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On April29, Carla Renee White,17,beat out 10 other women in casual wear and evening gowns to win a Berkeley County,S.C., beauty contest now in its 30th year: Miss Hell Hole, named after the Hell Hole Swamp,the local community's "defining body of water," as a May Boston Globe dispatch labeled it. White will not compete in the Miss South Carolina Pageant bacause the entry fee is too steep,but the pageant director said,We'd love to have Miss Hell Hole."

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Man, I'm going to be saddle sore!

[Jerome]

Originally posted by Conan: On April29, Carla Renee White,17,beat out 10 other women in casual wear and evening gowns to win a Berkeley County,S.C., beauty contest now in its 30th year: Miss Hell Hole, named after the Hell Hole Swamp,the local community's "defining body of water," as a May Boston Globe dispatch labeled it. White will not compete in the Miss South Carolina Pageant bacause the entry fee is too steep,but the pageant director said,We'd love to have Miss Hell Hole."

LOL!

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WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN, "WE'VE RAN OUT OF COFFEE"?

[onthepequod]

Sounds like a less than appealing title to vie for. I wonder how sought after it actually is.

Imagine, many probably get jealous over the right to be called (publicly no less) “Miss Hell Hole.”



[This message has been edited by onthepequod (edited 05-25-2001).]

As the time nears for the International Olympic Committee to select its 2008 site,China dogged Paris'bid,primarily because of the citys' notorious canine-poop problem. An April Boston Globe dispatch reported on the city's casual approach to cleaning the 16 daily tons of droppings(and average of two hospitalization injuries a day from people slipping on them),with a Paris Olympic official shrugging off the criticism:"It's just that there are no dogs in China, because they eat them"