The Age of Monstrous Ears

[WSUCougar]

Okay, I imagine this thread will quickly dissolve into something else, but I'm actually asking this as a legitimate question:

Does anyone know why older men tend to have those humongous, Dumbo-sized ears? It seems like a large percentage of them, and I'm wondering if it's just a sign of aging or if it's based on something else (God only knows what).

[gottimd]

I googled that and came up with this (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/Mar2003/1048719208.Dv.r.html)

[st.cronin]

"The Age of Monstrous Ears" would be a phenomenal name for a rock band.

[Calis]

Yeah I've wondered this myself, and came up with your ears never stop growing.

No idea if that's the case or not, and didn't care enough to delve deeper. ;)

[mhass]

That article hit on it. Cartilage never stops growing. Noses work the same way.

[Ksyrup]

I'm not sure about noses, but as far as ears go, maybe we're focusing on the wrong thing - the ears have stayed the same size, but the lack of hair makes them appear to be sticking out further? I don't know.

[JPhillips]

I'm also very concerned with the amount of long, black hair in old guys' ears.

[WSUCougar]

Interesting. So hypothetically, if we continue to make advances so that we age longer, our ears will be that much larger? Tim McCarver is 120 years old, and his ears are the size of Rhode Island?

[hhiipp]

They get bigger so they can trap sounds to help old men hear.

[QuikSand]

Oh.

Thought this might be a sequel to Age of Empires and Age of Mythology. I wasn't sure where the series was going... this made as much sense as anything.


Carry on, then.

[WSUCougar]

LOL

I'd probably buy it.

[Coffee Warlord]

http://home.online.no/~kgroenn/disney/dumbo/dumbo17.gif

[Tara]

Gravity...In the end that force never stop to act, so old men's less elastic skin is streched.
Look at the old ladies' ears who put too heavy earrings...
Could be logical?

[mrsimperless]

Earses and noses both do not stop growing.

[tategter]

Or maybe their heads just shrink during old age, making the nose and ears appear to be larger.