Disney Language Question- Meet and Greet

[Prof Ecks]

I have a quick question about the phrase (and related Disney Behavior) "Meet and Greet." Is that a bit of Disneyese or did they get the phrase from somewhere else?

The reason I ask is that I was listening to NPR yesterday morning driving up from New Orleans to Jackson MS and there was a story about how the troops in Iraq are going out into neighborhoods to distribute things like magazines, newspapers, etc. And the U.S. military calls them "Meet and Greets". I was wondering if we were seeing a bit of Disney behavior and language making its way into another venue....this case PR ops in Iraq.

thanks

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

I think it's more of a public relations term that Disney just picked up.

 

[Thrawn]

No, meet and greet has been around a lot longer than Disney has been using it.

 

[Prof Ecks]

thanks!