Beauty pageants... parades of lovely looking lasses in bathing suites and gowns who tell us inane things like I'd like to save the Earth etc. But here is a twist reported by the BBC. A beauty contest featuring.... Nuns.

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The Miss Sister Italy contest will be run on a blog by an Italian Priest whose mission is to prove that not all nuns are old and ugly. But before you dirty guys get all excited at the prospect of Nuns in bathing suits, it will be based only on head shots and the Nuns will not be asked to parade in thongs and push ups.....