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While browsing the archives of an LJ comm, I saw an icon of Michael Palin and thought "awwww..."
It made me wonder--how many teenage girls, in 1985, got hot and bothered when thinking about Galahad in Castle Anthrax? If we leave out the rabid cult of Duran Duran (which had its own problems with acceptability), my teenage libido struck on at least two strange choices.
Michael Palin
and
Steve Martin
How many other people, as nerdy teenagers, had crushes that would have been deemed freakish by their non-nerd peers? Fess up, you card-carrying members of the geek show. What unlikely candidates inhabited your early, awkward fantasies?
It made me wonder--how many teenage girls, in 1985, got hot and bothered when thinking about Galahad in Castle Anthrax? If we leave out the rabid cult of Duran Duran (which had its own problems with acceptability), my teenage libido struck on at least two strange choices.
Michael Palin
and
Steve Martin
How many other people, as nerdy teenagers, had crushes that would have been deemed freakish by their non-nerd peers? Fess up, you card-carrying members of the geek show. What unlikely candidates inhabited your early, awkward fantasies?