Heh! Tweety hasn't heard the phrase of "tin foil hat". His guests have to explain

[madinmaryland]

it to him.

Too funny!

[RKP5637]

1. Yeah, I heard that and wondered WTF, where has Tweety been. n/t

[Moondog]

2. Interesting. I've always thought that he didn't seem to be in touch

with the world outside the Beltway. He apparently needs to get out more.

[Supersedeas]

19. another sad commentary on a political commentator with a national platform

the most superficial political personality on television bar none

[Modern_Matthew]

3. Tell him they prevent random tingles down your leg. nt

[chbrad2]

6. Origin?

Okay smarties. Where did it originate?

[RKP5637]

13. Julian Huxley? n/t

[Jim Lane]

18. Wow, you're right. I never knew that. Pretty obscure reference!

According to :

The concept was mentioned in a science fiction story by Julian Huxley, "The Tissue-Culture King", first published in 1927, in which the protagonist discovers that "caps of metal foil" can be used to block the effects of telepathy.

[madinmaryland]

16. The thought of Tweety gettting a tingle down his leg...

:puke:

I think I gotta take a shower, but I don't know how I can cleanse my mind of that thought!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. You said Heh! just like Tweety. Very appropriate, I missed that segment but I

can hear him saying "tin foil hat? HEH!!".

[babylonsister]

5. So we know which website he doesn't read. nt

[mwb970]

7. Oh come on.

How could he have not heard that phrase by now? It's been around for years and years.

[tularetom]

8. f he didn't hear it at a beltway cocktail party, it didn't happen.

[kestrel91316]

9. What a moran.

[malaise]

10. I found that strange as well

:hi:

[senseandsensibility]

11. I've posted many times that Tweety is incredibly out of touch,

especially culturally. I still remember when he interviewed Sheryl Crowe live during the 2008 presidential race. She sat across the table from him in the studio and he looked scared to death. He seemed to be a hundred years old and "shocked" by a rock musician, as if he wasn't a young adult in the sixties. He actually reached out and touched her leather jacket, and said , "What's this?" Scary stuff, leather jackets, I guess, in Tweety's world.

[meow mix]

20. "What's this?"

:rofl:

[JBoy]

12. Actually neither of his guests was able to explain it properly, either.

They missed the essential "protection from mind readers" element.

[napoleon_in_rags]

14. And interference from the beams on thought.

The funny thing is that disruptions from magnetic beams on thoughts is totally well documented nowadays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtNPqCj-iA

[madinmaryland]

15. Yeah. If you are going to use a phrase, you should be able to explain it.

[janet118]

17. tin foil hat wearer = glenn beck