The End Of The World As We Know It....

In fifth grade I read an SRA card (remember those?) about the lemming suicide phenomena and I have loved lemmings ever since. They make a wonderful sarcastic mascot! But sometimes you learn that the world as you knew it was all a lie. LIES....ALL LIES....

"One myth deeply entrenched in our language is that of the "Lemming Suicide Plunge" - where lemmings, apparently overcome by deep-rooted impulses, deliberately run over a cliff in their millions, to be dashed to their deaths on the rocks below, or to drown in the raging ocean. Indeed, this myth is now a metaphor for the behaviour of crowds of people who foolishly follow each other, lemming-like, regardless of the consequences." http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm