Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: cuddlebug on January 02, 2009, 11:56:21 AM
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Hey everyone,
I just listened to a podcast on pop philosophy (specifically talking about Bruce Springsteen) yesterday and came across the theory that Peter Pan's 'Wendy' is every geek's biggest crush from his early childhood on.
It made me wonder who your biggest crush might be and I was always thinking, it could be someone like Princess Leia, or recently maybe Natalie Portman, ... or maybe Cali Lewis, Felicia Day, etc. :-) And who is it for the girls?
We have loads of geeks in this forum and I for one would really like to see which crush you might have in common. Or maybe we can just collect some and see which ones you like best.
I am sure this has changed a lot over the years, so who did you fancy when you were younger?
Sorry if this has been discussed before, please let me know where to find it if it is in one of the older threads.
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Hey everyone,
I just listened to a podcast on pop philosophy (specifically talking about Bruce Springsteen) yesterday and came across the theory that Peter Pan's 'Wendy' is every geek's biggest crush from his early childhood on.
Definitely not Wendy. I believe my early childhood "crush" was Tia (played by Kim Richards) from Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain. I think the fact that I actually remember the actor's name from that far back confirms this.
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Prepare to LOL.
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Lt. Saavik.
The Kirstie Alley version.
You'd hit it. It's completely logical.
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Linda Carter in Wonder Woman was my first crush. Hot, yet wholesome. Plus, she had an invisible jet.
Also, Bjork when I got a bit older.
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Wow. I can't think of a childhood crush. Must be a case of oldtimers disease.
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Definitely not Wendy. I believe my early childhood "crush" was Tia (played by Kim Richards) from Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain. I think the fact that I actually remember the actor's name from that far back confirms this.
Kim Richards, same here! I couldn't remember her character's name, just that she was the cute long-haired girl I was ga-ga over at the time. My other crush was Julie (June Angela) from the Electric Company.
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I don't recall particularly fancying anyone when I was younger. When I think geek crush the only thing I think of is Hugh Jackman's wolverine (DO WANT), but that's obviously only from the past 8 years or so.
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no pointing and laughing aloud- k?
As a young thing- I had the hots for MacGyver. And I was curiously drawn to Punky Brewster. That's all I'm willing to fess up to.
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*points and laughs... silently*
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I'm really tired right now, so I'm not pushing myself too hard. The first one that comes to mind is Jennifer Connelly. This started right around the time she was in the Rocketeer. This was most likely because she was playing a character originally based on Bettie Page.
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Oh, Jennifer Connelly... I think everyone has a crush on her: in addition to being gorgeous, she projects that combination of vulnerability and availability that's hard to resist. And she was really at maximum lusciousness in the Rocketeer, yeah.
My first geek crush was the sexy evil princess from the movie Flash Gordon. Ooh, BAD girl!
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I fell for Frank Langella, but not in Dracula, though I'd seen it. No, I flipped for him in the stage production of Sherlock Holmes, hard enough that I spent way too much money on eBay for a videotape of the broadcast. He's still my alltime favorite actor, though I also had a thing for David Bowie (right after Labyrinth came out) and Chris Sarandon.
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Definitely not Wendy. I believe my early childhood "crush" was Tia (played by Kim Richards) from Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain. I think the fact that I actually remember the actor's name from that far back confirms this.
Kim Richards, same here! I couldn't remember her character's name, just that she was the cute long-haired girl I was ga-ga over at the time.
How old were you? I would have been nine or ten when I saw Return. And checking IMDB I see that Richards is a scant five years older than me.
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Oh, Jennifer Connelly... I think everyone has a crush on her: in addition to being gorgeous, she projects that combination of vulnerability and availability that's hard to resist. And she was really at maximum lusciousness in the Rocketeer, yeah.
My first geek crush was the sexy evil princess from the movie Flash Gordon. Ooh, BAD girl!
Heck, I have a thing for her, and I'm a straight woman :D
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Definitely not Wendy. I believe my early childhood "crush" was Tia (played by Kim Richards) from Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain. I think the fact that I actually remember the actor's name from that far back confirms this.
