Then she took out a very sharp four-inch blade and stuck the point in just above the animal's tail.
"Then," she said, narrating the incision as sweetly as a Miss America contestant talking about world peace, "you're going to want to take your knife ... "
This was the "talent" portion of the 2008 Miss Outdoors pageant, part of an improbable Eastern Shore festival that combines the worlds of beauty contests and competitive muskrat skinning.
For years here, young women have paraded in glittery evening gowns, and then — on the same stage — skinners in camouflage hats have separated small animals from their pelts.
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You can dress trailer trash up any way you want. It's still just trailer trash in cheap polyester dresses and faux rhinestones on a catwalk in redneck country. Too bad the muskrats didn't get a chance to do the same for Princess Bad Taste. The world would be a better place.
Billy Bob, where's PETA and the spray paint when you need them most?
instead of skinning, they should play paintball....lol in their dresses
How sad is it that I live on the eastern shore. About an hour or so away from there. Thankfully, this is the first I've ever heard of this....pageant. I actually had to look up where Golden Hill was, and then was not so suprised. That area is known for being.....interesting
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