In yet another sign that Hungary may have finally become unspoofable, our joke back in late 2006 about a “Miss Plastic Hungary” beauty contest has finally come true. Via a lighthearted piece by Reuters we got wind of an apparently genuine “Miss Plastic Hungary” contest scheduled to take place this October in Budapest, which the newswire hints is the first pageant of its kind in the world.
While the piece quotes the contest organizers as saying that only recipients of surgery serious enough to merit general or local anesthesia can compete, it never gets around to saying exactly what makes for a plastic beauty queen. Does someone who was once really ass-ugly but is now only so-so thanks to a major round of knife work beat someone who was already pretty hot before she had a few millimeters shaved off her nose, or a few centimeters added to her chest? Also left unanswered is why the second runner-up gets a “Kenyan dream vacation for two,” when what she obviously needs is more plastic surgery.
