"Tin foil hat" = signs reference?

[slackerinabox]

are you geeks referencing signs or did that saying exist before then? i didn't think the movie was good enough to be enough of a cultural phenomenon to be referenced so frequently.

 

[imported_Trippin315]

It came before, otherwise, how would they know about it in the movie?

 

[loup garou]

Seriously?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tinfoil+hat

 

[Toasthead]

man...thats been around FOREVER

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tinfoil+hat

I know what it means, I'm just wondering how long the saying has been around.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tinfoil+hat

I know what it means, I'm just wondering how long the saying has been around.

A lot longer than Signs.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

It's probably been around longer than the radio.

 

[Looney]

Out of curiosity, how old are you?

 

[Linflas]

It has defintely been around longer than that movie.

Tin Foil Hats

 

[Amused]

Longer than I've been alive, and I'm almost 40.

 

[SlitheryDee]

How dare you associate such a grand tradition with that piss poor movie.

 

[Saint Nick]

it was probably more like signs using the tin foil hat reference rather than signs innovating the tin foil hat reference