Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site sysvis Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!sysvis!george From: george@sysvis Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Miss America info Message-ID: <-175090713@sysvis> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 17:38:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sysvis.-175090713 Posted: Mon Sep 23 17:38:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 08:00:40 EDT References: <813@aluxe.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:aluxe.UUCP:-81300:sysvis:-175090713:000:372 Nf-From: sysvis!george Sep 23 16:38:00 1985 >> That implies that there's been a Miss Alaska for all 64 years... >> how could that happen when Alaska's only been a state for 26? > > Well, there hasn't really been a Miss Alaska for all of those years. > For a while, it was really "Miss Nome." "Miss Alaska" is really sort of > a misnomer. (groan) > The one that I saw was more appropriately known as "Miss Gnome". Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com