“It may interest you to know that I have made a lifelong study of lemmings, just as you have made a lifelong study of people. Like you, I have found but one thing about my subject which I do not understand.”“And what is that?” asked the lemming.“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.”“How curious,” said the lemming. “The one thing I don’t understand is why you human beings don’t.”
— from “Interview with a Lemming,” by James Thurber
A lot of early fans of “Game of Thrones” named their daughters “Khalesi,” the nickname of the female lead, Daenerys Targaryen. They weren’t happy as the series progressed and Khalesi turned into a mass-murdering lunatic.
“It may interest you to know that I have made a lifelong study of lemmings, just as you have made a lifelong study of people. Like you, I have found but one thing about my subject which I do not understand.”“And what is that?” asked the lemming.“I don’t understand,” said the scientist, “why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves.”“How curious,” said the lemming. “The one thing I don’t understand is why you human beings don’t.”
— from “Interview with a Lemming,” by James Thurber