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[rec.arts.comics.strips] Re: Free Range anyone?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:15 pm    Post subject: [rec.arts.comics.strips] Re: Free Range anyone? Reply with quote
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Subject: Re: Free Range anyone?
From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)

In article <85wsmjvmy7.fsf@bizet.nethelp.no>,
Cindy Kandolf <cindy@bizet.nethelp.no> wrote:
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"Peter B. Steiger" <see.sig@for.email.address> writes:
I do feel compelled, though, to remind y'all that "lemmings going over a a
cliff" is a myth and part of Disney's dark, sinister past. They did a
documentary on lemmings in 1958 and the crew was so desperate to capture
an "authentic" suicide scene that they herded some lemmings over a cliff,
thus perpeptuating the myth and earning the distinction of being the first
G-rated snuff film.

Lemmings do not commit suicide, of course. Nor do they migrate in
great herds.

Like many small, fast-breeding critters, though, lemmings do
experience population crashes. During these crashes, it happens that
some drown, and some others die near water and their dead bodies
end up falling into it. (In the old days this was not a whole lot of fun
if you needed to *drink* that water.) I can see where the myth got started.

When life gives you lemmings..

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