Easy On The Eyes Poll

[sidemunch88]

I am wearing a snow hat heavy coat jeans and wool socks and warm shoes

[rachael]

ok

[tinytherese]

I'm not sure where the phrase officially originated, but I remember hearing it for the first time when I was in elementary school when my friends and I saw Antz at the movies.

[MIKolbe]

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[rachael]

[MIKolbe]

[sidemunch88]

[Ed Normile]

I bet the average young lady would be upset and think this guy is hitting on me. Makes you wonder why they bother to dress up. I was shocked at the line a guy used on an attractive young woman in a restaurant a few years back, even more shocked when she left the establishment with him moments later, but I guess some women like being approached like they are pro's. This was a young woman who came in with two of her friends and what the guy said caused me to stand up and get ready to tell him him was vulgar and ask him to leave, but she seemed open to the suggestion, I just hope they actually went to another location as the bushes outside the Olive Garden where not that private and it was still early afternoon. I was even more shocked than her friends were who seemed to be a bit jealous.

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[Micah]

^ It takes all sorts I suppose?

If it was just a regular guy and girl, jack meets jill for the first time, probably not. But it depends on the situation. Like if she's your friend, or your hanging out, or your studying, and you're caught glancing at her, you may as well come out and say it!

[rachael]

Kafka

is not

easy on the eyes.

[MIKolbe]

iawtc

[AudreyGrace]

I'd probably just say "thanks.." or "that's nice.." and walk away (if I didn't know the person who said it). If it were one of my friends, I'd feel a little awkward, but I'd get over it fast. Especially if they were cute, which is horrible to say. But I'm just being honest.

Easy on the eyes is MUCH more polite than things I've heard lately (not to me, but to my friends. Most guys don't hit on me because they know I'm Catholic and assume I'll be a nun or something...o.O )

Also, at least it's not as corny as "if I were in control of the alphabet, I'd put U and I together." Like... really though?

There are some Catholic pick up lines that I absolutely love. Alas, to my dismay, I've only read them, not actually been given one by someone. Oh well. =P

[Innocent]

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that is the meaning, but where did I get this expression from, cause I dont think it is common anymore.

sounds like something Humphrey Bogart would say.


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I was until now under the impression that this was a common and well understood phrase.

At any rate, perhaps you first came across this from Wodehouse? I think that was where I first encountered this phrase.

From one of his golfing short-stories:

[quote]A fair and pleasing sight was the Princess of the Outer Isles as she stood on the terrace in the clear sunshine of the summer morning, looking over the King's gardens. With her delicate little nose she sniffed the fragrance of the flowers. Her blue eyes roamed over the rose bushes, and the breeze ruffled the golden curls about her temples. Presently a sound behind her caused her to turn, and she perceived a godlike man hurrying across the terrace pulling up a sock. And at the sight of him the Princess's heart sang within her like the birds down in the garden.

"Hope I haven't kept you waiting," said Merolchazzar, apologetically. He, too, was conscious of a strange, wild exhilaration. [b]Truly was this maiden, as his Chamberlain had said, noticeably [color="#FF0000"]easy on the eyes[/color].[/b] Her beauty was as water in the desert, as fire on a frosty night, as diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, and amethysts.

"Oh, no!" said the princess, "I've been enjoying myself. How passing beautiful are thy gardens, O King!"

"My gardens may be passing beautiful," said Merolchazzar, earnestly, "but they aren't half so passing beautiful as thy eyes. I have dreamed of thee by night and by day, and I will tell the world I was nowhere near it! My sluggish fancy came not within a hundred and fifty-seven miles of the reality. Now let the sun dim his face and the moon hide herself abashed. Now let the flowers bend their heads and the gazelle of the mountains confess itself a cripple. Princess, your slave!"

And King Merolchazzar, with that easy grace so characteristic of Royalty, took her hand in his and kissed it.[/quote][url="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7028"]From the short story [i]The Coming of Gowf[/i], in the collection [i]The Clicking of Cuthbert[/i][/url]