Welcome to the cougars, Cookie Fann! There are a lot of us Cookie fans with husbands who are a wee bit (or more) jealous! It's definitely a balancing act!

I'm with you. I can't wait for his album and for a whole concert of only him! Thanks goodness for the internet! Remember before the internet, VCRs, etc. Once in a while you might catch your favorite singer or group on TV, but when the show was over, that was it. No recording of it to watch over and over again! It's sure a lot more fun now!!
Sandi

Nemo -- figured out how to copy this to new thead -- see "Was David too Cocky in the beginning?"

I do remember it well. I love the Internet and my Tivo and cell phone and all of it.

I couldn't have said it better. My jaw just about hit the floor when Simon said that about him. He has more charisma than anyone I have ever met or will never meet, that I am sure of. Couldn't understand what he meant with the comment about car racing or whatever-maybe I missed something? Randy knew what he was saying when he said he was hot (although I'm sure he was talking about the performance, not the MAN)! I think it's so funny that when I look at the times some of these things are posted, they are like in the middle of the night. We all must have some serious Cook-induced sleeplessness. I have gotten no more than 5 (mostly only 3-4) hours of sleep a night since the finale. At least like you said, we had Tuesday and Wednesday to look forward to. Now all we have is this and YouTube.

Each of the contestants had a little interview before their song, like David with his Word Nerd, and they talked about various things. I remember MJ talked about tennis because I'm a big tennis fan, but I actually can't even remember who liked car racing.

Thanks, Jersey Girl. The discussion re: DC's initial reaction to Simon after the no charisma comment is going on over there now folks.
Was DC too Cocky with Simon?
It's interesting to see how different people are thinking about it!
NEMO Cougar #40

Hi!

I am driving everyone I know crazy with my slight (who am I kidding, insane) obsession with David. I am always listening to his music, looking at his pictures, watching videos of him on youtube....just something constantly....I miss seeing him every Tuesday and Wednesday night. Being 39 now, I suppose you can call me a cougar. Because he definitely makes me purr. :)

P.S. Could anyone write me and tell me how you attach a picture as a signature. It seems I can only add text or insert from a url. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi! Another cougar for David Cook checking in. I am a married mother of four grown children and I too am obsessed with David. I picked him as the next American Idol at the auditions and voted only for him the entire season. Just watched the finale again and had tears in my eyes! Such a gracious winner!!! Going to the concert on August 4th with several friends! We cannot wait. Check out People Magazine this week. It has a great interview and amazing photos of our boy!

P.S. Does anyone know how to contact the Idol Producers? We all hate the waving girls in the front. They
have to disappear next season.

Felicity's Mom

Hey everyone, Grandmajoyce here (Word Nerd 2553, Cookie Cuddler Cougar 29C) I live in Jersey and work nights so I come home and read all the posts. You ladies crack me up, you sound like me!! I'm lost not seeing David every week, however, I taped the shows because of working the night shift, so I get to relive his win over again, I don't have Tvo, just a VCR and I always set it 10 min after the shows end so I didn't miss a thing.
I h ave been into only two singers since The Beatles (saw them in '65 and '66 at Shea) Chris Daughtry(didn't see him yet because I refused to give Hicks any of my money} This is the first time I am going to an Idol Tour and I can't wait!!!!!!!! I look forward to seeing all the Top 10, but my Heart belongs to David!!!

Well, I think I will go watch him win again.

Love to all my fellow Cougars,

Grandmajoyce

Another cougar here. On the AI forum I was DCwhathavudun2me. I was so obsessed and spending way too much time there, I cut myself off cold turkey. It's been a couple of weeks since the finale, and I am still utterly obsessed. So, while searching for an mp3 link to the Wal-Mart shareholders performance, I find myself here, once again on a DC forum. I have burned 3 CDs of David's music to play in my car. My phone, which doubles as an MP3 player, is full of his music as well. TOML is my current ringtone. I search for DC video clips to watch online. In all of my 48 years, I have never been a groupie or star struck like this. I can relate to all of the stories in this thread.

