retired_irisjade

When I was a market research interviewer a few years back we did a job ringing around pet stores pretending to be interested in getting banned/strange animals to see what they said about them. One of the questions on the script was "I have a baby in the household. Is there anything I should know?"

I had to make a call pretending to be interested in getting a Racoon (banned I think).

"So are they dangerous?"

"Not really, but they will bite if you get your fingers in the way"

"I have a baby in the household. Is there anything I should know?"

"Oh... a racoon will make a right mess of a baby." Short pause "So, how many of them do you want?"

retired_lina2212

what a rad game :cool: :thup:

retired_0PETE1

Lemmings ifb.

retired_mp2121

Genius!!!

BobbyK

San

While many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, this is not the case. Driven by strong biological urges, they will migrate in large groups when population density becomes too great. Lemmings can and do swim and may choose to cross a body of water in search of a new habitat[5]. On occasion, and particularly in the case of the Norway lemmings in Scandinavia, large migrating groups will reach a cliff overlooking the ocean. They will stop until the urge to press on causes them to jump off the cliff and start swimming, sometimes to exhaustion and death. Lemmings are also often pushed into the sea as more and more lemmings arrive at the shore. [6]

The myth of lemming mass suicide is long-standing and has been popularized by a number of factors. It is usually stated that the main source of the belief in the suicide myth was propagated by The Walt Disney Company documentary White Wilderness which includes footage of lemmings migrating and running head-long over a ledge. An investigation in 1983 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Brian Vallee, showed that the Disney film makers faked the entire sequence using imported lemmings (bought from Inuit children), a snow covered turntable on which a few dozen lemmings were forced to run, and literally throwing lemmings into the sea to show the alleged suicides. [7]