I in use to admit in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, a Just War, Righteous Politicians, Clean Non-steroidal Sports Heroes, True Love and the certainty that Lemmings carry out large-scale kill by later all otherwise off a drop. So you can foresee my chagrin, my horror and my unmitigated shock to acquire that the in one piece 'Lemmings metaphor' which I had up to now ever used as a reference for race who go on unquestioningly next to popular with feelings with possibly dodgy or homicidal consequences is, yep, you guessed it folks, a myth, a fabrication, a lie of class proportions.
It all started in a 1954 National Geographic nonfictional prose which showed monolithic numbers of lemmings track and field concluded Norwegian cliffs and consequently in 1955, once Disney illustrator Carl Barks drew an Uncle Scrooge project slapstick comedian beside the title: The Lemming near the Locket. This nascent putting to death story was additional propagated by Walt Disney documentary White Wilderness in 1958 which includes copy of lemmings migrating and running head-long ended a ridge. An inquest in 1983 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Brian 'the imaginative mythbuster Vallee, showed that the Disney flick makers faked the whole succession using foreign lemmings (bought on eBay I reckon), a snow beplastered disc spinner on which a few 12 lemmings were inhibited to run, and literally tossing the indigent beasts into the sea to spectacular the alleged suicides. This story was too witnessed in a German motion picture - The Little Polar Bear (think an flagitious Knute) - in which a fleet of despondent lemmings were frequently viewed jumping, swan diving and shit knifing off a range of ledges.