Kim Richards, same here! I couldn't remember her character's name, just that she was the cute long-haired girl I was ga-ga over at the time.
How old were you? I would have been nine or ten when I saw Return. And checking IMDB I see that Richards is a scant five years older than me.
She's only 7 mos older than me so I would've been 9 or 10 and in 4th grade when Escape was out. She was all that.
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Nine or ten years old seems to be the age for childhood crushes ... for the boys, anyway. Ladies, would anybody care to chime in with some data points?
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Nine or ten years old seems to be the age for childhood crushes ... for the boys, anyway. Ladies, would anybody care to chime in with some data points?
That explains it! My crush at that age was a classmate, Kelly.
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Steph:
I am not a good model of the average girl- roughly age 12 for me. No real "my heart yearns" type crushes until I was 13-14. Late bloomer or Tom-Boy.. it's unsure.
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Peter Pan's Wendy? Uh, no. Showing my age, but my childhood geek crush was Erin Grey as Colonel Deering in Buck Rogers.
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Peter Pan's Wendy? Uh, no. Showing my age, but my childhood geek crush was Erin Grey as Colonel Deering in Buck Rogers.
Actually looking at this with an awake mind, I came up with Colonel Deering and Daisy Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard. BTW what was that yellow and black car she had before the jeep? Was it a Barracuda? I have just a vague image of it in my head.
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I reckon I was about eight and it was.... Jason from G-force: Battle of the Planets. Mark was cute and all, but he just didn't exude the mature sexiness of Jason to my childish heart.
And yes, I am talking abou the cartoon.
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ah, g-force! i discovered it during my pre-crush years but i was so into it that my mom made me a brightly coloured caped costume for halloween. so, in a year when all the kids were ewoks & jedi i was trying to explain about anime. some geeks are born, not made.
wherethewild, it was all about Casey Kasem's voice wasn't it? =)
nothing wrong with cartoon crushes, Betty Rubble (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcdh2SS1AY#t=14s) always had that little extra something.
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I'm leaving my earlier post in place, but after reading later posts, it suddenly occurred to me who made my heart beat a bit faster in my younger years: Micky Dolenz of the Monkees!
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Izz! Yup, a wee bit later on the Monkees stole my heart! Davey was my fav but Mickey was a veryclose second
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Peter Pan's Wendy? Uh, no. Showing my age, but my childhood geek crush was Erin Grey as Colonel Deering in Buck Rogers.
Yep, her and Princess Leia. Totally.
Also, as a kid, I had a thing for Hayley Mills. I remember being heartbroken when I was 7 realized she was like 35 years older than me ::)
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first SF crush was much more recent for me as I did not watch a whole lot of SF when I was a kid but Lexa Doig was my first real one that catagory that was about 2 or 3 years ago when I started watching Andromeda
as far as wendy... no not even on my radar
first real TV crush was probably Sarah MacKenzie (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0020058/) from JAG
others since then but those are the most relevant
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Funny how everyone is responding with crushes from TV or movies. Wendy exists (primarily) in text form...
Does anyone want to fess up to any text only crushes?
I remember liking Alia as portrayed in the third Dune book - dangerous but smart as hell. And yes, I read those books when I was a pre-teen.
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Wendy exists (primarily) in text form...
I've seen Peter Pan on stage, in several different TV and movie incarnations, and I've even heard a radio version, but I've never read any form of he story.
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Funny how everyone is responding with crushes from TV or movies. Wendy exists (primarily) in text form...
A crush is a superficial infatuation based primarily on appearance, I always thought. Or maybe that's just a guy thing.
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Funny how everyone is responding with crushes from TV or movies. Wendy exists (primarily) in text form...
A crush is a superficial infatuation based primarily on appearance, I always thought. Or maybe that's just a guy thing.
*This is only from personal experience- I'm no good at representing the female species, they generally think I'm weird.
