Hit List vs Hot List

Ah, the heated topic of any fireside conversation. Okay not really fireside, more like expensive restaurants with good lounge music accompanied by horribly rude waiters.

Ha-ha.

Okay look, this topic actually popped up quite recently while i was having an engaging conversation with an ex, and i slipped and said that the girl I had a thing for wasn't on my hit list.

She heard wrongly, and asked me, "Why isn't she on your hot list?"

Huh? I said hit list not hot list.

She thought i was being coy, and asked me to define the difference between Hit and Hot.

Damn, i hate being under the spotlight. Lol. So in that short period of time, I formulated what I, in my weirdly skewed perspective, viewed to be the difference between these two words which ends and begins with the same letter(s).

So here for the world to see, is a guide for what I find to be the difference between Hit & Hot

HIT LIST

1. Connection. That is what makes a girl jump straight from just being hot (hot is not a pre-condition for BEAUTY..hot could just simply be...hot), to being definately primed for a drive-by hitting.
2. Substance. She has to have more than just good looks on her books. Her gray matter, matters. The conversations matter so much more than the boob tube she has on.
3. Elegance. She knows how to carry herself. Knows how to pronounce dishes on the menu without making a fool of herself, or the man she's dating. Foie gras....try it...let it roll of your tongue....
4. Commitment. She has to have a history of being a committed girlfriend, with no black marks whatsoever on being scandalous whilst under the influence. Or under her Man.
5. Loving. She can be hard as bones, but when the time comes for her to be a lady, she can and will be. We men don't like having girlfriends who consistently flex their muscles at the dinner table, whilst manhandling a plate of "bloody as hell" Sirloin Steak.

HOT LIST

1. Drop dead gorgeous. The girl has to be undeniably gorgeous, not only to the man who finds her hot, but to his friends as well. Especially his friends.
2. Sensual. Yes, men like girls on their hot list to be as sensuous and as raunchy as this month's Playmate of the Month.
3. Perfect 10. She has to have a body like Sharpova, toned, trim and tanned.
4. Flirty. The girl knows she's hot, therefore the more flirty she is, the better. Men will swoon like monkeys when these HOT girls give them all the attention. Yes we are primates after all.
5. Touchy-feely. Ah, the clincher. This is what makes a hot girl HOT and unlikely to be on HIT. You see men like their hot girls hot, but are unlikely to end up dating them. Don't get me wrong, hot girls aren't sluts per se, neither are they skanky, but HOT girls are usually just for 'dating' purposes only.

I must iron out at this point that this is a guide and nothing more. I'm not saying that all HOT girls will always end up being on the reserve stands to be paraded like a trophy, but it's just that HOT isn't always a main criteria.

Some hot girls do end up becoming hit girls if they play their cards right, and lucky is the man who finds such a girl.

Some hit girls end up just being hot girls because the chemistry goes away after the 2nd date.

It happens.

All in all, we men have different versions of how we view the women we date or would LOVE to date. And that's why I'd love to hear from my co-writers on this matter.

Hee. :)