Miss what??

I was watching the Miss Earth presentation ceremony highlights yesterday. As you probably know, Nicole Faria from India became the first Indian winner of the contest. I might have been watching the show, especially the swimsuit rounds, a bit too closely. Whatever the reason was, my girlfriend (who was watching with me) was pissed. The last thing I heard as she banged the door behind her was: 'Do I have to win one of these to get you interested in me?'

Then I started thinking. What if my girlfriend actually could win one of these?

Some googling later, I found that aspiring beauty queens worldwide can compete for four main crowns - Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth. At the Miss Earth competition alone, there are three more crowns at stake - Miss Earth Water, Miss Earth Fire and Miss Earth Air.

It is clear that there are more crowns coming. The question is: how many more? The answer is easy. Everyone wants more beauty contests, right? Right. And Miss World and Miss Universe are kind of equal in prestige, right? Therefore, every entity in the universe that's between the Earth and the Universe in size can have a beauty contest named after it. So that's half the solar system, and pretty much every star and galaxy in the universe. That's not too bad, there must be at least 2 billion of them with names.

So, in a few years, we could potentially have 2 billion beauty contests at an all-'World' level. And my girlfriend is definitely in the top 2 billion most beautiful women on the planet. I think. I hope.

Problem solved! Now, I just have to convince her.