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Re:The Making of Lemmings by learnstats2 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:26AM (#9684979)
Any comment on lemmings being suicidal in popular culture is incomplete if it doesn't credit Disney for chasing a few of the "nasty little rodents" off a cliff.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

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Re:The Making of Lemmings by learnstats2 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:30AM (#9685773)
Very cool, every link! Interesting that the earlier references are to death by self-hanging.
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Re:The Making of Lemmings by aidos on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:37AM (#9685000)
I did like that note in the post "In the popular imagination, for some reason, we interpret this as consistent and collective suicide."

Where "some reason" is because TV told us so. I wonder where the original myth came from. Obviously the population fluctuation gave rise to it - but someone decided they were committing mass suicide. I'd love to know how much of a "fact" it was before the Disney piece.

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