# Humiliating and Ridiculous Celebrity Crushes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2001, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367 "2001-05-14T02:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/61 "2001-05-16T04:17:25Z")
Jeannie, I’m with you–I have a seriously unhealthy obsession with Heath Ledger. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![Daemon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Daemon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daemon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/62 "2001-05-16T04:23:57Z")
Now there’s a crush that will kill ya’… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/63 "2001-05-16T06:22:29Z")
I don’t count this as embarrassing, but Sat. night I was watching **Brazil** with a friend, and abruptly stated, “I’d do Michael Palin in a heartbeat”. ---
**Author:** ![Daemon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Daemon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daemon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/64 "2001-05-16T07:11:28Z")
'Nuff said… ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/65 "2001-05-16T07:28:15Z")
**Daemon** , it is not the fact that we are “golddiggers” it is the fact that we find these people genuinely attractive. Of course, I would not know who the people I find attractive were unless they were famous, but I digress. I will not turn this into a debate, but I just wanted to clarify the situation(unless someone here _is_ a golddigger, then I apologize). ---
**Author:** ![Daemon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Daemon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daemon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/66 "2001-05-16T08:05:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\ ***Daemon** , it is not the fact that we are “golddiggers” it is the fact that we find these people genuinely attractive. Of course, I would not know who the people I find attractive were unless they were famous, but I digress. I will not turn this into a debate, but I just wanted to clarify the situation(unless someone here _is_ a golddigger, then I apologize). \*\* Huh? What the fuck are you talking about? Did anyone else understand this? Golddigging is OK if the unlucky SOB is famous or attractive?? Now I AM confused! ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/67 "2001-05-16T08:17:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daemon \* > \*\*Huh? What the fuck are you talking about? Did anyone else understand this? Golddigging is OK if the unlucky SOB is famous or attractive?? > \*\* What she is pointing out is that these celebrity crushes have nothing to do with how much money the celebs make–it has to do with how attractive they are. Not a less shallow measurement by any means but we never claimed we weren’t shallow. She simply points out that were it not for the fame of these individuals, we would probably never see them–because of the exposure. However, I maintain that many (if not most) of the posters in this thread would find their crush just as attractive if he/she happened to be a “regular” person–a bank teller, a grocery bagger, etc. Anyway, I thought you’re “golddiggers” comment was about Bonnie Bakley, not the posters in this thread. Guess I misunderstood. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/68 "2001-05-16T08:18:30Z")
Or “your” comment, even. Sheesh–I need sleep! ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/69 "2001-05-16T08:24:37Z")
I misunderstood everything! Just tell me to go to bed. It is too late for me, I guess. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/70 "2001-05-16T14:00:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dlgirl \* > \*\*Who is that delicious looking man? I don’t blame you for having a crush on him. Is there something I should know? > Yummy!::smilie, licking lips:: \*\* Bwahahahhaha…and so it begins. The great rammstein conversion of the SDMB…I will turn all of you yet! but hands off. He’s mine. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/71 "2001-05-16T14:52:43Z")
Well it was never a crush but there was humiliation. (so I know you guys will love it) I am a straight male. Back during the heyday of 90210 (a show I really didn’t watch) I has a wierd dream where in me and Luke Perry were just hanging around like best buds. There was nothing sexual about the dream. We rode horses in the surf, we watched a flock of birds take off, we drove through a tunnel…that sort of thing. The next day I made the mistake of telling some friends that I had a dream about Luke Perry and then the humiliation kicked in, big time. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/72 "2001-05-16T15:09:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*There was nothing sexual about the dream. \*\* We rode horses in the surf, we watched a flock of birds take off, we drove through a tunnel…that sort of thing. The next day I made the mistake of telling some friends that I had a dream about Luke Perry and then the humiliation kicked in, big time. emphasis mine. [stifled laughter]pffffff[/laughter] [sub]dude, Zebra’s gay![/sub] 😃 I understand that though. The humiliation. I actually had that dream a few days ago. Well, a dream where I was on a DATE with BEN freaking Affleck. And that would be fine except… I don’t give an iguana’s throat fan about Ben Affleck. I’ve never said I thought he was cute, I think I’ve seen ONE movie with him in it, and he’s just a non-entity. Is it possible that the hype machine behind Pearl Harbor is insinuating itself into my dreams? Icky. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/73 "2001-05-16T16:19:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by evilbeth \* > \*\*Jeannie, I’m with you–I have a seriously unhealthy obsession with Heath Ledger. Yummy! \*\* Jeannie and evilbeth, my best friend just confessed her crush on this guy to me this week. She’s 34, married, and pregnant. Ok, in case anyone didn’t know if, I have a huge crush on Bono and have since the first time I saw him waving that white flag and singing his heart out, all sweaty…what was I saying? OH, yeah. One day many years ago while I was working at the warehouse in which I used to be employed down in Springfield, MO the women started talking about long haired guys. Most of the women were 10-15 years older than me and I was 25 (and married). So they ask me, “Do you like guys with long hair?” So I say, “Well, it depends really on the guy and the hair…” Then they specifically ask about Bono as an example. I never talked about rock music with these women. They listened to country so Bono had never come up before. I don’t know why they used Bono as an example. So, I said, “Oh, Bono! I’d have his babies.” Their jaws all dropped wide open. It was very funny. So I said, “Well, if he wanted me to.” Ok, so I wasn’t embarrassed, but they were! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/74 "2001-05-16T16:56:51Z")
Okay, remember, this is EMBARRASSING crushes here… 1. Lisa Gerritson (she played Rhoda’s daughter on the Mary Tyler Moore show). 2. Back when she lost all the weight, when she came running out wearing those tight jeans and a turtleneck sweater… I thought Oprah looked pretty hot… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/75 "2001-05-17T04:27:48Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I understand that though. The humiliation. I actually had that dream a few days ago. Well, a dream where I was on a DATE with BEN freaking Affleck. And that would be fine except… I don’t give an iguana’s throat fan about Ben Affleck. I’ve never said I thought he was cute, I think I’ve seen ONE movie with him in it, and he’s just a non-entity. > > Is it possible that the hype machine behind Pearl Harbor is insinuating itself into my dreams? Icky. > jarbaby \*\* Dunno, but a few years ago Mr. Rilch and I were on a road trip, during which we visited Fallingwater. (Unique house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufman family of Pittsburgh. Interesting but impractical.) Anyway, this was followed by a shopping trip with MIL, where I tried on a stunning green satin cocktail dress, but couldn’t buy it because my boobs didn’t quite fit into it. So that night I had a dream in which I was in the living room at Fallingwater, wearing the green frock and standing by the bar… …while Jack Scalia stood on the steps and chucked ice cubes into my cleavage. 😕 Don’t know where that came from. Never watched his show; saw him in promos and thought he was pretty tasty, but wasn’t motivated to follow up on that. Told Mr. Rilch and his mates, not fearing their teasing, in the hopes that they might uncover the hidden meaning. Unfortunately, the only conclusion drawn was that I was “watching too much UPN”. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/76 "2001-05-17T14:13:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*[[stifled laughter]pffffff[/laughter] [sub]dude, Zebra’s gay![/sub] :D. > \*\* The bad this is that is was Luke Perry. Luke Perry?!?! If it was Antonio Banderras, that I could see but Luke Perry? ---
**Author:** ![ObiWan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@ObiWan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ObiWan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/77 "2001-05-17T15:37:13Z")
Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyager is an absolute babe. Despite her being over 20-odd years older than me she is an undoubted goddess! ---
**Author:** ![ObiWan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@ObiWan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ObiWan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/78 "2001-05-17T15:42:54Z")
Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyager is an absolute babe. Despite the fact that she is 20-odd years older than me she is still an undoubted goddess. ---
**Author:** ![ObiWan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@ObiWan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ObiWan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/79 "2001-05-17T16:15:22Z")
Sorry about the multiple posts, the SDMBs seem to grind to a halt at about lunchtime over here\*. I got a “cannot find server” error in IE after I posted and when I checked the board my message was not displayed. Wanting to declare my love for good old Kathryn Janeway for the whole world to see I posted again only to find my orignal post had made it after all - oops. - = I guess it’s all our friends across the pond waking up. ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367/80 "2001-05-17T17:44:38Z")
My housemate and I used to argue about which of us got Lucy Lawless (Xena) and which got Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully). I chose Scully, 'cause I figured I could lure Xena away with my superior manliness and impressive sword collection. And that was in my late twenties. I have a long history of being pathetic, though – when I was a teen I had the biggest crush on Molly Ringworm. I watched the scene of her dancing in The Breakfast Club over and over and over…sheesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humiliating-and-ridiculous-celebrity-crushes/65367.md?page=5)