Personal Top Lists & Rankings

There were definitely some adventure elements involved—mostly because I was barely sober half the time. I managed to lose a ton of gear and ended up trekking on foot at 4 AM from downtown all the way to the suburb and once out to the mine.😁

Marathon runner, obviously.😁
You really should have just kept going straight all the way to that adventure park in Chicago instead... 🤣

By the way, we're definitely overdoing it with all this walking. Seriously...
😁

Anyway, regarding 😁

My top 5 sneaker brands:

1. Circa
2. DC
3. Airwalk
4. Ethnies
5. Vans

My top 7 childhood candy hits (ranked by how fast they vanished from school birthday parties)...

1. Nerds
2. Airheads
3. Sour Patch Kids
4. Skittles
5. Those hexagonal menthol drops
6. Silk peppermint candies with chocolate centers
7. Some hard, square caramel-lemon things I can't even remember the name of

...followed by my top 5 gums:

1. Extra
2. Bazooka
3. Bubble-Double
4. Those coin-shaped gums
5. Cigarette-shaped bubblegum (so cool)

Carol Jackson45 said:5. cigarette-shaped bubblegum (so cool)

I remember bringing some to school back in third grade—they were wrapped in colored paper to look just like real cigarettes. A friend of mine saw them and spent half an hour lecturing me about being too young for smoking. 😁

Anyway, my top 5 favorite ways to get around:

1. Plane
2. Ship
3. Train
4. Walking
5. Ski lift

My top 5 basketball strengths

1 fanatic defense
2 boxing out for rebounds
3 setting screens
4 being nearly impossible to push around
5 post moves

Top 5 weaknesses

1 lack of speed
2 poor rebounding numbers
3 missing easy layups
4 zero dribbling skills
5 can't hit corner threes

God, making lists like this is incredibly tedious. 🙄

hollowangler68 said:I remember bringing them into school back in the day—somewhere around third grade—and they were all wrapped up in this colored paper meant to look like actual packs. One of my classmates saw me and just started losing it for half an hour, asking if I was out of my mind, why on earth would I be carrying cigarettes at that age. 😁

Does anyone else vividly remember those old German lessons from elementary school?

student: Who wants cigarettes (or something along those lines)
Mr. Miller: Who has cigarettes?
student: gum cigarettes Mr. Miller!

Anyway, here are my top four funniest things about those middle school foreign language textbooks:

1. That endless loop of "I'm Sandy. This is Bill. My friend Bill. Hello!" and ten more variations just like it.
2. "They are drinking hot lemonade," right after someone takes a massive gulp.
3. The frantic "HURRY UP!" shouted by the woman on the cassette tape. 🙂
4. That obnoxious "PEEEEEEEEP" sound during the Listen and Repeat exercises.

Top 5 current American bands:

1. Drumroll
2. Exxon
3._________
4._________
5._________( this scene is a joke...😠 )

Top 5 band tees I should've bought but didn't

1. Bearsuit—the one with the yellow bear
2. Trans Am—from the concert
3. Yo La Tengo
4. Zu-sa satarom
5. Faust—industrial terrorist

My top 5 Mayas that I missed out on...

1. The Maya from downtown Chicago
2. The Maya from next door
3. The Maya from elementary school
4. Maya Ruznaja
5. Maya's Maya with the cleavage and the camera

top 5 things I hate about women:

1. Mustaches
2. "Fashion"
3. "Style"
4. Being "diet" or skipping meals
5. The music they "listen to"😁

Top 5 musical instruments

1. Pedal steel
2. Theremin
3. Drums
4. Computer
5. Flute

.....just a quick list without much thought...

Samuel Murphy6 said:By the way, here are the top 4 most ridiculous things found in elementary school foreign language textbooks:

And then there's Manfred studying to be a Machinist... 🙏 🙏 🙏

Kevin Chavez3 said:Wait, you mean Manfred is actually studying to become a Machine Lock technician?! 🙏 🙏 🙏

Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue.

Kevin Chavez3 said:Wait, Manfred studying to be a Machinist? 🙏 🙏 🙏

That’s elementary school stuff. Manfred was also in middle school.
Manfred was alone at home. Manfred in the countryside. Manfred whatever...😳

And what was the name of that idiot who used to make airplane models? Was that also Manfred, god bless him?

My top 3 highlights from school:
1. When I couldn't pronounce Airplane model and told the professor it was just a stupid, unpronounceable word.
2. When I claimed starfish eat sand.
3. When I said viruses in your brain have kids.

My top 5 biggest wins:
1. Sneaking my finished physics homework onto the teacher's desk.
2. For a German assignment about "the world of electronic images," I copied a whole text out of a book about American agricultural development between the World Wars.
3. Sitting in a circle during a logic exam because "that's how we always sit."

So, did none of you actually take any Italian classes?😢

My top three most idiotic ways to wake up:
1) In a bathtub, realizing your parents are scrubbing you down after finding you passed out in a ditch three blocks from home—after they spent half a day hunting for you.
2) On a diving platform about 50 yards out at sea, fully dressed in evening wear—bone DRY—with zero clue how you got there or how to get back without ruining the suit (ended up hitching a ride on a jet ski passing by).
3) In a sleeping bag in a hotel parking lot, wedged between cars and nearly getting run over—even though the night before, you were dead certain you’d found the perfect hiding spot in the woods behind the hotel.

Author's note: One of these didn't happen to me—it was a friend.

redcrane28.... 🙏 🤣
My top 10 favorite forum members:
1. idoteque
2. stressee
3. houpi
4. Kevin Chavez3
5. punkpen
6. deathless
7. kruska
8. Carol Jackson45
9. germa
10. vočko 🙂
They aren't necessarily in order... My apologies if I missed anyone; you are all dear to me.😉

Cut out the dramatic emo act. 😬

Well... I had a bit of an emotional moment there 😬
But I'm back to my usual self now 😁

redcrane28 said:Here is my personal top three list of the absolute dumbest ways to wake up:
1) In a bathtub, realizing your parents are actually scrubbing you down because they finally found you passed out in a ditch three blocks away after searching for half a day.
2) On a diving platform about 50 yards out from the shore, fully dressed in evening wear—completely DRY—with absolutely no clue how you got there or how you're supposed to get back without shredding your suit (which, thankfully, ended up being solved by hitching a ride on a jet ski passing by).
3) Inside a sleeping bag in a hotel parking lot, wedged between cars and nearly getting run over, even though just the night before you were totally convinced you had found the perfect hiding spot in the woods behind the hotel.

😂 🤣

The absolute best performers to clear a room while making sure I'm actually having a good time:

1. pre-Brix Fall, though ideally Dragnet
2. Mr Quintron
3. Jon Wayne
4. some unidentified Algerian pop track from an old cassette tape
5. Klaus Nomi