who came up with if you see something say something
Allen Kay Since 1992, Kay's agency has been responsible for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's advertising. To give the MTA a human voice, Kay and his team created the "SubTalk" brand[14][15] by which MTA posts messages to riders in stations and on subway trains.[2] He coined the phrase, "If You See Something, Say Something"[16] for MTA's campaign to encourage riders to be part of MTA's security efforts.[17] Since 2002 the campaign has evolved from simple print ads to television spots, increasing the reporting of suspicious packages from 814 in 2002 to over 37,000 in 2003.[18][19] Today, more than 30 transit systems use a version of Kay's innovative "See Something, Say Something" campaign.[17]
See a man about a dog The earliest confirmed publication is the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud[2] in which a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog."[3][4] In a listing for a 1939 revival on the NBC Radio program America's Lost Plays, Time magazine observed that the phrase was the play's "claim to fame".[5]