"Turkish shepherds look at dead sheep in the town of Gevas, near the city of Van, eastern Turkey, Thursday, July 7, 2005. First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, according to the Turkish media reported on Friday July 8, 2005. In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher. (AP Photo/Sukru Akyuz/IHA)"
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Big. Wooly. Lemmings.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm
Of course the myth is so ingrained that it still seves as an effective metaphor, just like "head in the sand".
OMG your userpic! I really want that in my kitchen to grate cheese on. I'd put it on a regular toilet paper holder and everything. That's fabulous.
Yours is bitchin too.
Love Chick Tract Icons.
Yup, I know. But I make a point of never letting facts get in the way of a livejournal comment.
Nor should you.
Of course nothing is stopping you from stating something to the effect of:
"Well no_brakes, I was comparing them to the culturally accepted myth of lemmings commiting mass suicide. Geez, no_brakes any idiot could have figured that out.
Cretin."
It was more the computer game.
Even better.
God forgot to give them umbrella parachutes.
"Let's go!"
Incidentally, plz find me a copy of Lemmings that works on OSX thx. (Not the DHTML thing, and not something that plays kinda like lemmings but doesn't actually have lemmings in it.)
I'd recommend the original Amiga versions (1, 2), but the best Amiga emulation I can find involves this plus this - looks hackish and painful.
http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/apps.php?f=amiga
That sounds like it might suck less than E-UAE + Hi-Toro, but emulation.net appears to be dead.
http://emulation.victoly.com/ looks like an emulation.net mirror. (Amiga section here.)
Yes, quite painful! It runs at around 5% of A1000 speed, and gurus before the game starts...
Your wish is my command.
Oh No! Not More Lemmings!
(OS 9 version, but it'll run correctly under Classic.)
I think my iMac didn't come with Classic...
That's odd. Sure it wasn't on one of the "extra software" CDs?
If not, I could zip up my System Folder for you and post that too, but it'd be easier (not to mention legally more proper) if you have your own copy around.
I keep an OS 9.22 install in a .dmg for the odd times when I use Classic.
May not be quite right, but this works for me on Linux, but dosbox should work on OS X :
http://www.holwegner.com/software/#DOSBox
Then :
Demo (maybe full?)
or
Legit from Amazon
I have seen a couple of sites claming that the original PC version runs reasonably well under DOSBox on OSX. Unfortunately, the Amiga version had far superior music.
Like others have suggested, if you can run DOSBox worth anything and don't mind playing the inferior DOS version, I'd be more than happy to hand over a copy of Lemmings. I'm not too terribly sure if a G5 will run the binary they provide, but I know that a G4 will.
Oh, and I can confirm that Lemmings runs pretty damn well under DOSBox, so you really needn't worry about having it crash in the middle of, say, taxing-rated level 13.
"Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher."
Depressed sheep might be a sign of end times, like, really
If your friends jumped off a cliff...
That's like the episode of South Park where the cows formed a cult and threw themselves off the cliff. TV is ruining young sheep minds!
"...Another fair question. One thing is for sure; a sheep is not a creature of the air. They have enormous difficulty in the comparatively simple act of perchin'. (crash) As you see. As for flight, its body is totally unadapted to the problems of aviation. Trouble is, sheep are very dim. Once they get an idea in their heads, there's no shifting it."
"But where did they get the idea from?"
"From Harold. He's that sheep there over under the elm. He's that most dangerous of animals, a clever sheep. He's the ring-leader. He has realized that a sheep's life consists of standing around for a few months and then being eaten. And that's a depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep. He's patently hit on the idea of escape.
(the rest of the sketch)
There is a reason my grandfather always called his sheep, "Lame brains."
The first one was a trailblazer, a leader, a rebel. The rest were just sheep.
"Team players."
Leader, or just really nearsighted. The distinction is subtle.
I guess the anal rape became unbearable.
Poor sheep.
Oh no -- wait -- it's Mad Sheep Disease. Better not eat any mutton ...
Dude, biblical!
Everyone knows the story of the demon-posessed man who replied “we are legion, for we are many” when Jesus found him by the shore and asked his name, right? Well, as that story unfolds, Jesus commands the demons to leave the man, and they beg him to allow them to take posession of the pigs in a nearby grazing herd instead, which he permits, upon which all 2,000 pigs jump off the close-by cliff and drown in the sea.
So maybe that account wasn’t fictional, much like tales of the demon-posessed are reminiscent of serious mental disorders like schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, and the like.