From: Terry Groff <terrygroff.nul>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:53:31 -0600
Fwd Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:03:25 -0500
Subject: Re: 'Little Green Men'? - Groff


>From: Terry Groff <terry.nul>
>To: UFO Updates <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:16:39 -0600
>Subject: 'Little Green Men'?

>I was looking at the byline for tonight's rerun of The X-Files
>entitled "Little Green Men" and I was wondering if anyone on the
>List knows who coined the phrase or where it was first used (and
>why?).


Thanks to all who responded. I guess we may never know who
coined the phrase.

I remember in elementary school we use to play a kind of 'rumor'
game where we would all sit in a circle and the teacher would
whisper a phrase in the ear of one student and that student
would pass it on to the next and he/she would pass it on to the
next until it came back around to the original student. The rule
was that you had to whisper plainly enough for the next student
to hear it but you were not allowed to repeat it.

By the time the phrase made its way around it would be almost
entirely different than the original phrase.

I wonder if this might have happened with the phrase "Little
Gray(Grey?) Men".

Pure conjecture on my part.


BTW - Please note the change of email address above.


Terry