_ 1 N _ 2 I _ N 2
_ 3 _ 3 _ 1

I used the repeats to first find what _couldn't_ be it. Since the second letterof the last word has to be the last in the second, it has to be (if we stick with correct, at least somewhat common words) m, s, t, f, r, x, p, e, o, or y. This comes from a little chart of possible two letter words.

Of a pattern-matched list of common words that would fit the last (here is where a mistake would be... not as many matches as possible), this eliminates many of the words.

From these words, I then eliminated any with a t, m, or y at the end (they would make the first word nonsense with a consonant before the first 'n'). These three just happened to be the endings left of my list.

This left only words of the pattern _o_e for the last word.

_ e n _ 2 I _ N 2
_ o_ o _ e

The second word would probably be do, go, no, so, or to. (though no, so, and some of the others seem already unlikely).

When I ran the first word through a crossword solver (and crossed-out all words that did not have a same fifth and last letter), the single word I got was: Venusians.

This even works without the 'e' (and should have been what I did originally). 'Venusians' is apparently the only word with __n_2i_n2 in these dictionaries.

'Venusians' certainly fits with the show's concept.

So:
Venusians do _o_e
Venusians go _o_e
Venusians no _o_e
Venusians so _o_e
or, Venusians to _o_e

There are many words that fit the last, even excluding the previous letters. However, only one (that I've seen) makes a joke or says something interesting about their situation:
Venusians go home

So at 8:27 p.m. EST, Tuesday, March 30, 1999, let David Bradley state his guess of the phrase as Venusians go home

If this is not the phrase, I think it's quite funny of itself. Interplanetary racism is an element in sci-fi, I suppose - especially satirical sci-fi.

One thing that troubled me at first about this was: if it is in the alien alphabet, why it is telling an alien to go home? It doesn't work as a joke if another Venusian wrote it. So, I believe that an earthling who knows the alphabet wrote it. This little remark would be analogous to someone in the southern U.S. writing 'Mexicans go home' in Spanish. This would cause one to think that this 'Alien alphabet' is really the 'Venusian alphabet'. The only other explanation is that there are alien 'gangs' that would claim that turf as theirs, and the Venusians were trying to impose on their property, ergo an angry Martian (or whatever) spray paints on one of his walls 'Venusians go home'. This may work, as there are obviously different types of aliens, Leela being one type, the ones in the countdown scene another, and the large jello-like ones in the ads for next week yet another (yes, I haven't the privilege of seeing these future episodes or snippets of them that some seem to have). So this may work also, though I lean toward the first.

I haven't the time or energy to examine this further right now, so I will leave it to you, or anyone else you may want to send this to, to examine and critique.

So what did you think? Do you have the same logic? Did you come to the same conclusions? If not I would love to know your theory as I will post as many as make sense. Just send me an email at spinpuppet@earthlink.net and I will certainly look into it.

Thanks again,
Robert