# If I said to you "Here's your ears"-would you get the reference? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189 "2015-02-20T13:28:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/21 "2015-02-20T15:39:46Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Just out of curiosity, how long do these new employees stick around? Until it’s time to say goodbye. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/22 "2015-02-20T15:49:03Z")
Having never watched _Mickey Mouse Club_, I would have thought you earlier made a speech where you asked the audience to “lend me your ears” and now you were figuratively or jokingly giving them their ears back. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/23 "2015-02-20T15:53:56Z")
Without reading the thread, No; I wouldn’t (don’t) get it. But then, I had to have ‘Here’s your sign’ explained to me since I never got into that genre of comedy. EDIT: OK, _The Mickey Mouse Club_. > [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Yeah, but the only version people knew or cared about was the 1955-60 original. I wasn’t born yet. . ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/24 "2015-02-20T16:19:33Z")
I wouldn’t have caught the reference, but once it was explained to me, I would have thought it was a cool thing to say. There’s no point in being obscure if \*everyone \*gets it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/25 "2015-02-20T16:22:29Z")
My first thought was that you were handing me some sort of communication device, like a CB radio or walkie-talkie. Yeah, I was pretty obsessed with the whole CB-radio culture when I was ten. 😃 “Got yer ears on, good buddy?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/26 "2015-02-20T16:31:45Z")
I knew instantly what you’re referring to, though I obviously only saw the show in reruns. If I was one of the new employees, I’d be thrilled and think “yay, someone who enjoys trivia”. ---
**Author:** ![chaika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chaika/32/405_2.png) [@chaika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/27 "2015-02-20T17:29:49Z")
I understand the reference. You’re an honorary Mouseketeer! The MMC was before my time but I remember watching the reruns decades later. If it happens to be Tuesday, I sometimes still find myself humming, “Today is Tuesday, you know what that means. . .” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/28 "2015-02-20T17:37:07Z")
> [@chaika](#): > > I understand the reference. You’re an honorary Mouseketeer! The MMC was before my time but I remember watching the reruns decades later. If it happens to be Tuesday, I sometimes still find myself humming, “Today is Tuesday, you know what that means. . .” Ohmigosh, I do that too, only I full on sing it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/29 "2015-02-20T18:22:13Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > That I agree with; I had no idea it just went on and on and on… Producing such future stars as Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake - all of whom were nineties-era Mouseketeers. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/30 "2015-02-20T18:37:30Z")
The only thing that came to mind was Mickey Ears, but I’m a big Disneyland fan and have several sets of ears. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/31 "2015-02-20T20:57:31Z")
I thought it was a variant on “I got yer nose.” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/32 "2015-02-20T21:19:20Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > I pass out the b-cards to new employees, and I’ve always said as I do “here’s your ears!” > > No one ever gets it. I personally think it’s funny as hell, knowing my company as I do. > > I’m just weird. :o Hold on. Hold on. You speak in inscrutable slang and OMGLOLspeak and you’re surprised no one understands you? I’m shocked. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/33 "2015-02-20T21:21:55Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I wouldn’t have caught the reference, but once it was explained to me, I would have thought it was a cool thing to say. There’s no point in being obscure if \*everyone \*gets it. If the point of being obscure it to make sure not everyone gets it, there’s no point at all. Only hipster kitties think like that. “Clear, comprehensible communications. That’s too mainstream.” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/34 "2015-02-20T21:21:29Z")
I would’ve got “Here’s your throat back, thanks for the loan”, but I’m wired that way, though I even wasn’t born yet when _that_ phrase was coined. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/35 "2015-02-20T21:33:38Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > If the point of being obscure it to make sure not everyone gets it, there’s no point at all. > > Only hipster kitties think like that. “Clear, comprehensible communications. That’s too mainstream.” Thanks!!! \ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/36 "2015-02-20T21:34:58Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Yeah, but the only version people knew or cared about was the 1955-60 original. I think people care about the 90s version, if only for the trivia of Christina Aguillera, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Ryan Gosling getting their starts there. (And a few others who went on to bigger and better things, but they all started at the same time, and are the biggest of the lot.) ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/37 "2015-02-20T21:41:47Z")
Nope. Way too obscure. There’s only one thing I’d say is public consciousness enough today from the Mickey Mouse Club that you could reasonably expect the average American to get… And that’d be: “M-I-C… c ya real soon!!!” but then if you find a situation where you can drop that one in a workplace, more power to ya. I guess calling a group of people “Mouseketeers” might work too, but again I don’t really know where. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/38 "2015-02-20T22:43:29Z")
Here’s is singular. Ears are plural. Here are your ears. One must always match count, mustn’t one? And Bobby fuckin’ creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/39 "2015-02-21T10:48:54Z")
I might have gotten it if you started with “Here’s your hat.” ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189/40 "2015-02-21T13:17:27Z")
If I had any context at all, yes I’d get it. Quite familiar with The Mickey Mouse Club TV shows. But from a new boss, handing me business cards, out of the blue? No, wouldn’t have a clue what the heck you were talking about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-said-to-you-heres-your-ears-would-you-get-the-reference/713189.md?page=3)