# Stupid crushes on people you'll never meet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180 "2011-04-13T01:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/1 "2011-04-13T01:43:28Z")
I have a pointless crush on Emily Brewster, an associate editor at [www.merriam-webster.com](http://www.merriam-webster.com). She contributes to the little “Ask the Editor” usage or grammar question videos that appear on the site, and does so extremely … uh … competently. _ahem_ I never miss a one. I didn’t used to think that I had a thing for the stereotypical hot librarian… [Sample linky](http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0016-than.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/2 "2011-04-13T02:26:55Z")
Ira Glass, host of _This American Life_. He’s genuinely curious about everyone he interviews (or at least has the decency to fake it), he’s witty and he knows how to make fun of himself. He totally charms me every show. ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/3 "2011-04-13T03:07:39Z")
Lindsey Deluce [http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20090713/320\_cp24\_lindsy\_deluce.jpg](http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20090713/320_cp24_lindsy_deluce.jpg) is an anchor for a Toronto based news channel. I swear if it wasn’t for her I’d be even more clueless than I already am about current events! ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/4 "2011-04-13T03:20:03Z")
[Nicole Kidman](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9UxHwUfG2qQ/THFZ1R197lI/AAAAAAAACSQ/jVMZxK_B9nU/s1600/nicole-kidman.jpg&imgrefurl=http://world-famous-people.blogspot.com/2010/08/nicole-kidman.html&usg=__w-QoP5NiJJxWxFEz0s2altTE4gM=&h=545&w=460&sz=21&hl=en&start=49&zoom=1&tbnid=ips2OdU6x3Sv7M:&tbnh=155&tbnw=117&ei=uBWlTfaxBcnqObGvvMsJ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnicole%2Bkidman%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D624%26tbm%3Disch0%2C1140&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=771&vpy=249&dur=9739&hovh=244&hovw=206&tx=119&ty=116&oei=7BSlTfqVL4qV0QGI4sTHCA&page=3&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:21,s:49&biw=1366&bih=624) ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/5 "2011-04-13T03:21:41Z")
[Suzanne Leonard](http://www.pentictonherald.ca/includes/CP_stories/150/150226.jpg), one of the afternoon anchors on The Weather Network. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/6 "2011-04-13T03:30:35Z")
Linda Ellerbee ------ only good thing I found during the Iranian Hostage thing. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/7 "2011-04-13T04:46:02Z")
As a teenager, it was Carl Sagan. His brain was soooo sexy. Tom Brokaw and Robert Reich. And strangely enough, that bad boy, Shan Yu, the Hun leader, from the Disney movie ‘Mulan’. You did say _stupid_ crushes right? ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/8 "2011-04-13T04:48:15Z")
Young [Graham Chapman.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Graham_Chapman_Portrait.png) Three things working against me: 1. He’s nearly 50 years my senior 2. He’s gay 3. He’s dead. The ultimate of stupid crushes. And yet, there it is. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/9 "2011-04-13T05:06:15Z")
Probably the now none-existent band Sleater-Kinny. All I’m saying is given the chance I would have an orgy with the band, instruments and all. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/10 "2011-04-13T05:21:48Z")
It’s not stupid, because he’s awesome, but it’s to the extent where it makes _me_ stupid. A-durrr. [Mike Holmes](http://www.watchdognation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mike-holmes.jpg). Mm, look at him. _Look at him_. And, yes, he’s competent. Sigh. I love him. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/11 "2011-04-13T05:29:27Z")
[Anderson Cooper](http://handson.provocateuse.com/show/anderson_cooper/01) ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/12 "2011-04-13T08:41:38Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > [Mike Holmes](http://www.watchdognation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mike-holmes.jpg). Mm, look at him. _Look at him_. And, yes, he’s competent. Sigh. I love him. I see your Mike Holmes and raise you one [Scott McGillivray](http://www.hgtv.com/scott-mcgillivray/bio/index.html) with his big doofy perfect Canadian smile and his aboots and his ruffs and his washrooms. And yes, with the competence. Why are the Canadians so competent? What’s in the water up there? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/13 "2011-04-13T10:12:13Z")
I have to say mine would be Sergeant Ashleigh Bryant, a Marine who currently works as a reporter on the Pentagon Channel, one of several television channels produced by the US military for broadcast to the troops overseas. I dunno, she’s very cute. Also, the Marine service uniforms tend to be rather flattering for the females compared to the Air Force blues. [A pretty recent clip I found online](http://player.theplatform.com/ps/player/pds/PVZ32iOKjb?pid=lLGYwYoJ7hqQ7yWmZVcnH0GxPBmC0kQr) [Here’s one from 2009](http://www.dvidshub.net/video/67729/wartime-contracting-panel-cor-class-look-live) [And here’s a clip with her in the tan uniform.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rkW4q3_Nww&feature=player_embedded) ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/14 "2011-04-13T10:30:29Z")
\*\*Elizabeth Shue \*\*c.1988 (i.e. when she was in _Cocktail_). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/15 "2011-04-13T11:18:46Z")
Russell Crowe has long held the top spot for me and I cannot tell you exactly why. Maybe because he isn’t too pretty and he doesn’t play the Hollywood Game. Dunno. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/16 "2011-04-13T11:47:25Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > Young [Graham Chapman.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Graham_Chapman_Portrait.png) > > Three things working against me: > > 1. He’s nearly 50 years my senior > 2. He’s gay > 3. He’s dead. > > The ultimate of stupid crushes. And yet, there it is. Wendy Cope wrote a [poem](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/10/im-with-wendy-cope-when-she-says/) about that feeling. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/17 "2011-04-13T13:54:40Z")
I have a wickedly stupid crush on one of the Deadliest Catch boys, and I will not reveal who, but I don’t think it’s that stupid, because most of those guys are crazy bad-asses (with a few utter tools thrown into the mix). ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/18 "2011-04-13T14:16:25Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I have a pointless crush on Emily Brewster, an associate editor at [www.merriam-webster.com](http://www.merriam-webster.com). She contributes to the little “Ask the Editor” usage or grammar question videos that appear on the site, and does so extremely … uh … competently. > _ahem_ > > I never miss a one. > > I didn’t used to think that I had a thing for the stereotypical hot librarian… > > [Sample linky](http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0016-than.htm). Aaaannnnd.. Spank Bank. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/19 "2011-04-13T20:14:55Z")
Claire Robinson from the Food Network. I watch her show all the time, I believe it’s called “Woah, that hot chick is cooking something or whatever, damn son.” ---
**Author:** ![Jennmonkye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jennmonkye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennmonkye)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180/20 "2011-04-13T21:48:20Z")
The whole cast of the [Big Bang Theory.](http://http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/movie/tv_the_big_bang_theory03.jpg) Sigh. What can I say? I’m almost forty and have a thing for the nerdy ones. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-crushes-on-people-youll-never-meet/578180.md?page=2)