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07/21/2008: "You're So Fine, You're a Nine-One-Nine ..."
Guys have been looking at girls for as long as there have been eyes, and we've been rating them for just about as long. Most of us are old enough to remember the movie "10" and the rating system on which it is based - heck, there are even songs about it. But like most things, over time this 10-point rating system needed an overhaul. Fortunately, the guys over at Put Up Your Dukes have it all figured out.
Their system - which, although I refer to as "their", they admit they picked up in a bar - is the "area code" system. You know area codes - those three-digit abominations you have to include in long-distance calls (and all calls in areas like SoCal where we have overlays). They use a similar code to describe women, which presumably not only gives them much more flexibility in the rating but also is much less likely to get you slapped by a 6.
Okay, here is how it works. Every human being on the planet can be adequately described using a three-digit number (i.e. area code). The first digit denotes the rating of how attractive the face is (0-9). The second digit describes whether you would sleep with that person or not (0=no, 1=yes). And finally, the third digit describes how attractive the person's body is (0-9). It's a discrete and yet simple way to judge others in public without actually meeting them.
They include several examples, which I may or may not agree with. I will say that I didn't need a new rating system to tell me that Rosie O'Donnell would be at the bottom of the scale.
It's also interesting to see that their blog, which only started on July 9, already had 58,828 hits - mostly due to the press on this very topic. The MB, on the other hand, has 26,040 after two years, demonstrating that this is just one more thing at which I suck. Of course, I'm sure that all four of you could have told me that already.
