People dont belive me when i say John Lennon is a metal head...but now i win.

[dem00n]

 

SUCK IT *****ES!

[DeVeeWee]

Damn man, I thought your were joking but John is really one of us!!!

 

[dem00n]

Thats an acutal argument going on about who auctal started it.

Dio or Lennon...

[BigKahune]

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[Riverside]

Hook 'em horns! (Since at least 1955...)

 

[Riffster]

No doubt the hand sign existed before Dio but he used it in the Heavy Metal context and its use became widespread.

 

You can go back to Italy in the middle ages and most likely people used the sign but there was no heavy Metal music.

[ShredAstaire]

Haven't any of you (besides StiffHand) seen "Metal: A Headbangers Journey"? Great documentary....the sign in Italy was the Evil Eye....he stole it from his grandmother! :)

[Riverside]

It was also used to describe the difference between positions on the trombone in the 17th century...

 

But given how metal-heads like to argue about inconsequential nonsense, I suppose that one or more of them would claim to have invented it.

[ShredAstaire]

The great thing about Dio is that he never claimed to have invented it....other people claim it for him!

[GIANTRobOT42O]

Dio said his Grandma taught him that to keep demons away.

[Riffster]

Hey Elvis did not invent sideburns yet a lot of people associate them with him...

[WahKeen]

People said Al Gore didn't invent the internet, but he said he did...

[Mr. Natural]

acutal al gore dint invint the internet but he did acutal invint globul warmng

[AXE®]

lolz

[deepblue]

It means "Hang Ten" in surfer language.

 

The great thing about Dio is that he never claimed to have invented it....other people claim it for him!

 

...and if Metal fans are anything at all, they are astute!

[ShredAstaire]

It means "Hang Ten" in surfer language.

 

No thats the thumb and pinky....

[deepblue]

No thats the thumb and pinky....

 

 

Ok, than its "I love you" in sign language....and I dont btw...lets stay friends.