I grew up in southeast Missouri, was pretty much a good girl, top student, editor of my high school newspaper, not exactly a total nerd, but fitting in somewhere near the peripheral of the "cool crowd". I went to college at UMC, not so much a good girl anymore, but managed to graduate with a sheepskin that would help me land a decent paying job. I have been pretty much unlucky in love - two failed marriages, no kids. I have always loved music, but alas was not blessed with much of a singing voice. I sound best in the shower or in the car when the stereo is turned up really loud. I learned how to play the piano as a kid, but can only ready music. Wish I could play by ear.

I now live in Virginia. The closest AI tour concert is in Washington DC in mid August. I was checking out ticket availability, and Ticketmaster only has the nosebleed section seats still available. On eBay, I can spend a small fortune for something closer - considering doing it. But I don't really have anyone to go with me. I usually try to avoid DC traffic at all costs - and now I'm actually thinking about going there on purpose.

I could go on forever, but it's after 2:00 in the morning and I should go to bed.

Hello, Ladies!

This is great. I can SO identify with you! I voted for DC for the entire four hours, till I couldn't vote anymore. He really deserved the win.

Some young people on other boards made fun of Taylor Hicks' cougar fans. I hope that doesn't happen here. It doesn't matter if you are 5 or 105. Music brings us all together.

Cheers to my fellow cougars!

Welcome, Kathy! As far as I can tell everyone's getting along really well on this board, no matter what age! I've read posts from people from 14 to 66, and there might be some outside that age range that I'm not aware of.

I posted a short intro late last night. Here is my more detailed intro, aka "Confessions of a Cougar":

I am 48 years YOUNG, single for the past 10 years, and fairly content with my life. My only kids are my six dogs. Life was going along as usual until a couple of months ago.

I stumbled across David Cook, totally by accident. It all started when I decided to get a new TV. Circuit City had a great deal on a Panasonic 42-inch Plasma that I could not resist. Of course, with a new hi-def TV, I needed to upgrade my DirecTV service to receive the HD programming, which meant I needed to have a new dish installed. When that happened I was able to receive my local network channels (including FOX) via my satellite service too, although the locals aren’t in HD – yet. Before, I only received local network channels via antenna, and rarely could I get the FOX channel. Curious to see what I had been missing on the networks, I tuned into American Idol one evening. That was my first glimpse of David Cook. I immediately had to go online and find the video clips of all of his previous performances. I was hooked.

The next few weeks I made sure I was home and settled in front of the plasma every Tuesday and Wednesday night. I have never been much of a reality show fanatic and had never had the inclination to phone in my vote for anything. Even while I watched Idol religiously the last few weeks of this season, I never voted… until it was the final two. There was so much hype, and especially after Simon’s knockout comment, I just had to vote. With my cell and landline, for four hours straight I voted like there was no tomorrow casting somewhere around 1500 votes for the rocker. Dialidol was predicting a DC win, but would it make the correct prediction yet another year? AOL had Archie in the lead. I got online and checked out the chatter on the AI forums. People had voted like crazy. It didn’t surprise me at all when Ryan announced on Wednesday night that over 97 million votes were cast. But when he said that the winner won by over 12 million votes, I began thinking that if 7999 other cougars voted like I did, WE were the ones who pulled it out for DC. (*pats self on back*)

Cougar – interesting term. Before all of this, a cougar to me was a big cat or Lincoln-Mercury’s idea of a muscle car in the 70’s. Now I find out that I may just be one too, and that apparently there are many of us. Also before Idol, I didn’t know what a faux-hawk or soul patch were either. Boy, has my vocabulary expanded.

