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    Default London's Olympic 2012 Mascots must be stopped.

    They say that the Olympics are supposed to be drug free. I guess that didn't apply to which ever focus groups thought up the ideas for Wenlock and Mandeville.



    Not content with the logo being Lisa Simpson giving head, we get Kodos and Kang or possibly the offspring of the Teletubbies and the Michelin Man.

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    I must say that when Brits go all out.... they go all out. Why ONE eye? Harking back to the Cyclops? Seriously, if these things had 2 eyes, they'd be cute as hell.

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    I think you're right about it being the offspring of Teletubbies and the Michelin Man.

    Bizarre.

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    The blue and white one looks either as if he's pissed himself, or as though he's a naked Smurf in white chaps.
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    At the risk of displaying far too much of my viewing habits at one point in my life I'm wondering why the London Olympic Committee has chosen two obviously kiddified tentacle monsters for their mascots.

    It does fit with the "Lisa Simpson giving head" theme, though.

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    I don't know, what alternative mascot design would you prefer?

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    Quote Originally posted by hatesfreedom View post
    I don't know, what alternative mascot design would you prefer?
    A lion and a unicorn, maybe?

    Although two-legged lions and unicorns would be equally weird, so I don't know.

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    I would pay cash money to see those guys do battle with with Boohbahs.


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    Quote Originally posted by OneCentStamp View post
    The blue and white one looks either as if he's pissed himself, or as though he's a naked Smurf in white chaps.
    The white seems clearly outside the blue, which puts me on the "chaps" side. Though I was thinking "crotchless unitard" myself.

    Which one is Manlock and which one is Wendevil?

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    Beyond saying, "Dumb, stupid, ugly and ludicrous", what can a person say?
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    It's not quite as good as the 2012 Olympics logo.

    It's not nearly as good as those adorable little pandas from the 2008 Olympics either.

    Seriously, what the fuck happened to you guys, England? You used to have a globe spanning empire that the sun never set on. Now you have abstract representations of underaged cartoon characters having sex, and you have these things which look like they were inspired by this music video:

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    This makes me feel so much better about Atlanta's mascot from '96.

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    Quote Originally posted by Glazer View post
    This makes me feel so much better about Atlanta's mascot from '96.

    Looks like an escapee from SchoolhouseRock

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    What IS that thing? Some kind of indigineous Georgian creature? Or is it what you see after too much Georgia moonshine?


    Nobody, not even the Japanese, can get as weird as the Brits when they want to...





    I didn't spell indiginous correctly, but I'm typing sans mouse and don't know how to do spellcheck w/o it.

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    Nobody could figure out what it is. That's why they named it "What is it" or "Izzy" for short. I'm so embarrassed. Now I must laugh at London to make myself feel better. At least we only had one stupid mascot. Y'all got two and each is twice as stupid. So there.
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    It all makes perfect sense when you've been snorting Columbian marching powder all night whilst having a brainstorming session.
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    Quote Originally posted by hatesfreedom View post
    I don't know, what alternative mascot design would you prefer?
    Some NSFW interpretations can be found here. Nearly all of them are better than what the Brits got.
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