Oh no! No more lemmings (possibly)

robert@fm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7711709.stm

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/11/06/climate-change-threatening-lemmings/

:(

dm_boozefreek

Doesn't matter they're all gonna jump off a cliff anyway.

robert@fm

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

Doesn't matter they're all gonna jump off a cliff anyway.

Actually, no -- that's an urban myth (the f*ckwits doing the Disney documentary Wild Wilderness couldn't find something to film, so they fabricated this)...

dm_boozefreek

You do realise I wasn't being serious? :D

ewgf

robert@fm wrote: »

Actually, no -- that's an urban myth (the f*ckwits doing the Disney documentary Wild Wilderness couldn't find something to film, so they fabricated this)...

Actually, that is an urban myth :)

According to QI,

"Lemmings do not commit suicide by jumping off cliffs. The myth was first noted in a children's encyclopedia in 1908. (Forfeit: Myth Invented by Disney)"


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QI_episodes_(D_series)

bohusk

Don't worry, it's going to be Xmas Lemmings. :)

beanz

Neither of them are urban myths as they happened in the countryside, not the city :D making them rural myths