If I said to you "Here's your ears"-would you get the reference?

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Until it’s time to say goodbye.

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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:

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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.

I wasn’t born yet.

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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.

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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. :smiley:

“Got yer ears on, good buddy?” :slight_smile:

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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”.

27

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. . .”

28

Ohmigosh, I do that too, only I full on sing it :stuck_out_tongue:

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Producing such future stars as Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake - all of whom were nineties-era Mouseketeers.

30

The only thing that came to mind was Mickey Ears, but I’m a big Disneyland fan and have several sets of ears.

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I thought it was a variant on “I got yer nose.”

32

Hold on. Hold on.

You speak in inscrutable slang and OMGLOLspeak and you’re surprised no one understands you?

I’m shocked. :dubious:

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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.”

34

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.

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Thanks!!!

<this hipster kitty checks her drivers license and yup, it still says born in 1949.
DAMMIT! >

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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.)

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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.

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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.

39

I might have gotten it if you started with “Here’s your hat.”

40

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.