Yes and no. I've had crushes on many a text person. Ed- in the lion the witch and the wardrobe. The first of the Xanth series gave me a hankering for magical men. Many a long afternoon was riddled with brief flight of fancy crushes. However- none of them were as deep as the "screen" crushes. A certain mullited wonder had me all giddy and silly. And I WAS honestly heartbroken a little when my Mom at last told me how much older he was then I was. Then more so whan my dad told me most of his contraptions wouldn't really work! AND again- just a little when the Mythbusters proved they didn't work. *sigh*
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Funny how everyone is responding with crushes from TV or movies. Wendy exists (primarily) in text form...
Does anyone want to fess up to any text only crushes?
I remember liking Alia as portrayed in the third Dune book - dangerous but smart as hell. And yes, I read those books when I was a pre-teen.
To be fair, most of what I read at the crushable age didn't feature a lot of strong female characters. Nothing crush-worthy, at least.
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I have plenty of geek crushes and a few from real life, and some people I adore without feeling any (sexual) attraction but strong love in another sense.
Geek Crushes past and present list:
1. I used to really like Susan from Doctor Who. That's pretty sad.
2. Then there was that girl in the Dune series.
3. Moving swiftly on to a sucession of Scifi novel heroines
4. ending with the weirdest yet :- Trisha Macmillan...
Honorable Mention
Thom Yorke :) (partly because I admire him a lot, he looks great on stage, and I have to put one Radiohead reference into everything I say. Drives my friends and enemies mental, causing the former to morph into the latter)
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4. ending with the weirdest yet :- Trisha Macmillan...
ooh im gonna have to second this one
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The movie actress didn't fit my image of Trillian at all.
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Funny how everyone is responding with crushes from TV or movies. Wendy exists (primarily) in text form...
Does anyone want to fess up to any text only crushes?
I remember liking Alia as portrayed in the third Dune book - dangerous but smart as hell. And yes, I read those books when I was a pre-teen.
Hmmm. Thinking back. "SF Text only" would probably be Akki from Jane Yolen's Dragon's Blood or perhaps Nita from So you want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane. Though now that I really think about it, the first SF literary crush was probably Heinlein's Friday. I swear it was a reprint.
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Should we start a "most desirable SF gal (text only)" thread? Warning guys, we'd have to start a "most desirable SF guy" thread too.
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Should we start a "most desirable SF gal (text only)" thread? Warning guys, we'd have to start a "most desirable SF guy" thread too.
Captain Jack Harkness! ;D
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Should we start a "most desirable SF gal (text only)" thread? Warning guys, we'd have to start a "most desirable SF guy" thread too.
Captain Jack Harkness! ;D
seconded
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Peter Pan's Wendy? Uh, no. Showing my age, but my childhood geek crush was Erin Grey as Colonel Deering in Buck Rogers.
Yep, her and Princess Leia. Totally.
Just came across this Adam Hughes (http://www.justsayah.com/pages/AHpg24.html) image in ImagineFX (http://www.imaginefx.com/), my favourite Fantasy and SciFi Art magazine, and thought I'd share it with you
(http://www.justsayah.com/images/Nouveau_Leia_Print_web.jpg)
and check out an amazing image of Padme by Terese Nielsen (http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/news20081007.html) (no idea how to link the actual jpg in the post)
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*drools* Natalie Portmannnnnnnnn...
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*drools* Natalie Portmannnnnnnnn...
::Hands him the mop::
Clean that up.
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not a maid!
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Your mess, you clean it up.
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Spit happens. ;D
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Should we start a "most desirable SF gal (text only)" thread? Warning guys, we'd have to start a "most desirable SF guy" thread too.
Captain Jack Harkness! ;D
seconded
thirded... Hey we're very sophisticated in the 51st century!
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Should we start a "most desirable SF gal (text only)" thread? Warning guys, we'd have to start a "most desirable SF guy" thread too.
Captain Jack Harkness! ;D
seconded
thirded... Hey we're very sophisticated in the 51st century!
As ol' George said in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back:
"Gay, straight, it's all the same ... there are no more lines!"
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I believe my early childhood "crush" was Tia (played by Kim Richards) from Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain.
