We Had to Burn all the Oil in Order to Secure It | 29 comments (29 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I must correct you on one detail... (none / 1)

... the reference to lemmings being suicidal.

It is now known that, during the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary WHITE WILDERNESS, the film crew induced the hapless lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.

Snopes.

Disney -- the enemy of all that lives.

by Lupin on Wed Jun 20th, 2007 at 09:38:34 AM EST

Re: I must correct you on one detail... (4.00 / 2)

but [I splutter] I did say it was legendary.

if I believed the story was real I would have said notorious or something similar... perhaps I should have said apocryphal just to make it really really clear?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Wed Jun 20th, 2007 at 08:50:30 PM EST
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Re: I must correct you on one detail... (none / 1)

My apologies. I understood your "legendary" in the context of, say, "the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth." I stand corrected.

by Lupin on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 02:15:11 AM EST
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Re: I must correct you on one detail... (4.00 / 2)

oh right. I tend to forget the colloquial usage (which I confess always irritates me a bit, like 'reticent' used where 'reluctant' would have been correct). 'apocryphal' would have been clearer, though in this literate crowd it might have sparked a storm of contentious biblical scholarship :-)

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 07:09:36 PM EST
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and btw, no apology necessary and hello Lupin, nice to see ya, how's the expat life?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 07:10:46 PM EST
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That may be true of "white" lemmings.

But is it true of lemmings thru the color spectrum, adjusting for gradations, prenatal care,nutrition, nurturing,latch-key-neglect-sexual abuse status, elementary and high school trauma, sexual preferences?

Seems we need a longitudinal, multivariable study of lemmings, before we can come to a judgement.

"When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins

by EricC on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 02:02:21 AM EST
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