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Why do I have such high expectations, only to be let down... And oh boy, are some of those let downs ever crushing.

Do women suffer from the 50 yard fake as much as men?

Is it damning that I have never heard this term, and also have no idea what it means?

50 Yard Fake (n): When a girl looks attractive from far away, but when seen up close they are in fact unattractive.

Example: Wow, JCShutout's girlfriend is a real 50 yard fake.

Disclaimer: Just kidding JC!

I have never heard of this either, and even after I read the explanation I'm not sure I get it.

It's when you see someone from a distance (say, 50 feet) and think "Boy, she's hot! I'm gonna go hit on her" or whatever it is that goes through your head. You have high hopes that this is a good-looking woman that you are going to talk to/whatever you do with good-looking women.

BUT after you walk up to her and get close enough to get a good look at her, and she turns out to be definitively not-hot. You are let down because she is a 50 yard fake. Only looks good from a distance.

Think of it like a Seinfeld skit:

George: So I was walking down the street, and I see a good looking woman up ahead.
Jerry: Alright Georgey-boy.
George: But when I get up to her, she's...she's...
Jerry: Scary beyond all belief?
George: It was horrifying Jerry I'm tellin ya!
Jerry: She's a 50 yard fake is what she is.
George: Exactly. A 50 yard fake. Those people should wear signs or big floppy hats or something!
Jerry: It's amazing the Yankees haven't won the World Series in seven years....

Sometimes when drinking it's a 5 foot fake!!!

Ah, now I understand why I've never heard of that term before...

M1IRONMIKE wrote:Sometimes when drinking it's a 5 foot fake!!!

Or what I like to call the 5 am fake.

This is a factual happening...I notice alot of hot women on the Metrolink but when they get closer...not so much...every once in a while it works though, how I met my wife...saw her accross the room...

50 yard fakes
VOD - victim of distance
Hundred foot hottie