The Flying McCoys by Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy for May 26, 2010

The typical lemming doesn’t jump off the cliff; he is pushed off by the pressure of the other lemmings behind him. Norway lemmings do overpopulate an area, eat up all of the food, and mass migrate to new locations.

If you’d like a parallel in the animal kingdom, look at the annual mass migration of wildebeests (gnus) in Africa. There was a nice IMAX movie made about it, which showed them being pushed over cliffs into rapidly running rivers filled with crocodiles. Other predators would follow the migration and pick off the stragglers.

I thought the lemmings-cliff thing was a Disney creation, and is completely untrue…but gets perpetuated by ignorant people like McCoy.

Gary’s worked 25 hours the last two days. At least I think my name is Gary.

I believe everything I read in the 70s about lemmings in the Nat Lampoon. Have I express my political views.

I wouldn’t chalk it up to ignorance, or overwork. Cartoonists often use stereotypes for humor. This isn’t a documentary.

Unfortunately, too many people don’t see them for what they are…CARTOONS!

these are cartoons, i thought it was a family photo album with words added

Lemmings rushing over cliffs en masse is too valuable a popular trope to retire simply because it isn’t true.

Besides, it doesn’t matter what we know, it’s what the lemmings believe that counts. Thousands of years of superstitious indoctrination has convinced them that, if they leap off cliffs, they’ll fall UP to a paradisal lemming afterlife above the clouds.

(“Lemming” is such a fun word. Lemming. La-la-la-lemming. Lemmmmmmmmming. Lemming lemming lemming lemminglemminglemminglemminglemming… Do you like “Lemming”? I don’t know, I’ve never lemmed.)

If the Democrats can do it! you can follow right along with them!

And Lemmings don’t speak English, and don’t have stoves, and Lemming mothers probably don’t nag their children, and probably don’t wear lipstick - anything else?

I LIKED the cartoon - it IS a cartoon, it is NOT a Discovery Channel special on Lemmings.

Lemmings jumping off cliffs doesn’t actually kill them, it’s part of their migration route. They head for a hole in the bottom of the sea which leads straight through the center of the Earth and takes them to China, where they live half the year upside down. Six months later, they jump off a cliff in China and travel back through the hole to us. The absence of an equal and opposite legend of sodden hordes of lemmings crawling from the oceans is the result of a conspiracy of silence among the scientists and the Mainstream Media.

Teeming sopping lemmings creeping! Teeming sopping lemmings creeping! Teeming sopping lemmings creeping!

ROTFLMAO, Fritzoid

Everything I ever wanted to know about lemmings but didn’t ask.

Got me thinking about a nice lemming meringue pie! “If life gives you lemmings, follow them off the cliff.”

Thanks, Sheik. That was gnus to me.

Ray C, would meringue going over the cliff be a dropping lemming topping?

Given all the popular misconceptions about these noble creatures, I’m organizing an All-Star benefit concert to raise public awareness. I’m calling it Lemming-Aid.

I love lemming meringue pie with a layer of chocolate mouse.

@fritzoid!

VERY funny! Great comments people! Anyone ever add a comic to their collection based on the comments? I have today!