Yet another sequel: Race to Witch Mountain (http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/racetowitchmountain/)
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I'll admit to having a thing for Penelope Pitstop from the Whackey Races, but I was very young...honest (bows head and wanders away stumbling and mildly embarassed :-[ ), very young, very very young
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Penelope Pitstop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Pitstop) even had her own show after Wacky Races.
Also, it appears she was based off of Natalie Wood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Wood), so you had good taste!
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Also, it appears she was based off of Natalie Wood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Wood), so you had good taste!
I hadn't realised that, I feel a lot better now thanks ;) (straightens shoulders slightly and looks a little less shamefaced)
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Penelope Pitstop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Pitstop) even had her own show after Wacky Races.
I always assumed the Wacky Races was all characters from other cartoons.
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I know Dastardly and Muttly had a cartoon before Wacky Races.
It finally hit me. I had a crush on Sylvia, a character that appeared in episodes of Little House On the Prairie in season 7. It comes to a bad end, though.
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I know Dastardly and Muttly had a cartoon before Wacky Races.
Wikipedia says Wacky Races was first in both cases (DD & M were in "DD&M and their Wonderful Flying Machines" or sum such, the second WR spinoff after PP). I stand corrected.
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The one thing I remember from Wacky Races was Muttley's laugh, or rather, snicker. When I laugh so hard I'm crying, I sound like that, so my daughter has turned it into a verb ("Mom, you muttley'd!").
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two words... (err names)
Valerie Bertinelli.
Wokka, Wokka.
On a related topic, if you had to feed one to the sharks, who would you keep, Mary Anne, or Ginger?
(no brainer in my book. Ginger was way to high maintenance, and Mary Anne can cook for you after...)
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humm- Ginger: hot redhead.. and I have a biological preference for red heads. But I'm with ya on the Mary Ann- plus cute pig tails, and low maitnence.
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My first SF crush was Noah Hathaway... Boxy on the original Battlestar Galactica.
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humm- Ginger: hot redhead.. and I have a biological preference for red heads. But I'm with ya on the Mary Ann- plus cute pig tails, and low maitnence.
You interest me more and more. Mary Ann is my preference, too.
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... and came across the theory that Peter Pan's 'Wendy' is every geek's biggest crush from his early childhood on.
Right story/movie, wrong character.
For me it was the 'toon version of Tinkerbell.
(http://blogs.families.com/media/tinkerbell1.jpg)
I just loved her in that bit with the white towel in The Seven-Year Itch.
Oh, wait, that was Marilyn Monroe. Whatever. Very similar appearance, except for the wings.
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... and came across the theory that Peter Pan's 'Wendy' is every geek's biggest crush from his early childhood on.
Right story/movie, wrong character.
For me it was the 'toon version of Tinkerbell.
I just loved her in that bit with the white towel in The Seven-Year Itch.
Oh, wait, that was Marilyn Monroe. Whatever. Very similar appearance, except for the wings.
If you're looking for a sexy Tinkerbell, try Ludivine Sagnier (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756203/):
(http://www.freewebs.com/tinks_club/FWThumbnails/ludivine-sagnier-tink-done-more.bmp)
Try Google for photos of her in normal clothes.
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... and came across the theory that Peter Pan's 'Wendy' is every geek's biggest crush from his early childhood on.
Right story/movie, wrong character.
For me it was the 'toon version of Tinkerbell.
As Chico Marx said in Room Service, "I like 'em a little bigger."
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saw this (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/04/the_10_geeky_childhood_crushes_you_should_never_ev.php), thought of you guys
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saw this (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/04/the_10_geeky_childhood_crushes_you_should_never_ev.php), thought of you guys
And that article made me think of the bit in Wayne's World when Garth asks Wayne if he thought that Bugs Bunny looked hot when he was in drag.
(http://i.xanga.com/fwak/bugs-drag.jpg)
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If we're talking literary pre-adolescent geek crushes, you can't do any better than Meg from A Wrinkle in Time.
I always had a thing for the awkward smart girls as a boy...and she pretty much saved the universe.