I find myself in very unfamiliar territory, being a “Cougar 4 Cook”. I have never been this much of a fan of anyone – rock/pop star, actor, athlete, no one. I find it hard to concentrate on much of anything these days due to my daydreaming of David Cook and my obsession to search for anything about him online. I downloaded his music from iTunes, and I don’t even own an iPod! So then I purchased some protected music converter software to make mp3s out of the iPod tunes. I searched online for pre-Idol music from David. The memory card in my cell phone (which also acts as my mp3 player) is filled with DC performances from Idol, as well as his Axium and Analog Heart recordings. I’ve burned three CDs of his music to play in the car. I listen to him all of the time. I’ve made my own David Cook T-shirts. I have even set up a Google Alert for any news on David Cook… I can’t miss a thing! I’ve wept, I’ve laughed, and I’ve been completely moved by the talent and sincerity of this up and coming rock star. I wonder if my life will ever return to “normal”. Or will I always carry around inside of me this secret love affair with a man 23 years my junior who doesn’t even know of my existence? All I know is that this experience has reminded me of two things: age is merely a state of mind, and rock is ageless.

"Okay, where are the other Cougars?"

In response to the question posed by this thread....we're here!

THE OFFICIAL 'COUGAR' FORUM, for all of us DC fans aged 40 and up...
http://www.david-cook.org/index.php?showtopic=6634

How old does one have to be to qualify as a Cougar? I'm thinking I probably qualify!

Depends on who you ask, some say 35, others say 40. So if you are 35 to 39 you can choose to classify yourself as a cougar, or a cubgar (defined as 18 to 39 on this forum.)

Newbie here. Sadly, I've qualified as a Cougar for several years now. (What I wouldn't give to be 25, beautiful and residing in L.A. right now!) But as others have mentioned here and elsewhere, David Cook has unleashed my squeeeeing inner teenager, which hadn't seen the light of day for...well, decades! I had, prior to DC's appearance on AI, held nothing but total disdain for the show. Then I heard him the week he did Eleanor Rigby and that was it. I couldn't get enough. Now I've finally registered here after lurking for weeks because even though the show is over for this season, the most accomplished artist and my favorite contestant won and now I want to follow his burgeoning career.

Even though I tend to think the term "cougar" is a little reductive, I'll gladly wear the Cougar for Cook mantle with the rest of you!

Welcome to the forum! Yes, we've had some discussion in our cougar thread about the term, whether it applies if you aren't into stalking. LOL

Yet another C4C sayin' hey! New here but, like you, was a DC supporter from moment one on AI.

Glad to know there are so many other deranged ... I mean dedicated older fans out there.

If I can't have him, maybe my daughter can snag him. Then I would really look forward to family get togethers!

~ Suze ~

Well, I’ve got tears in my eyes from laughing so hard! I, too, am utterly mystified by this thing. I mean really, WTF?? I’ve never had such a crush on a celebrity, not even as a teenager. I have watched Gladiator about a hundred times, Russel Crowe in a skirt and all that, but that's NOTHING compared to this nonsense. WHAT is going on here???? I am a 41 year old, married, overly educated ( ) woman with a six year old son, for cripes sake. I shouldn’t be swooning like a teenager over a man technically young enough to be my son.

I didn’t even really know who David Cook was until April. All I knew was that there was “some guy on American Idol who was really good”, and this was according to my husband who came up to where I was reading in bed to tell me about this American Idol contestant who did something great with “Billie Jean”. At the time I thought, “Uh Hunh, JUST what I want to see, some guy redoing an old Michael Jackson song, YAWN!!”

Anyway, my husband had been watching it because he really liked Cookie (ironic, hunh?), so I sat down to watch Mariah Carey night. Then David sang “Always Be My Baby”. Uh oh!! Whooaaaaaa!!! Hey now, who’s THAT??? I mean DAYUM!!!

And so I had to go to YouTube to do some catch-up, don’t ya know. And that did me in. I was hopelessly lost after watching “All Right Now”; my heart actually fluttered when he got that crooked smile on his face. I honestly don’t know how any straight female can watch that video and not end up being reduced to a bundle of raging hormones. Good Gawd Allmighty, that is one of the sexiest things I have EVER seen.

