Have you seen the old American TV cop show where Detective Joe Friday calms the person he is interviewing with a gentle, “Just the facts ma’am…just the facts”? Many people have. They think that this is Joe’s phrase and that it originated with Dragnet. But the facts are different. The phrase was actually uttered by Stan Freberg, a satirist who did a spoof of the show called, “St George and the Dragonet.