"Top 50 List" To Return in 2015

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I have to clear up something I made a couple of entries ago. There was a comment on my Facebook post regarding a "Top 50 List" that I used to make, and that it had something to do with girls. I had a lot of inquiries as to what in the world this list was all about from people that I didn't go to school with.

Yes, I did make a Top 50 List from 6th grade to 8th grade.

I look back and consider this list-making a very stupid idea.

This was a list of girls in my class at Challand that I had a crush on, in order. The biggest misconception that everyone kept making about the list was that it was a meter-of-hotness, which is simply not true. Whoever was No. 1 was the girl I liked at that time, with No. 2 being the girl next-in-line if something happened with No. 1, and so on down to No. 50.

It was all my personal opinion, and not to be reflective of the other boys of SHS '05. However, some girls thought otherwise.

I'm told that catfights and shouting matches have occured and perhaps even some blood has been bled over who's where on the list. (On a related note, I'd really like to know who engaged in fighting and shouting between girls over me).

Throughout the history of the Top 50 List, only 8 girls ever reached #1. An additional 5 girls reached as high as #2. Translation: I had crushes on 8 girls off and on throughout middle school.

Over the years I've had both compliments and complaints. For example, one girl was especially proud to be No. 6 (in my final list) and made a note of it while signing my 8th grade yearbook. Several boys wondered why I put certain girls (ones they called "ugly") higher than what they thought. That's because I look at many, many different things when figuring out a No. 1 - and this line of thinking would be the predecessor to what I call the "Cody Test" of finding a perfect match.

Here's how it started:  Our 6th grade class would have a ninth-hour study hall, and when I was bored I would write these fictional spy series stories on the front and back of a single looseleaf paper. On one day that I was talking to many girls over who was cuter, I ran out of ideas for spy stories and started doodling a list of 10 girls. Amber was No. 1. Since those sitting around me were interested in reading my spy stories, they were interested in other things I was writing about. Just so happened that this Top 10 list was the talk of the entire 6th grade. Since it was becoming popular, I expanded the List to 50 girls.

I can't remember the exact order of who was No. 1 when, except for the first list and the last list.

I stopped writing the Top 50 list on a regular basis (which was whenever I darn well felt like it) in the first couple of months of 8th grade. Four things contributed to the demise of the Top 50 list: 1) The No. 1 at the time hated being No. 1 and chewed me out, 2) One girl that had just moved here was scared that such a list was being made, 3) One of my Top 5 "mini" lists had been found by a teacher, 4) I was beginning to find out that Rock Falls girls were SO much better that what was the point in doing a list anyway?

When I ended the Top 50 list, I had posted an online version on my personal website. This was back when having your own website was the "cool" fad to undertake; most used Expage while I used GeoCities. It's funny: more than 10 years later, I still have some sort of personal online presence (in the form of this blog).

The only other time the Top 50 List made a comeback was the last days of my senior year. This was a private list that I didn't show anyone at first. This was considered by "All-Time Top 50" and the only person that has looked at it was my All-Time No. 1.

I had considered writing an abberviated form of a list for our 5-Year Class Reunion, but wound up not doing it.

So I will be bringing back the Top 50 List for our 10-Year Class Reunion in 2015. This list will consist of members of SHS '05 and other high school classmates over the years that either graduated early or dropped out.

It will have been 10 years since I last made a Top 50 List. Many things have changed. Who will be No. 1 in 2015? Even though I mentioned earlier that I think this is a stupid idea, I'll simply bring it back for old-time's sake.