Quote of the Week

“You can be graceful and beautiful and well-poised and skin a muskrat.”

So says Samantha Phillips, a contestant in the 2008 Miss Outdoors pageant, in Golden Hill, Md., the Houston Chronicle reports. Both she and the winner of the title, Dakota Abbott, chose skinning a muskrat as their talent in the annual competition. Usually, the beauty pageant and muskrat skinning are two separate competitions at the annual National Outdoor Show. Still, if these young ladies had chosen singing or dancing or twirling flaming batons, we’d never have heard about them way out here in Texas.

Way to go, ladies.

As they say in the musical Gypsy: “You gotta have a gimmick!”