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From the deck of the Norwegian Jewel. Click for live pic.

A beautiful girl named Melania Knauss, whose father was Austrian and mother was Slovene, but who was born in what-was-then Yugoslavia, and who married an American, was recently selected to act as godmother of the Norwegian Jewel. It’s a $400 million, nearly 100,000-ton cruise ship that was built in Miami, but sails in the Caribbean and Mediterranean. Despite the name, it doesn’t go anywhere near Norway. Or even Scandinavia.

So why Melania? What’s the connection? Why not pick a Norwegian model? Like Aylar Lie, for example. It’s true that Ms. Lie was actually born in Iran, but she competed in the Miss Norway 2004 competition. She didn’t win — but only because someone discovered her filmography, which includes such overlooked-by-the-academy stuff as "Throat Gaggers 2" and "Breakin’ ‘Em In 3." The hard-hearted judges, ignoring John 8:7, promptly disqualified her. She could’ve been a contender, though, she could’ve been somebody. Instead she had to go home, disgraced, and lie in bed, and think of things that might have been.

And when you think about it, with all the free time she has, she’d be able to fully devote herself to her cruise-ship godmothering duties. Whatever those are.

Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 to Slovenia

Comments

  • 1

    Ripping stuff! Exactly what keeps us coming back to TGoC:
    Scandinavian slatterns, short-fingered vulgarian billionaires,
    ex-Yugoslavian family trees, Miami-built luxury liners, Brando,  reference to stonings… You’ve really
    outdone yourself, Michael.But with all this linking goodness, was it truly not possible to work passing mention of Spela and/or
    Spelca into this post? It seems you’re slip-sliding away. 

         by sgazzetti on January 11, 2006 at 8:34 am

  • 2

    It seems you’re slip-sliding away.I blame sleep deprivation. Plus all the heroin I’ve been shooting lately.

         by Michael M. on January 11, 2006 at 8:54 am

  • 3

    Aylar Lie, godmother of a cruise ship, stuck out at sea and out of fuel, the passengers (who happen to be competitors from europe on their way to a wet t-shirt competition in Hawaii) all know that chances of survival are slim, so they decide that they’ll make the most of it and have some fun. I think I’ve just come up with the scene, setting, and idea for Aylar Lie’s comeback film. Come on all of you budding directors out there, make it happen. Please.

         by mesni-sir on January 11, 2006 at 9:24 am

  • 4

    Note to self: "Must get Throat Gaggers 2 and Breakin’ ‘Em In 3."Thanks for the useful info Michael.
      

         by Aurokuror on January 11, 2006 at 10:18 am

  • 5

    What a good sport she is! ;)

         by bazz on January 11, 2006 at 11:10 am

  • 6

    oooj and she didn’t even have to be a victim of human trafficking to be in those ‘films’!

         by Katja on January 15, 2006 at 9:54 pm

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