Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 28, 2024

When all your relatives are crazy, you do the best you can.

Lemming version of the sole monkey among infinity who managed to type Hamlet.

The first Lemming 787 MAX

From then on this day was celebrated as the last day Lemmings jumped from a cliff and drowned.

By the way, they don’t actually do that. It was something Disney faked in a movie.

Isn’t that the DEFINITION of progress? Doing something we’ve always done (or wanted to do) but better?

Mostly the tradition is that of repeating this never-ever-even-remotely-true myth of suicidal lemmings.

How about letting the rest of ’em know how the invention works.

Always important to remember that In 1958 Walt Disney produced “White Wilderness,” part of the studio’s “True Life Adventure” series. “White Wilderness” featured a segment on lemmings, detailing their strange compulsion to commit mass suicide.

According to a 1983 investigation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee, the lemming scenes were faked. The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers. The epic “lemming migration” was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on snow covered lazy-Susan style turntable.

Special guest appearance by the ‘Pearls Before Swine’ lemmings.

They are on the Outer Banks.

I’m just here for all the comments about how lemmings don’t actually commit suicide.

“It’s tradition.” What people say when they are going to do something terrible.

Did you know you can crossbreed lemmings with flying squirrels? :D

There’s always one person in any crowd that won’t commit….

And this, children, is called unnatural selection.

I recall a SciFi story about lemmings. They were the degenerate descendants of aliens looking for their mother ship, which had sunk.

Lemings running off a cliff in mass was faked by Disney.

snopes . com / fact-check / white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/

Hey, that one’s cheating!

Scientologists with Tom Cruise in the middle.

Orville but no Wilbur?

Well, it would have been a good idea…if there hadn’t been a falcon circling over head.

Ooh! Leming meringue pie! My fave!

See the customary comments about the legend of suicidal lemmings and the Disney “nature” movie above. They are inevitable whenever a cartoonist uses a lemming theme.

In 1953, some years before the Disney movie, SF author Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story, “The Possessed”, which refers to the lemming mass suicide myth, apparently accepting it as fact. But he has an imaginative explanation for this behavior.

The Divergence of Religion and Science.

the ones behind are musing… “why didn’t I think of that??”

Like lemmings off a cliff the lemming factoids keep pouring in…

I myself have never lemmed.

That aircraft was named The Lemming Aide.

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.

Cool, the lemmings are evolving I see !

Researchers now think that the Tasmanian Tiger which was hunted to extinction because it supposedly preyed on sheep could not have killed any sheep at all because it physically could not bring down any animal that big, it mostly preyed on rodents, chickens and other small mammals.

There’s a strong resemblance to Red Bull Flugtag

I guess Robbie Coltrane was right… one day a lemming will fly.

That “plane” reminds me of the Dyna-Soar, from the days when Boeing was a name to be proud of.

Trump followers are using anvils instead – if not napalm …

The lifting body design never really worked.

Humans do this metaphorically all the time. The lemmings have better sense.

LOL …….. goo one, Wiley!

There’s always that one…