A) Valerie Bertinelli. The reason I bought my first VCR. What an absolute dreamboat. I even wrote to her and got an autographed picture, though I thought it best to discard it before getting married.
B) The only one I can think of was Chrissy Evert. In her young days, she was quite the dish.
C) No, not really.
D) Dawn Rude. Of course, the cheerleader and most popular. In the glory days of the miniskirt, to be in high school with her! To her, I was good for helping with math problems, but that was about it.
E) Sharon Snapp, my fellow cook in the dorm. If only I could have somehow caught her between boyfriends. Cleaning the griddle surface with her was an erotic adventure. Standing side by side, we’d rest our hands on the griddle cleaners and thrust forward and back on the surface, all the while thrusting our loins up against the warm front of the griddle. To do this next to someone you fancy, and doing it while becoming more and more aroused and as she slowly builds up a sensual glisten of sweat, well you’d just have to be there. Cleaning the grills with any of the females was a treat, but with Sharon it was virtual sex.
A) None. Closest thing would be Geena Davis. I think she’s cute, and I like seeing her in movies, but not to the point of buying DVDs or joining a fan club or anything. OTOH, my wife has definitely noticed, and she’s amused.
B) None. I’ve seen any number of female athletes I’d drool over, but again, not to the point of … well, learning any of their names.
C) None. I thought my second-grade teacher, Miss Wallace, was pretty cute, though. Well, she was 20 years younger than all the other teachers. I don’t really see this “age-appropriate stuff,” though. My first engagement was to a woman 20 years my senior.
D) None. There some very, very pretty girls at my high school, but I think I hated all of them. I got kind of silly pestering a girl at a Junior Achievement banquet, but that was just one evening. And I guess there was a girl in my Freshman Chemistry class who was pretty hot, and whom I flirted with (clumsily) for a little while before getting discouraged.
E. None. I went out with almost all of the few girls who liked me, and it’s kind of a knee-jerk reaction to hate people who despise me.
I guess bitterness and cynicism have a way of crushing …er, crushes.
Tara Strong. Great Gods in heaven, that woman is talented. And not half bad looking, the few times you happen to actually see her (since she’s mostly a voice actor, that’s not often.).
Between grovelling admiration of her sheer talent, and the fact that several of the voices she does (Rikku and Raven) make me weak in the knees, she leaves me in a gibbering heap at times.
A) Well, only physically, but: Drew Barrymore, Sung Hi Lee, Heather Carolin
B) None.
C) Discounting friends online, none.
D) Sharon M. is the girl across the street, known her for ten years, prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. She was in my class for a few years but goes to a different school now. We talk sometimes, but I get special enjoyment out of wondering how or when I can finally tell her how beautiful she is.
And finally
E) Maureen D. So infatuated with each other we never told each other so until she transferred schools. Her parents made it impossible to keep any contact.
A) Celebrities: Too many to name, really. My current major crushes are Nicole de Boer, Linda Park (both Trek actresses), Michelle Branch and Edward Norton. Tiffany Thiessen gets an honorable mention as my childhood crush.
B) Public Figures: Isn’t this the same as celebrities? Since you included models, I’ll have to go with Cindy Crawford. Growing up in the 80s and early 90s, she was inescapable and I doubt anyone wanted to.
C) Older women: Don’t really know what you would consider older. I didn’t have any huge crushes on women growing up… most were age appropiate - and now that I’m 22, any woman that’s over 18 is fair game so long as they’re interested as well.
To play along though - Mrs. Akiona, my sophomore english teacher. I was 16 and she was maybe 21 at the time. God, I loved her. Still do, actually. I should try to contact her. As a former student only, obviously.
D) Out of my league: Various Dopers. lilbtagna, Tiburon, karlgrenze, etc.
E) Had a chance with: A few online people but no one in real life so far as I know.
Too many to really name most of them, since I was quite an introvert in my younger years, and a geek to boot. (Still am both of those things.) I read comic books and played video games, and I was often too shy to spend time with my real-life friends or develop real-life crushes. As an example, though, I thought Nightcrawler from the X-Men books was adorable.
I got over this type of thing in college for the most part. Suddenly real men were a possibility, such as the guy who haunted my dreams in my previous post.
