Furry Icarus
Recall the infamous Lemming snuff film from Disney, White Wilderness. I hadn't seen this since elementary school. It was a complete fabrication- the amiable wolf snacks were, in fact, flown from Hudson Bay to um, Calgary, and then launched off a cliff using a turntable.
The truth is always stranger. It's Walruses that plunge off cliffs.
posted by JAB at 9:12 PM
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From the Wikipedia article on lemmings:
"In the 1530s, the geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather (also featured in the folklore of the Inupiat/Yupik at Norton Sound), and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring. This myth was refuted by the natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that the lemmings could fall out of the sky but that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation."
"Walruses" always looks like it's spelled wrong.
Man, they showed us some weird shit. Odd memories from Elementary School:
- A woman came to teach us how to brush our teeth, and told us over and over that we must have Fluoristat (tm) in our toothpaste. I asked about fluoride, she said she'd never heard of it.
- A guy came a showed us some asbestos. He held up fire to it, and it didn't burn. He showed us it was just like cloth fabric, with frayed fibers on the edges and everything.
- Another guy came and showed us mercury.
- Oh yeah, movies. Remember this one?
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