Posted on 07/05/2005 10:27:26 AM PDT by MetaCon
Greenlighters are an emerging underground movement of sexually promiscuous teenagers, including bisexual, homosexual, and heterosexual members. Members of this movement wear a green polo shirt with the collar up, indicating that they are open to pretty much any sexual adventure. When someone comes up to them and puts the collar down, they are "collared" and will go with that person and do whatever sexual act they ask. Transfer of money is not usually involved. Some parent groups are starting to get involved - urging parents to go through their kids clothes and confiscate green shirts and polos. Supposedly this has been going on since mid-2004 and may be related to the "chavs" in Britain somehow.
Not relevant in this case. They said that the LSD-laced stamps and the sex bracelets were both hoaxes. This is the same sort of thing.
If you're implying that it's all a hoax, there's a whole lot of work that went into the site. They also mentioned that someone hacked into it over the weekend and they just got it back up.
So the only evidence you can find to support this website's authenticity is... the same website? That doesn't even begin to pass a smell test.
Whatever it is, I check out all threats on my family.
One would presume that you only check out realistic threats against your family. Otherwise you'd spend so much time running around investigating alien abductions, rabid Boojums on the loose or ghosts prowling your neighborhood that you'd have little time for anything else.
Since I see no one else wearing collared shirts collar up, I will pursue it with this kid at church.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall for that conversation. "I read on the Internet that the way you wear your shirt means you're into casual sex...."
Or since it's a new poster, should I just poo-poo it and make some kind of sarcastic remark?
When somebody posts this kind of nonsense on their first day, and can only support it with "I got it in an e-mail, so I know it's true", then yes, a high degree of skepticism is required. We didn't check our brains at the maternity ward door, after all. Being a parent doesn't have to mean being easily duped, no matter what our kids would like to believe.
I suspected a liberal bias from them from some things I looked up.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Where did wearing pants like that become popular?
Does Kevin Bacon know any of these people?
Probably all of them. Ferris Bueller, too.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
Oh, I'm not saying Snopes is always wrong. They just aren't like stone tablets or anything.
Heck, anyone can Google.
If your son leaves the house with an earring in his right ear and a gold or brown bandana in his back pocket, you know you're in trouble.
I seem to remember Ricky Schroeder wearing a green polo shirt with the collar turned up on Silver Spoons when I was a kid. I guess he was "spooning" with Alfonso.
SAVE FERRIS!
People are going to think you're crazy. Lots of kids are wearing their collars up these days. I think it looks stupid, but this is not a sinister trend involving weird sexual fetishes.
He'll look at you no matter what. And everyone will still think you're crazy.
New rumor: Guys who wear du-rags are on "the down low." If they wear RED du-rags, they are flamingly gay.
Lol..
I'm thinking this website is a lot of BS. None of the posters on that forum have joined up any earlier than July 2nd, 2005. Doesn't that seem odd to you?
And that makes a good cover story for why the site appears new.
However, if an internet site has a real background, other sites will have noticed it in the past, linked to it.
And those references and links will have been untouched when "somebody hacked into our site"
Find web pages that contain the term "www.greenlighter.org"No electron trail: do the math
Result: 4 pages (including the original site; none dated before July 3
Links: Your search - link:b50AAcnFycsJ:www.greenlighter.org/ - did not match any documents.
I did find this tho, it has been around before, but it always makes me laugh:
Subject: IT'S JUST A GREEN SNAKE
Green Garden Grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.
A couple in Rockwall, Texas had a lot of potted plants, and during a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream. The husband, who was taking a shower, ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the leg. He thought the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he'd had a heart attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded him on the stretcher and started carrying him out.
About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is in the hospital at Garland. The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor man. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief. But in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it would need stitches. The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed he had been bitten by the snake. She went to the kitchen, brought back a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake. They called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table that was on one side of the sofa. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who, startled, jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car and set it on fire. Meanwhile the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house was blazing.
Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving fire-truck had started raising its ladder as they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and put out the electricity and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area of south Rockwall along Texas State Route 205.
Time passed .......... Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was re-built, the police acquired a new car, and all was right with their world .....
About a year later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
She shot him.
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