"little green men" / "take me to your leader" origin?

[Mullins, Bill]

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> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: "little green men" / "take me to your leader" origin?
>
> The quotes around "flying saucers" meant so-called "real"
> "flying saucers" (UFOs), not incontrovertibly fictional
> flying "saucers."
>
> But that is a neat "illo."
>

"Fictional" flying saucers?  The heck you say.  Where's my aluminum hat
. .  .