Inappropriate crushes I had when I was young

[moominmolly]

William Weaver,
Will Shortz,
John Cleese.

You?

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[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Johnny Carson

[freshwater-pr0n.livejournal.com]

woody allen. like woah.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Bernadette Peters.

[mickeymao.livejournal.com]

Have you heard Randy Kaplan's (http://www.randykaplan.com/) excellent song (http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/rkaplan5-07.m3u) about (having a crush on) her?

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

I hadn't, but now I have.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

When I was five, it was Debbie Harry.
When I was sixteen, it was Harriet Wheeler (from the Sundays).

-flashback time while I'm at my parents' house, Dante

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

i totally crushed on john cleese, too.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Corey Haim.

[cos]

I've never had a well developed sense of appropriateness, so I wouldn't know which of my crushes were inappropriate. In fact, I'm not sure why your three are, either.

What about a crush on you, would that be appropriate or not? :)

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

(what makes a crush inappropriate?)

i had a crush on my (gorgeous, female) 4th grade teacher, and i knew that it was different from what the other girls felt for her.

i also had a thing for walter cronkite, in an intellectual sort of way.

when star wars came out, i was the weird one among my cohort who thought that han solo was a lot cooler and better looking than luke...

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Will Shortz? Sheesh. Eugene T. Maleska. Have some dignitas.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Well, no, see, it's because he always wrote the best puzzles in Games Magazine back before it went under that time it went under. And then he RESURFACED! in my world, right when I was doing crosswords all the time. So, the whole NYTimes thing is a bit of a coincidence, or something.

Not that I'm doubting the extreme rulingness of Eugene T. Maleska.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. I was wondering how Shortz could be a crush of your youth when he really didn't come on the scene until college or so.

I can imagine him being a very good Games magazine type. He is certainly diabolical.

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

ooooh! games magazine!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Nita Dee, from the New Mickey Mouse Club.

Later, Boy George.

More recently, Loonette from Big Comfy Couch.

[dnereverri.livejournal.com]

More recently, Loonette from Big Comfy Couch.

Seconded. I *really* want to see what she looks like without the makeup...

Alyson Court

[network.livejournal.com]

http://members.aol.com/bobsmith12345/court.jpg

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I forgot about Boy George. Definitely.

[maighread.livejournal.com]

Jen - the gelfling from the Dark Crystal. (Kira too but not as much as I was crushing over Jen. Whoa boy...)

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about this today, because we're planning to screen The Dark Crystal for my six year old and his ten year old half-sister next weekend. I know I saw the movie when I was about 9... and I clearly remember that my best friend wanted to be Kira, and I wanted to be Jen just so I could kiss her.

Oh, and David Bowie in Labyrinth.

[maighread.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell yes. I can still remember the angst over desperately wanting to be Jennifer Connelly. I even had a baby brother that I was full prepared to sacrifice.

Oh, - and Steve, the first host from Blue's Clues. And Jessica Alba but only from the first half of the first season of Dark Angel. Hot. Phew.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Did anyone not crush on David Bowie in Labyrinth?

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Tom Baker, Q, Niles from Frasier.

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

Peter Davison. That crush came with full-blown fantasies, too...

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Oh, mine too. That was probably the final celebrity crush I acquired.

Before that, in addition to the requisite things for Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Christopher Reeve, I had the ones I'm a little more embarrassed to admit:

* Shaun Cassidy
* the guy who played Jon on CHIPS (whose name I can't even remember)
* Glen Campbell
* Bobby Sherman (I am dating myself, huh?)

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Oh oh and and the judge from Night Court!  Although less full-blown crush and more "Awww, I want to put him in my pocket and pat heem!".

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Night Court? John Larroquette!

(Thanks for the memory jog; for a while there, I thought I would have to sit this one out.)

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

No; Harry Anderson! (http://imdb.com/name/nm0026789/)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Unlikely - you didn't even know me then (:

On a prof

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

I have a mad crush on Prof. Christina Von Nolcken (http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030529/quant-von-nolcken.shtml), which developed when I took her Greek Thought and Literature class.

Re: On a prof

[wolfkitn.livejournal.com]

Greek Thought and Literature

yep. michael p. steinberg, who was my geeky jewish first year prof for "self, culture, and society" (or self torture and anxiety, as we called it). set me up for lots of geeky jewish crushes from then on out...

Re: On a prof

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Oh, if we're getting into college, then the list expands somewhat. :) I had a mad crush on my World Music teacher, whose name I don't even recall anymore...

[pumpkin-pi.livejournal.com]

Pat Benetar!! I had forgotten about Kira from the Dark Crystal...but yeah, her too. Oh, and Princess Leia! Oh, and Erin Gray from the Buck Rodgers TV series (mmmmm...spandex!)...and she wasn't too bad in Silver Spoons either (a MILF before there even was such a term!). And I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting...

[bluepapercup]

Yeah, John Cleese.
Bill Nye. totally

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

(I guess I may as well note that I had, and still have, a crush on Milo Bloom. You know, from Bloom County?)

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter--I almost went to see Dukes of Hazard just for her cameo)

Michelle Pfeiffer in Ladyhawke. Well, okay, I guess I was barely in college when I saw that movie. But still. Unearthly beauty.

Friday (as drawn by Michael Wheelan for the Heinlein novel.)

[pxr5.livejournal.com]

Most of mine are fictional, I'm afraid:

Jen from the Dark Crystal
Adric from Dr. Who
Robin (Michael Praed version) from Robin of Sherwood
Avon from Blakes 7

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Michael Crawford, whether as the Phantom or not.
Prince.
Michael Jackson.
Bon Jovi. Whoa boy, huge.
Scott Hamilton. Yes, the ice skater.
Oh, um, Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap.

*hangs head*

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

Robert Guillaume - Benson, on Soap!

Serious big crush. *sighs* He was just SO cool!

[rule30.livejournal.com]

Davy Jones (the Monkees)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I think I had a crush on the Monkees as a whole. :)

[rule30.livejournal.com]

oh, also Eric Idle.

but now I'm saving myself for Hendrik Hertzberg.