252 "Miss Whatever"

This year's Miss Whatever contest was held at the Sango Jingo amphitheater. There were a bevy of beauties competing, the only entrance requirement being having previously won 2nd prize in a beauty contest (and $10).

This year's winner was FeeBeeLee DeeLee, of The Forbidden Zone, a mysterious somewhere deep into the nether basin of Sang0 Jingo.

It wasn't surprising that Slimbo Jumbo, the pageant's Master of Ceremonies, used this opportunity to try to pump some info out of Ms. DeeLee about her hometown area, The Forbidden Zone. At the microphone, during the "question" portion of the competition, Slimbo Jumbo asked her, "So from what part of the Forbidden Zone do you hail?"

"I'd rather not talk about it, thank you," she answered, ever so demurely.

"Yes," countered Slimbo Jumbo, " surely the audience--and I might add--the judges would like to know a little more about your life there. I mean, are you allowed to say anything about The Forbidden Zone?"

"It is forbidden!" she snapped, to add some finality.

"Really?"

"Am I speaking Chinese? Do you not understand?"

"I'd rather not say," Jumbo said, playing a bit mysterious himself.

"Neither would I," DeLee answered.

"Touché," Slimbo Jumbo concluded. "Well, there you have it."

"Depends on what you mean by "it." I can say no more." DeLee folded her arms, adding body language to her negative affect.

Slimbo Jumbo, in his report to sUmUs cOcOOnUs, D.E., stated the following about what he had learned from this limited exchange:

We know that they don't know whether they're speaking Chinese or not. We know that a lot of things are absolutely forbidden. We know that there are strange things afoot in The Forbidden Zone, for otherwise, The Forbidden Zone would never had let Ms. DeeLee enter, thereby giving us a glimpse of what young ladies from there even look like. Also, the rules of the pageant clearly state that a representative from the pageant must accompany this year's Miss Whatever on the publicity and good will tour of the entire Sango Jingo nation, including The Forbidden Zone. This year Notso Fatso will serve as this official chaperone and coterie leader for Miss Whatever. We look forward to his reports.

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AUTHOR'S NOTES:

For Sunday, September 8, Day 252 of the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge

366 WORDS (without A/N)

Accompaniment photo was not AI-generated, so the winner was not.

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THIS CHALLENGE MARCHES ON, 366 BEAUTIES AT A TIME.

There are currently three surviving, drilling, pageantry Vocal celebrities still parading in the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge:

• L.C. Schäfer, (the "Shäfering Shaferer)

• Rachel Deeming (the Rachel Demmed Dreamer)

• Gerard DiLeo (proud father of FeeBeeLee DeeLee and Slimbo Jumbo)