Gosh, I wish a Fort Wayne gal would win the Miss Indiana pageant so I could write a gushy editorial like this one:
"We're very excited that one of our own has accomplished this," said Noblesville Mayor John Ditslear, who participated in a mock interview with Guilkey to prepare her for judges' questions just weeks before she left for the pageant Jan. 10. Guilkey had about 100 supporters with her in Las Vegas, and thousands more of us rooting at home.
I bet that interview prep must have been something on the order of trying to teach a cat to fetch. I've actually interviewed some of these contestants, back when I worked in Michigan City and the state pageant was there. I wouldn't want to say it was mind-numbing, but imagine the most non-responsive politician you've ever heard, who just keeps repeating his talking points over and over no matter what questions are asked, multiply the insincerity by a factor of 10 and cut the number of polysyllabic words in half, and you'll have some idea.
Yeah, they were "pretty," in a way. But all in sort of the same way, which gets very dull after a while.
