Dumb beauty pageant answer leads to kind of cool blog

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Dumb beauty pageant answer leads to kind of cool blog

by Brad Linder Aug 30th 2007

In the last 5 days, a YouTube video of Miss South Carolina giving an incoherent answer during the Miss Teen USA pageant has been viewed nearly 9 million times. Asked why 1 in 5 Americans can't locate the USA on a map, she essentially said we need more maps. And South Africa, and Iraq, such as. Or something.

But while you may have laughed, the folks at G4TV's Attack of the Show took action. They created MapsforUs.org, a web blog dedicated to maps. Users can e-mail maps of pretty much anything, from their high school parking lot to Sparta, to the blast door map from the TV show Lost.

There's something intrinsically interesting about maps, especially maps that show interesting places or show everyday locations in an unusual way. So while the blog was obviously created as a joke, it makes for pretty compelling reading. After the jump check out the videos that started it all.

[via Boing Boing]

Miss South Carolina:

Attack of the Show:

Tags: g4tv, maps, maps for us, mapsforus, miss south carolina, miss teen usa, MissSouthCarolina, MissTeenUsa

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

datter said 11:15PM on 8-30-2007

The site is apparently... dead.

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Fred Thompson said 9:09AM on 8-31-2007

Uh...did you mean Miss TEEN South Carolina? Miss South Carolina doesn't compete in Miss Teen USA any more than a college athlete competes at the High School level.

E.J. said 9:09AM on 8-31-2007

Umm, hello? It's "the Iraq" and everywhere such as.

The Children of US America said 9:09AM on 8-31-2007

Dear Download Squad,

Thank you for what you've done. US Americans were crying map-less tears and you've help bring them map-filled joy.

In fact, just today, one of them asked me where Tahti was and thanks to your help (and the maps of your readers) I was able to point him towards the internet to find his own way. It's best to let them learn for themselves that Tahiti no longer exists.

Again, mozeltov!

Russell Heimlich said 10:11AM on 8-31-2007

It also gets you a retarded video-map quiz on People.com -> http://www.people.com/people/quiz/0,,20053640,00.html

Todd said 10:22AM on 8-31-2007

Is it just me, or is Miss Teen South Carolina exactly like "Weena" from the 1960 film The Time Machine? Remember? The last act of that movie is set like 70,000 years in the future and the human race has split into two species? The Eloi are pretty, painfully stupid people all with blond hair.

Miss Teen Eloi indeed.

Diddle said 8:03AM on 9-01-2007

I know where the USA is - right under that kickass country... CANADA! :D

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