1.) Robert Sean Leonard. Back in the days of My Best Friend is a Vampire and Dead Poet’s Society. Well, not back in those days, as I was only about 4 & 6 when those came out, but in those movies. And Amber Benson.
2.) Michael Stipe. And a young Peter Buck. …pretty much all of R.E.M., actually, at one point or another.
3.) I don’t think that I ever really had one. This was likely due mostly to a lack of exposure to inappropriately older males. I once had a crush on a guy who was in 8th grade when I was in 4th grade, but it lasted maybe two weeks, and I can barely remember his name.
4.) My friend Justin. Right age. We were even friends when I had a crush on him (we’re still friends even though I’ve lost the crush). But I wasn’t his type. Hell, I was too shy to even make my intent known, and I’m certain he’s never even considered thinking about me that way. But, oy, that one was there for a good long while.
5.) An online friend of mine. We were friends, and were getting closer and more interested in each other. Unfortunately, I was dating my ex at the time, and managed to screw things up royally between my friend and I without us ever hooking up. Le sigh.
A) John Cusack.
B) Stevie Jackson, the guitarist and occasional vocalist of Belle and Sebastian.
C) Surprisingly, I can’t think of any that I know in real life. I’ve never had much exposure to older men, I guess, except friends of family (ewwwww) and teachers, and I’ve never been able to get over the fact that they’re my teachers.
D) In ninth grade there was a guy in my drama class I liked. He was very much the too cool überactor type. By tenth grade I figured out that he was a pretentious druggy idiot.
E) This one is pretty recent. He’s a guy I know just through a mutual friend. The friend would sometimes bring him to shows and get togethers but I never saw him outside of that, partly because we go to universities in different cities. I actually think he liked me back but I haven’t seen him in months. I don’t know how to get in touch with him (I’m too shy to ask the friend and besides we don’t hang out together as much as we used to) and even if I did he’s probably forgotten me.
A) Chiaki Kuriyama (Gogo Yubari) from Kill Bill Vo. I. Too young, too hot and just too much for me to handle. This is a recent phenomena. I love her with the white hot intensity of yadda yadda yadda.
B)None, off the top of my head.
C)None that I can remember, but I’m sure there were a few.
D)Oh lordy, tons. I was ubergeek in H.S. and every single hot guy I saw drove me nuts with secret longing and desire.
On an older note, my now-husband absolutely fell into this catagory for almost 6 years. I was best friends with his younger sister and I spent a lot of time at her parents’ house. He was tall, handsome, reserved, nice, and the most decent human being I had ever met. He was also dating an alcoholic freak that ignored him most of the time and did I mention I was best friends with his sister, thus setting him off limits forever? I was sure he thought I was insane. After I got back from college, he had dumped the psycho alkie and his sister and I weren’t talking. We ended up at the same rock show one night and one thing led to another…
E)Funny you should ask, I have one right now. He used to come over to my apartment with his older friends and drink (he was 16, the rest of us were 19 - 21). He was such a hottie, but I couldn’t talk myself into having a fling with someone with 2 years of high school left. I thought about locking him up until he matured to a respectible 18 and then ravaging him. Of course, now that I’m married, I’m hanging out with his crowd again and he’s still lookin’ good. We’ve both admitted to our minor crushes on each other and now that its out of the way we’re better friends than ever.
A) Loads. Current crushes are Antonio Banderas, Eddie Izzard, Salma Hayek and Brian Dennehy. And I’m a music freak, so musicians ought to be covered here too: Steven Tyler comes to mind.
B) Hmm. I guess I don’t have one here.
C) Yes, my high school English teacher. I had such a crush on him I attempted to fix him up with my mother. I also have a current (small) crush on my daughter’s English teacher. So maybe I’m just into English teachers.
D) I’ve always had a tendency to fall for gay guys, so I suppose that counts. There’s one who was a childhood friend, and when we were teens I must admit I threw myself at him shamelessly. Fortunately, he was a good sport about it and we’re still very close now.
E) I was the object of this type of crush, and it took me ages of friendship with the guy before I realized he was not thinking of the relationship as a “brother-sister” thing. I don’t think I’ve had a crush of this type.
