Miss Universe

Tonight we watched the Miss Universe pagent, skipping insignificant portions with fast forward and 30-second skip, courtesy of Tivo.  Now typically the show is not particularly exciting, but each of us picked a contestant to root for starting with the final 15.   Jeffrey chose Greece, Grace chose Dominican Republic, Carol chose Venezuela, Karen chose Israel, David chose Peru, Freddy (David’s brother) chose Puerto Rico.  Unfortunately, none of us won as Canada took the crown.  The closest was Freddy’s runner up Puerto Rico.  His sophisticated hieuristic for making choices was … choosing the worst candidate, and while the rest of us dropped like flies, he made it as far as the runner up to Miss Universe!  Go figure.

While watching, we noticing celebrity resemblances.  I noticed that Grace, an Alias addict, may have subconsciously chosen Dominican Republic due to her close resemblance to Jennifer Garner.  Let’s put up pictures for comparison:

Miss Dominican Republic

Jennifer Garner

Carol made some associations herself.  She thought that my Mexico looked like Mariah Carey:

Miss Mexico

Mariah Carey

And that Miss South Africa looked like Celine Dion:

Miss South Africa

Celine Dion

Do you see the resemblance here?  I believe mine is the closest thank you very much. 😀