# Now, lemming get this straight. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 20, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150 "2001-07-20T04:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/1 "2001-07-20T04:28:28Z")
I think most of us are familiar with the myth that lemmings are prone to commit mass suicides. However. . . when I was a chow, I could have sworn I saw some documentary or something where lemmings were jumping off a cliff en masse. What was going on there? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/2 "2001-07-20T04:33:53Z")
Snopes is your friend. 😃 [http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm](http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/3 "2001-07-20T04:48:46Z")
I should have known that they would have already ferreted out the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/4 "2001-07-20T04:52:44Z")
It was your responsibility to check, Mjollnir, don’t try to weasel out of it. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/5 "2001-07-20T05:17:53Z")
**You otter know better** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/6 "2001-07-20T06:13:16Z")
You guys have got the wrong family - lemmings are rodents. But you should’ve known they wouldn’t do it of their own vole-ition. ---
**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/7 "2001-07-20T13:19:19Z")
[attempting to be clever] Yeah and you guys should know not to monkey around like that. Doh! [/attempting to be clever] ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/8 "2001-07-20T15:40:21Z")
Oh rats, why did I open this thread??? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/9 "2001-07-20T15:52:39Z")
now, that’s not very mice of you. You rodent want some one to be mean to you, right? I mouse leave now, but may be rat back, if I’m capabara of it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/10 "2001-07-20T17:04:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > **…when I was a chow…** You dirty dog! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/11 "2001-07-20T21:01:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yabob \* > **You guys have got the wrong family - lemmings are rodents.** **Yabob** is right - lemmings are stoatally different ---
**Author:** ![cmburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@cmburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmburns)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/12 "2001-07-21T00:20:58Z")
I really don’t gopher this kind of Mickey Mouse thread. It’s just too squirrelly, and not mentally nutria-itious. ---
**Author:** ![dave316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dave316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave316)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/13 "2001-07-21T01:04:33Z")
there is a book called "How Lemmings Avoid The Rat Race by mike tmouse its a rather large book at over 1000 pages so you might want to use cliff notes ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-lemming-get-this-straight/73150/14 "2001-07-21T01:45:36Z")
Lemming outta here before I get trapped with these bad puns. Cheese!!