Ummmmmmmm, no.
Claudia - "Your friend mike is pretty cute"
Anthony GRRR - "Pretty cute? Thats one of the sexiest men I know! Awesome artist, you should see some of his paintings, my gosh!"
The statement above did a few things, primarily, it responded to claudia and kept conversation flowing nicely, and offered many topics for further discussion, ie - painting, mikes painting, her painting, her views on the arts, her friends, my painting, her fav painting, my fav painting, blablabllab. But, it has many secondary effects as well.
It makes mike look sexy, yay, claudia thinks my friend is hot! Even if I like claudia, and will close on her soon, she can still go back to her friends and say "and guess what, anthony's got a really sexy artist friend!" and they will all want to meet him.
It makes me look sexy, because I am confident enough in my sexyness to compliment another man to my romantic intrest.
It makes me look confident/comfortable/real because by talking about mikes artwork I am acknoleging I am not amazing at everything, which brings a soothing relief to most women, especially if you've just met them. The less you know of something, especially somethings faults, teh more scared you are of it. By showing a 'fault' and that you are still confident about it, its a double wammy straight to her intrest level!
It confuses her, because now she has 2 sexy men to deal with, and the one talking to her is extremely confident and didn't get jealous when she mentioned his friend... maybe I'm too good for her? Heaven for bid! She'll ahve to WORK HARD to get my intrest.
BOOM all that with a few measily sentences. Needless to say you should talk about how sexy your friends are even when you are not prompted... it will make it so both of you are more successful with women.