiki, Miss Scandinavia 2002, not 1. And, of course, they had a link on her name. So, I followed that red hot link. I got "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title." So, I then came to realize her name was NOT Iris Amadottir, but actually Íris Björk Árnadóttir. Which made things a lot easier. She now apparently looks something like this:
She’s the one on the far right of the pic. I don’t see any wrinkles, hard to guess on the breasts, but I’m ASSUMING they’re not sagging too much. And, I don’t see any other bodily imperfections that are overt.
However, I’m quite certain if they had featured a picture more like this:

No one would have gone to the trouble I did of even clicking on it. As much as "an alternative beauty pageant" wants to make a statement, the fact is, it’s not America’s perception of what is beautiful or not, it’s mankind’s. We reward those that make an effort. And given Yahoo featuring possibly the most obscure beauty pageant winner of all time as their teaser, I wonder if this goofball pageant even exists or whether it’s just Yahoo cashing in on Pavlov yet again.
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