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Ok, here's one for everyone to ponder. Back when I was young, in the dark ages (or so my kids tell me), aliens were generally described as being "little green men". Nowadays most ETs are described as "little grey men". Why is this, I wonder? Anyone have any ideas about this color change?
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I think I heard it was because of a book.
That doesn't help much, sorry lol, but at least it is a start.
That doesn't help much, sorry lol, but at least it is a start.
it's the human imagination that constantly changes the way things look and feel....just look at how things are always being reinvented....thats just our nature.
yeah the greens were from a story i think... the greys got really popular after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind
QUOTE(DakaSha @ Nov 23 2005, 11:35 AM) [snapback]945648[/snapback]
yeah the greens were from a story i think... the greys got really popular after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Yeah, but the greys in Close Encounters, were tall and thin. Our greys now are short, and sometimes even a little pudgy (according to witness descriptions). It seems wierd, but the greys have stuck around for a little while... now we are getting into the lizardmen era (as I like to call it), which seems farfetched, but possible none-the-less. We'll see if the greys stick around... And as far as the reason for the alien stereotype changing from green to grey, bad lighting
...Mind Freak has spoken!
Good question althought I can't answer it... guess they are grays now. Althought I still think of them as green not gray, but that's just me.
J.A.M.E.$.
J.A.M.E.$.
QUOTE(Mind_Freak2012 @ Nov 23 2005, 10:36 AM) [snapback]945734[/snapback]
Yeah, but the greys in Close Encounters, were tall and thin.
No, they weren't.
The only tall alien depicted in CE3K was (what I assume to be) the commander.
As to the term little green men, the following site gives a detailed look at it's origins.
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Electronic searches show that "little green men" was specifically used in reference to science fiction and flying saucers by at least 1951 in the New York Times and 1952 in the Los Angeles Times. The familiarity with which the term was used suggests that these weren't the first instances where it was applied to extraterrestrials. The next example of the New York Times using the term dates from 1955 in a book review of a sci-fi satire called Martians, Go Home. The Martians were obnoxious "little green men" whose appearance was "true to prophecy."
The term also shows up much earlier in rather surprising ways in other contexts. Movie gossip columnist Hedda Hopper used it in 1939 referring to small cast members of the Wizard of Oz, and admonished against drinking on the set. In 1942, the Los Angeles Times used the term in a pictorial on Marines training for jungle combat. In this case, "little green men" referred to camouflaged Japanese soldiers.
Before its more modern application to aliens, little green men was commonly used to describe various supernatural beings in old legends and folklore and in later fairy tales and children's books. Folklore researcher Chris Aubeck noted several examples of the latter in 19th and early 20th century literature. As an example, Rudyard Kipling had a "little green man" in Puck of Pook's Hill from 1906.
The term also shows up much earlier in rather surprising ways in other contexts. Movie gossip columnist Hedda Hopper used it in 1939 referring to small cast members of the Wizard of Oz, and admonished against drinking on the set. In 1942, the Los Angeles Times used the term in a pictorial on Marines training for jungle combat. In this case, "little green men" referred to camouflaged Japanese soldiers.
Before its more modern application to aliens, little green men was commonly used to describe various supernatural beings in old legends and folklore and in later fairy tales and children's books. Folklore researcher Chris Aubeck noted several examples of the latter in 19th and early 20th century literature. As an example, Rudyard Kipling had a "little green man" in Puck of Pook's Hill from 1906.
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Nowadays most ETs are described as "little grey men". Why is this, I wonder? Anyone have any ideas about this color change?
It just happens to be the color de jure.
QUOTE(theSOURCE @ Nov 23 2005, 04:50 PM) [snapback]946125[/snapback]
No, they weren't.
The only tall alien depicted in CE3K was (what I assume to be) the commander.
As to the term little green men, the following site gives a detailed look at it's origins.
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Dote (slaps self in the head), I knew that... sorry, my bad... I must have been thinking of one of a million other movies. Thanks for the correction.
Mind Freak has spoken!
do to the toxic gases in our hemisphere, most humans have become color blind without even really being aware of this.
This is why little green men now appear to be grey and more importantly the cause for traffic jams.
This is why little green men now appear to be grey and more importantly the cause for traffic jams.
I heard somewhere that when they rot they turn green. But where I can't recall.
QUOTE(Lilly @ Nov 23 2005, 09:25 AM) [snapback]945624[/snapback]
Ok, here's one for everyone to ponder. Back when I was young, in the dark ages (or so my kids tell me), aliens were generally described as being "little green men". Nowadays most ETs are described as "little grey men". Why is this, I wonder? Anyone have any ideas about this color change?
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To ?you ask y green to gray? well after the roswell crash in 1947 we say the first gray and realized that in fact they were gray colored and not green
I think the 'little green men' is a classic stereotypical view on what the general public thought of alien entities. It must have been picked up from fiction in movies and books (it would be great if Mr Ed could tell us the name of that book). I guess the view on aliens from space (Mars) was developed into these common little green aliens with the antenna’s on their head.
But due to the fact that the Grey aliens with the big head and big black eyes have only started becoming popular since the past 10-20 years, it raises some interest. I don’t think its entirely due to the Media that the Grey aliens have become more popular than the classic 'green men' interpretation. The evolution of this view on what aliens look like from green to grey must have been a result of more things like alien abductees accounts, incidents such as Roswell New Mexico 1947 as Ethan Cole pointed out. These are two possible ways in which the description of grey aliens could have been introduced. So, the Media is not the only explanation for green to grey. If the Fiction in Media can take real ideas from sources, and base fiction stories on real life cases then surely the fiction books and movies could have taken descriptions of aliens from these real life cases.
But due to the fact that the Grey aliens with the big head and big black eyes have only started becoming popular since the past 10-20 years, it raises some interest. I don’t think its entirely due to the Media that the Grey aliens have become more popular than the classic 'green men' interpretation. The evolution of this view on what aliens look like from green to grey must have been a result of more things like alien abductees accounts, incidents such as Roswell New Mexico 1947 as Ethan Cole pointed out. These are two possible ways in which the description of grey aliens could have been introduced. So, the Media is not the only explanation for green to grey. If the Fiction in Media can take real ideas from sources, and base fiction stories on real life cases then surely the fiction books and movies could have taken descriptions of aliens from these real life cases.
Good question Lilly and thanks for the article The Source,it makes sense.
There seem to be a growing anti grey club in Texas,were do I sign up.
http://www.watchingyou.com/deadgrey.html
"Grey aliens are such nitwits.After traveling millions of light years, the first thing they do when they get here is molest our cattle. Coring cattle anuses with "laser-like precision.."
There seem to be a growing anti grey club in Texas,were do I sign up.
http://www.watchingyou.com/deadgrey.html
"Grey aliens are such nitwits.After traveling millions of light years, the first thing they do when they get here is molest our cattle. Coring cattle anuses with "laser-like precision.."
Cow anus, cow lips
Perhaps Simon and Garfunkel were onto something when they released the song: "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"? 
mabey were just really confused
I guess that it could be that green aliens were coming here for a while and either they got bored with us or the greys took over this section of space. Maybe some other aliens will knock the greys out here and then we'll have Indigo aliens.
Maybe they were just seeing leprechans and thought that they were aliens.
Maybe they were just seeing leprechans and thought that they were aliens.
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