Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 406. The title of today's lesson is the
difference between nose candy, eye candy and ear candy. Okay. Let's take a look at
the note here. Nose candy simply means cocaine. It's a slang term for cocaine. An
example sentence from the Urban Dictionary seems to suggest a possible
origin of the term nose candy coming from the drug lord , Pablo Escobar who was
very big ... it was I think in the 70s. late 70s. Maybe. Yeah probably in the 70s
around that time. Here is their example sentence. This is what it was.
The DEA which means the Drug Enforcement Agency was bugging his phones you know,
they had the secret microphone in there. They were bugging. They would try to
listen to him to catch him doing drug deals ... was bugging his phones. So when
arranging a drug deal Pablo Escobar used the term Colombian nose candy instead of
cocaine to fool the narcs. The narcs are policemen that try to you know that
work in narcotics which are illegal drugs. So is this really where nose candy
came from ? I tried to do some research and confirm it and I wasn't really able
to confirm it. But it's an interesting sentence and it would be very
interesting if this is really the origin of it. Either way it's definitely you
know, it's definitely another term or another more informal slang term for
cocaine. And this was this one was first and the other two kind of derived but
you know, both eye candy and ear candy came later they were kind of they came
from the idea of nose candy. Okay. So let's continue here. Okay. So nose candy
is one of a number of slangs for cocaine. Like we say, there are a number of them
out there. And here's one example sentence. Many celebrities are addicted
to nose candy. Yeah. You could just say it that way. All right. Let's continue just like I said.
Both eye candy and ear candy spin-offs that are said to derive from
nose candy.So such as some journalists came up with each one of them but really
they got it from the original idea of nose candy. Okay. Let's continue. if we say that
someone or something is eye candy it means that that person or thing is very
attractive and enjoyable to look at but has little or no other valuable
qualities. You know besides their you know, physical features. Okay. Let's
continue. The first known use of eye candy was used to describe the old TV
show "Three's Company. " Yeah. This was actually a very... kind of a funny TV show a
show from the 70s. It was a little stupid at the same time, but it was also a
little funny and they had it was you know three characters and there was two
girls. And it was a guy and they supposedly shared an apartment and you
know this was back in the 1970s when you know, the landlord didn't like the idea
of a guy living with two girls. So he had to pretend like he was gay, but he was a
good cook. But anyway the two girls were very
attractive girls and Susan Somers who was the first one though that acted in
here she was she acted like a very dumb blonde. Or an airhead , sort of blonde. But
she was very very beautiful. Later on though as you know, you got to know Susan
Somers as an actress, And she she wasn't really as you know, dumb-witted as the
characters she played. She actually was kind of smart in real life and Joyce Dewitt
was also pretty too. But that's where they first used eye candy from. So I
guess they were describing the actors at least at the beginning. They didn't think
that they had very that great a talent but the show was popular and they were
you know John Ritter was handsome when he was younger and the three of them , so
they called them... they referred to them as eye candy. But since that time we hear
eye candy is used in a lot of ways. Okay. Let's continue. All right. Let's look here . All right. Here is
a couple of example sentences. Many websites will try
will, will try to decorate their website with eye candy to attract
viewers. Yes. so this one is not necessarily people this is they just
want some attractive decorations around it. And number two. At trade shows for
cars and tech products, they often hire pretty young girls to wear very short
skirts to be eye candy and presenters. Yeah. Well they know well first of all
tech products you know there's usually a lot of nerdy guys go there. So and they
they know that sometimes they will go there just to even see the pretty girls.
They like tech, but they also just want to just look at the pretty girls. And
they kind of gawk at them. But the girls are very pretty, but... You know, they don't
really have to do much they just have to kind of point at stuff. So really they're
there just to be eye candy. They're not really needed. They're not selling. You know,
they're not the sales people. They're not selling anything. They're just to look
pretty and you know attract.people to come. And they often have them at car
shows too. All right. Let's continue here. Ear candy. Now ear candy is light and fun
music without being deep or intellectually stimulating. Okay. Good.
The term ear candy was used as a title of an album by Helen Reddy. Yes. I think
they they said that there was a number of people that sometimes criticized her
that she didn't have very deep music and so she she named one of her albums you
know just "Ear Candy. She just sings you know these nice little love songs. That's
not very deep and you know just just very pleasing. Okay. So we have a couple
of examples sentences here. Most elevator music is just ear candy. Yeah. If you ever
hear sometimes if you go into office buildings and they have elevator music.
They definitely won't want to have any rough or hard rock or anything that
could be you know, be offensive to anyone. So they usually just have songs that are
like ear candy. Okay. The second one here. Ear candy often has a lot of La la song
refrains. Yeah. La la la . You know, has that is in it and you know, again very
simple songs but just you know , fun and light. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I
hope it is clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye,