This is my big brother, ca. 1983. He posts comments here as "WDS".
Do you think he's cute...in an early-80's kind of way? I'm only asking because he's three years older than me, and throughout my adolescence---as if it wasn't painful enough---I was pelted left and right with comments from breathless teenage girls about how cuuuuuuuuuuute my brother was. "Your brother is a HUNK..." they'd say. I also heard, "Your brother is such a FOX!" and "I'm soooooooo in loooooooove with your brother!" with some frequency.
I'm only bringing this up because I never, in all the years I withstood these verbal assaults, could figure out just what in TARNATION these feebleminded girls were talking about. I loved, and still love, my brother...in a sibling kind of way. But I thought, and still think, he's the dorkiest, most bumbling lug in the Northern Hemisphere. Just look at this wrestling (alternative pronunciation for the southern states: "wrasslin'") portrait:
So my question is: Do you think he was a fox? Would you have thought he was a fox in 1983? And if so, is this a universal phenomenon---for siblings to find one another not only unattractive, but disgustingly, vomitotiously unattractive? I can say with a high level of confidence that I'm sure WDS always found me as exceedingly barfalicious as I found him.
Not to be gross, but do you think it's nature's way of protecting against inbreeding?
I'm already regretting that last question.
Yes and Yes.
Posted by: No | Sep 12, 2006 at 07:07 AM
The first picture is pretty hot, the second not so much.
Posted by: Boo-yah | Sep 12, 2006 at 07:14 AM
Well, no. But consider that I am a lesbian. I would have probably liked to pal around with him, though. In high school, one of my best friends was the captain of the football team and I used to have the other girls begging me for my secret on why he liked me so much. It was simple. My glasses didn't fog up around him and I think he found that really attractive...:)
Posted by: Laura | Sep 12, 2006 at 07:26 AM
It just so happens I have a very ugly brother as well. I can identify. He used to be a lot uglier though.
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 12, 2006 at 07:31 AM
Hawt like lava!
Posted by: Sandra | Sep 12, 2006 at 07:56 AM
I think he looks a little like Bobby Ewing. Sure, he's kinda cute. I don't know that I'd say "hot"--especially not after seeing that wrestling photo:o) He has that nice-boy-next-door look, though. I bet he's a real sweety.
Posted by: Jenni in KS | Sep 12, 2006 at 08:03 AM
He's not my type, I guess, but he was cute in a nice guy kind of way. He does look kind of like a cross between Jon Cusack and Scott Baio. With a REALLY BAD bowl haircut. (Sorry!) The pose in the wrasslin' one about made me fall out of my chair. HEE.
Posted by: Lawyerish | Sep 12, 2006 at 08:14 AM
He was way cute.
Posted by: pixielyn | Sep 12, 2006 at 08:36 AM
In the formal portrait I think he looks a little like Paul Peterson (Jeff Stone on "The Donna Reed Show"). Okay, I'm old and remember TV shows from that far back. But, I see the John Cusack and Patrick Duffy similarites too. I agree with Jenni in KS that he has a nice boy-next-door look; the kind of boy that Mom always thought I should bring home.
Posted by: Karen | Sep 12, 2006 at 08:42 AM
Nice Shama......serves him right to be the subject of your blog! Surely you have pictures from when he took ballet to post - oh yeah...right, that was supposed to help his wrestling prowess.....you know who loves ya!
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 12, 2006 at 08:44 AM
Oh yes, despite the bowl cut, I would have found him adorable and way out of my league. I would have sent him anonymous candygrams our school offered as fundraisers. He'd have tossed it into the pile of dozens of other candygrams he'd received from other admirers, I'm sure.I have a gorgeous cousin that I might have considered resisting the inbreeding statutes for. Oops, did I say that out loud?
Posted by: Sally | Sep 12, 2006 at 08:53 AM
What a FOX!! I am soooooo in love with your brother! He's SOOOOOO cute!!! Can I get his email address? Huh? Huh???
Posted by: Feebleminded aged ;) | Sep 12, 2006 at 09:06 AM
Yes, he might have caught my eye.I think it's normal to not realize our siblings as HOT. We see and know too much about them, and are STUCK with them EVERY DAY growing up! (I thought of my brother as a walking pest full of yucky boy germs as we were growing up, but now that we are in seperate households I think he's fabulous!)
Posted by: momto3cubs | Sep 12, 2006 at 10:01 AM
Rough!
Posted by: wds | Sep 12, 2006 at 10:25 AM
I use to hear the samething about my brother. Everyone telling me how "cute" or "hot" my brother is while in school.*LOL*
Posted by: Debs | Sep 12, 2006 at 10:30 AM
umm, yeah, he's cute. he's, like, happily married with 4 kids, right? bec if he isn't ... i could send you my number ... just kidding.
Posted by: islaygirl | Sep 12, 2006 at 10:44 AM
Sure, your brother is cute. I probably wouldn't have thought so in 1983, though, because I would've been about 2 and not really interested in boys yet. :)I think both of my brothers are hunks, but in a sort of objective, sexless way. NOT in an inbreeding sort of way -- creepy!
Posted by: Bess | Sep 12, 2006 at 10:48 AM
He's hot. Wrestlers always have good bodies. Though in 1983 I was six years old , so I might have missed the magic at the time...!
Posted by: Wendell77 | Sep 12, 2006 at 10:55 AM
In 1983 I would have been 18 so I would have said a litlle young but cute. I went after bad boys and he looks like one of the nice guys. I know how you feel I have 2 brothers
Posted by: dawn | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Kids? Yes...two.Married? No.I'm lovin' your comments, everyone.
Posted by: Ree | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:14 AM
Sorry Ree. He's a hunk. I do understand what you're going through. When I was a freshman, a few of the senior girls were hanging around me being real sweet, inviting me to their lunch table.....then they gradually worked my older brother into the conversation. "Does he have a girlfriend?" "Does he have a date for the prom yet?" EWWW! USERS@*!
Posted by: Susan in va | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:14 AM
Yeah...he's totally 1983-hawt.Of course, his personality, not merely his looks, would probably dictate some of those comments - dontcha think?Is he as hawt now?Or bumbling and dorky?Of course, I always was drawn to the sweet, dorky types.
Posted by: Tiggerlane | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:16 AM
Okay, I must come to Doug's defense. I have known him since before we were both born, we have cute baby pictures together and he is named after my dad. I was only 1 year ahead of Doug in school and I can verify that every girl I knew thought that Doug was what girls now call a "hottie." Yes, even the wrestling picture...go Bruins! My brain classified Doug as a relative, but every girl I knew asked me, "you know Doug, he is soooo cute." So, there you go. Proof that Doug was hot in high school. Love ya wds.
Posted by: EWB | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:24 AM
Yes...but I had a major thing for dorks with bowlcuts in 1983! He looks like my computer tutor.
Posted by: sasha | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:26 AM
That wrestling picture is totally cute. Nice legs!
Posted by: Kari | Sep 12, 2006 at 11:36 AM