So I now act like an addict! Sneaking around to look for pics on line, going to YouTube late at night for all of the latest videos; downloading everything available for my iPod – you guys know the drill. And, finally, here I am for the first time in my life on a fansite !! What’s happened to me???? I can stop, I really can . . . maybe I’ll wean myself slowly . . . maybe I’ll start tomorrow . . . yes, that’s it, I’ll start tomorrow . . . . because today I need to download that People magazine picture and figure out a way to make it into a screensaver that will sense my husband’s approach and turn itself into a pic of cute bunnies!

You guys understand, right? You have seen that photo?? The one on the couch?????

God, I need help !

Now you've got me ROTFLMAO! THAT photo is the wallpaper for my laptop right now. When you figure out how to make it into a screensaver that senses your husband's approach and changes into bunnies, let us know... could come in handy at work too.

I'm like you... I keep trying to keep my obsession under control, but I think I am losing that battle.

You've definitely got me ROTFLMAO! That's me! Quickly clicking over to a window with some work stuff on it whenever hubby walks by! LOL

Ironically, my husband, a musician, also picked out David as by far the most talented in the early rounds. But this obsession thing is a little beyond him...

No hubby in this household, but I swear my dogs are rolling their eyes at me!

You wanna know how bad it is? Earlier I was going through the pictures forum and it was time for dinner; so I stuck a pizza in the toaster oven for my son and ran back to the computer (ya know, as if the pics were going to disappear or something!). The bell rang, and I took the pizza out, plopped it on a plate on the kitchen counter and left it sitting there, then ran back to the laptop. About 20 minutes later he asked me where his dinner was. I simply forgot to feed my child!!!! Whoopsie!

Oh, and I am very familiar with the stealth change of window maneuver. Although, I don't think he's fooled. When David was on Regis & Kelly the other morning, hubby heard the announcement and said, "Well, guess that means you won't be doing anything 'til 10:00." It really is a bit embarassing !

I have two adult sons (ages 24 and 27) that live with me, and all I hear is mom, are you ogeling David again".
Thank god I have an 11 year old granddaughter that I can talk about David to! All her mother does, my 30 year old daughter, is roll her eyes :

But I don't care, I'm an obsessed Cougar and proud of it!!!!

Grandmajoyce
Cookie Cuddler Cougar #29C

Can I ever relate to that!?!? I feel like I need a 12 Step group to stop myself from scouring the Internet looking for "anything David".

Glad to have found all you other obsessed "experienced" women.

I too do the window changing manuever when I hear hubby coming. I have to make sure I have a window open when I set my laptop down for a while so he doesn't see the wallpaper! I am so glad I can come here and talk about all things DC! I figure if I were 25, I could talk about him to everyone! However, since I'm a "tad" older...actually quite a few tads!....I keep my obsession to myself unless someone brings him up first. Sure glad you're all out there to chat with and to read your thoughts about David which pretty much mirror mine. Don't forget that he's on Leno tonight! (like you would forget! LOL)

I'm just an old, fat, rock-loving cougar myself who went nuts over David's voice and stage presence and has weird fantasies over his physical personage. I'm in a yahoo group for David, but, some of those ladies have become what I'm calling "Cookie Cutters", so I think I'll stay out of there for a while. I'm tired of defending someone who should need no defense. Can I depend on you guys not to bash? Cause it hurts my heart when someone says something bad about him. I lurve him.

No bashing of The David here!!!! There's enough of that going on out in the world without his fans doing it.

Me again !! My husband's out of town, so I have waayyyy too much private time to indulge myself. Christ, if this guy was crack I'd probably be dead by now! Anyhoo, was busy on YouTube and found a video you guys might enjoy!! I've looked around on the site, but it doesn't seem to be here yet. I thought I'd put it here, rather than in multi-media since, well, hell, I have no idea why !!

But OMFG!! Eye candy! I actually sort of moaned out loud a few times - especially at 1:44 - holy sh*t !!

Sexy Back (he's killing me)


Boy, this is baaaddd - I feel like a dirty girl!!! I think I'm gonna go watch it again !!!!!!!!!!

