Guys from my era had that same response to that famous Farrah Fawcett poster. Frankly, I thought she was overrated then and then the train-wreck she turned into was like "Damn, didn't see it coming!", ha ha smart-ass!
In fact, telling a guy he had "Farrah hair" was not a compliment. (We didn't have the term at the time, they we're proto-metrosexuals...)