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Old 05-19-2010, 12:31 PM   #1
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All I have to say is.... WTF???


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Old 05-19-2010, 12:32 PM   #2
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What in sam hell is that.

One eyed squids are now Olympic Mascots?
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Old 05-19-2010, 12:34 PM   #3
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Awesome mascots. Nothing says Olympics like one eyed trouser snakes.
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Beware the walking penisis.
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Whoever is handling design elements of the 2012 games has some very strange ideas. First the logo, then the mascots.
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Looks like something someone with bad teeth eating blood pudding and driving on the wrong side of the road would design.

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Wow. That's horrible.
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No worse than the samsquatch etc... Vancouver came up with.
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Old 05-19-2010, 12:38 PM   #9
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The Vancouver mascots at least appealed to kids because of their cute factor. What do these do for kids at all? Yikes.
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Wow, hideous. What were they thinking...?
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No worse than the samsquatch etc... Vancouver came up with.
I wanted to post this in reference to Vancouver's borderline insane mascots, but I just dont believe it to be true.

Vancouver's mascots were weird, lame and came with the absolutely crappiest most drug-induced DNA splicing backstories you could imagine.

But these are worse. Far worse. Wenlock and Mandeville? The giant cocks? Sorry, even Vancouver's (insanely crappy) nutjob mascots weren't as bad as these.

Seriously. WTF is that thing? What?
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I wanted to post this in reference to Vancouver's borderline insane mascots, but I just dont believe it to be true.

Vancouver's mascots were weird, lame and came with the absolutely crappiest most drug-induced DNA splicing backstories you could imagine.

But these are worse. Far worse. Wenlock and Mandeville? The giant cocks? Sorry, even Vancouver's (insanely crappy) nutjob mascots weren't as bad as these.

Seriously. WTF is that thing? What?
I'll be honest, I dont really believe what I said. I just wanted to use the word samsquatch!
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Old 05-19-2010, 12:44 PM   #13
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If they hug each other, does that make the whole thing totally gay?
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I'll be honest, I dont really believe what I said. I just wanted to use the word samsquatch!
it's pronounced Samsquanch

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Considering how awful olympic mascots usually are, the Vancouver ones were pretty good, these guys are par for the course.

Besides, what purpose do the mascots serve? The only time I hear about them is usually years before the olympics themselves, when the olympics finally come around, the mascots pretty much disappear.
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If they hug each other, does that make the whole thing totally gay?
It all depends on your interpretation of alien one eyed squid on alien one eyed squid relations.
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Poor London.

Building up to the Olympics in the midst of the worst recession in recent memory, and having to follow the amazing show that Beijing put on last time.

I don't even think their events are going to be ready on time.

John Oliver had a great little quip about it during the Daily Show last week.
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Brought to you by the creators of the teletubbies?
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<----- No one be slagging on the first ever Olympic Mascot Sidekick, Muk Muk! He was the man!

These London mascots look like they belong in a tentacle rape anime. I'm freaked out.
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