Many of us have heard of the so-called "beer goggle" effect.

A patch over a male Gouldian finch's right eye works like beer goggles, though the bird doesn't need booze to flirt unwisely.

Something tells me people will wake up the next morning without the beer goggles and realized they got freaky with the nasty and will regret it to a suicidal condition.

He later gave up his enterprise when Steve's own experience of "beer goggles" showed what atrocities can happen when children drink.

The "beer goggles" are considered to have distorted the "wearer's" vision, making unattractive people appear beautiful, or at least passably attractive.

But Ben, whatever his shortcomings, is friendly and unpretentious, and it does not entirely defy belief when Alison, beer goggles firmly in place, takes him home to bed.

I was wearing beer goggles not that that is a worthy excuse.

"One college student told me he drank heavily at parties because all of his dates 'looked prettier through beer goggles,' " Dr. Marlatt said.

Because as Monkey knows, beer goggles do not equate to enhanced pulling power in a bar or nightclub scenario.