Hey, me too, hubby just left for 4 days so I'm in Word Nerd Nirvana here. LOL

I start to think, well, I'm getting over it, then I go watch a video like that... hah, who am I kidding?

LMAO! That video made my day! Or shot it all to hell, I dunno!

Maybe all our husbands are together!!!!

This is crazy. My husband thinks I am out of my mind and my kids know all his AI songs by heart. I even bought my first ipod. What has happened to me, I feel like a teenager with a crush!!!!
Did you guys see him on You tube performing for Walmart Shareholders?????? Holy crap he is sooooo goood!!!! If I had known he was here in Blue Springs hiding all these years......... Talk about eye candy!!!Anyway back to the music ( focus..... focus.....ahhhh there).
Can't wait for the tour and album.


Hey us cougars need a jolt every now and again to keep us young and the blood flowing to places forgotten

Go D. You rock the world I know.

Hi Judy,
I don't know if you're in the same yahoo group I was in (notice the past tense!) but your term of Cookie Cutters is so right-on! It really applied to a few (unfortunately a LOUD few) in the group I was in, and I couldn't stand it anymore so I left. Believe me, this is a super friendly, bash-free place! You'll love it and you'll love your fellow cougars!

Sandi

I'm curious . . . why would people who are on a David Cook fan board bash him? And what could they possibly be bashing? That sounds strange to me; unless it was mostly teenagers; they're a fickle lot!

hey Ladies,

Yes we all love David here. What's not to like?????

Ugh!! Nevermind, I found it! What a nitpicking bunch of beeches! Also, very self-important I might add. It seems that they take everything that comes out of his mouth as if it were personally directed at them. Wow! I only had to read half a page of posts to get disgusted. I mean, really, for God's sake, just because you voted for him doesn't mean you're personally involved in his life!!! Wow, the gall!

Yes, this place is muuucchhh better! It's pretty much "happy, happy, joy, joy . . . where's the next pic of his happy trail ??!!

So here ya go!

You got it! I think alot of people here share my philosophy that we each change the world just a little bit by the way we carry ourselves. Multiply that by thousands of cookies...we go around beaming in our David-induced euphoria and spread joy!

Sillyme, you're killing me here!! You're too funny...and a fellow Russell Crowe fan to boot (I think...you mentioned it earlier). In fact, the last time I got this level of unhinged was when I dragged a couple friends with me to Chicago to see Crowe's band play back in 2000. They said they'd never seen me smile so much in all the years they'd known me.

If only they could see me NOW!

And boy, am I glad I have no husband/kids from whom I have to hide the 'puter screen. I'm free to ogle...er, I mean, gaze at DC's loveliness at my leisure. Thanks for the visual, Silly!

thank you Sillyme for the pic OMG it is sooooooo yes yes yes

I have one daughter and she thinks I have lost my mind, she could be right but I don't care. I have no hubby but I have a BF and he said I could call him David "once" while we were making love and he would let me get away with it but only one!! Sweet guy.
but I am sitting here sub-consiencely waiting for Leno tonight so I can see him again. I have an hour and a half then I will be looking at him again.
Other than him being so incredabilty HOT I don't know what this is for sure. this is not me I simply don't do this...I didn't get this way with Brad Pitt or Johnny Deap I am compleatly consumed by this guy.....
I like him with out the beard but with the beard he is wayyyyyy hotter I think...I would do him in a minute and would not feel anything but proud of myself he is so sexy

............pokes her head into the cougar thread....

.................................... laughs ............................................

..........happily admits to being a cougar herself! .................................

....................and finally waves hello!..............................

QUOTE (sillyme @ Jun 12 2008, 11:05 AM)
Me again !! My husband's out of town, so I have waayyyy too much private time to indulge myself. Christ, if this guy was crack I'd probably be dead by now! Anyhoo, was busy on YouTube and found a video you guys might enjoy!! I've looked around on the site, but it doesn't seem to be here yet. I thought I'd put it here, rather than in multi-media since, well, hell, I have no idea why !!

But OMFG!! Eye candy! I actually sort of moaned out loud a few times - especially at 1:44 - holy sh*t !!

Boy, this is baaaddd - I feel like a dirty girl!!! I think I'm gonna go watch it again !!!!!!!!!!

Y'all.....I just stumbled onto this website & I watched the SexyBack video......I can't explain it. My heart just started racing!! I think I have missed seeing "my man" every week since he won AI.

I think I'm having a heart attack!!! He is just scrump-deli-ishus!!! I could just eat him UP!!!!

Oh, yes! Gotta love Russell in his gladiator outfit!! And pretty much anything else he does for that matter! Great actor; but, yeesh, Gladiator - drool producing!!!

However, even dear Russell can't compete with David!! I am still baffled at what it is, exactly, that's got me going. Seriously, I could just eat this guy up! I mean, LOOK!! This one's been photoshopped a bit, but I can't get a hold of the original. Anyway, my GAWD!!

LOL can you imagine laying in bed and looking at THAT??? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think what it is, is that he has something child-like about his face, yet......prrrrrrr......so YUMMY & SEXY with that beard.......oh God, there goes my heart racing again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I think I could......I have a pretty big imagination!!!!! MOO-AHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

OK! Today I will not sit at the computer all day long watching videos and looking at pictures!!! NO, no, no!!!! I will take my azz outside for a long walk, work in the garden, get some sun on this pasty skin that I've developed from being huddled over the computer, clean this pigstye of a house that I've completely ignored for 3 days, actually cook a good dinner and get to bed early!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Besides, I can still take along my iPod with all of David's songs, wheeeeee.

I think I can do it, I really do. I'm with all of you; I've never been one to go gaga like this!! It has taken over my life! I coud just listen to this guy sing and stare at him 24/7!!! Gggaaaahhhhhh!! I'm old enough to know better. WTH am I thinking? Oh, I know, I'm not thinking . . . I am being led around by friggin' hormones.

Okiedoke - off I go . . . except . . . just one more look-see at that Sexy Back vid!!!! Got to start the day off right, hunh ?????

Ok when do you know when you need to slow down??

Twice last night I dreamed about him!!!!!!!! No not once like a normal person but I woke up and went to pee and then went back to sleep and I did it again.....then woke up with with Billy Jean on my mind.

I am way overboard with this, I watched DC last night on Leno and he was awesome as always.Gotta admit it did bother me a bit when the 11yr old child talked about how hot he was

Today I will try to get some other things done but I don't know how that will work I might have to check in for a fix.

Oh yea, the dreams were great...I was young and hot and we know he was

#37 kissable cougar


notice you and I are the first two to say we are not going to do this today and yet we are the only two on here...still!!

Good luck! I know I'll be able to accomplish this but only because I have two appointments I have to keep! That said, I couldn't sleep in the wee hours of this morning and got up super early. Possibly insomnia but more likely it's because I went to bed early and just HAD to get up and watch the Tonight show that I'd Tivo'd! I should have driven to Burbank/NBC to try to be in the crowd that saw him perform! Not sure how I would have explained that to hubby tho'.
Sandi
PS Haven't had any David dreams...yet!



The rest are probably like I was up until a few minutes ago - getting my David fix watching videos of him! LOL

They said he tempted us with his sex face and lied about being single so we would vote for him, then the day after voting, staged a "fake" asking Kim out thing when they'd probably BEEN together all along. And something he said about wanting his fans to lay off the sex and KC thing and "Just buy his CD". They twist his words around because they're jealous of KC. Yeah, me too, but who wouldn't be? So, we won't bash David cause he's just naturally sexy, will we? Nooooo. The boy can't help it! lol There are some really good people in that group, though who support and love David. You know the thing about a few bad apples! lol


That is, by far, the sexiest Treasure Trail I've seen in all my years. I'm in my fifties and I've seen quite a few. Did you notice it's really crooked?