# Your biggest, non-entertainment industry related crush? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064 "2008-05-29T19:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/81 "2008-10-01T01:36:36Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > _yes_, yes she does; very much so. [Wow.](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Larissa+Kelly&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2) Oh. My. God. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/82 "2008-10-01T04:39:21Z")
Vladimir Putin. Don’t ask me to explain, because I don’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/83 "2008-10-01T05:18:28Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > [Kyra Phillips](http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/phillips.kyra.html), although I prefer her hair shorter, if for no other reason then her [sense of humor](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/30/cnns-kyra-phillips-jokes_n_84113.html). Monday night, [Erica Hill](http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/hill.erica.html) was talking with Anderson Cooper, about some woman who’d written him saying that he was the most wonderful thing ever, and Erica said, “She loves you” in a sing-song junior high school voice that made me feel tingly. Her or [Jennifer Eccleston](http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/eccleston.jennifer.html), (crappy picture of her) who manages to look fetching when she’s all smudged and the desert wind is whipping her hair all over the place. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/84 "2008-10-01T05:50:42Z")
> [@bbs2k](#): > > Not personally, but I’ve seen a number of women (and oh so inclined men) on this board admit an attraction to [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad](http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/MahmoudAhmadinejadD300.jpg). > > Hubba hubba. Yes, including this so-inclined man. But you know, sometimes when you have a crush on someone, you have to overlook some of the things you know about them. But it’s really hard to overlook \*\*\*everything \*\*\*you know about them. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/85 "2008-10-02T22:36:37Z")
Um, I’ll admit it. I have a tiny bit of a crush on Obama. But I mean, really. He’s [kinda](http://files.meetup.com/373491/Barack%20Obama%20'08%20Desktop%20Wallpaper.jpg)[hot](http://savagepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/windowslivewritersmokeemifyougotem-12634obama-smoking2.png), [dontcha think](http://www.missxpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/michelle1.jpg)? **ETA** : I think it’s his voice that does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/86 "2008-10-03T12:48:37Z")
I’ll take Joe Biden. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/87 "2008-10-03T13:15:38Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Am I insane, or could this thread not been taken seriously without a mention of [Maureen Dowd](http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/1015dowd.jpg)? Aside from the physical, I’ve always thought of her as one of the celebrities most likely to be a closet Doper—which ratchets the attractiveness up to 11. You took one of mine – even at age 55, [Maureen is still quite](http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2006/11/dowd_maureen.jpg) [the fetching redhead](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/images/2008/06/23/maureendowd.jpg). I think [J.K. Rowling is quite attractive](http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/image0011.jpg) … not at the Princess-of-Sweden level, but J.K. has what? 30 years on the princess? I’d love to see shots of Ms. Rowling from when she was in her 20s. In the realm of politicians and world leaders, I always though the late [Benazir Bhutto](http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_04/010bhuttosplit_468x524.jpg) was sublime. She really aged well, perhaps looking better in her 40s than in her college days. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/88 "2008-10-03T13:16:49Z")
So long as I get to keep the sound off… Sarah Palin. Or Condoleeza Rice. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/89 "2008-10-03T18:29:06Z")
If authors do indeed count, I’ll take [Caleb Carr](http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/assets/images/Authors/CarrCaleb.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064/90 "2008-10-04T05:48:45Z")
> [@jk1245](#): > > Well, crap, if you’re gonna allow newscasters, there’s French newsreader [Melissa Theuriau](http://images.askmen.com/galleries/model/melissa-theuriau/pictures/melissa-theuriau-picture-6.jpg) and then there’s the rest. That’s who I was going to say, so instead, let me mention author [Donna Tartt](http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/bats-are-brushing-against-your-legs/) (_A Secret History_, _The Little Friend_), [Susanna Clarke](http://www.bloomsbury.com/media/susanna_clarke_01.jpg) (_Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell_), and, dare I say (I guess this is cheating) [Joyce Carol Oates](http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/oat0-034) if only I were 25 years older or she were 25 years younger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-non-entertainment-industry-related-crush/451064.md?page=4)