The new Olympic Mascots for London 2012, Wenlock and Mandeville. At least the one on the right has gappy, British teeth, though they appear to be spouting out of his head.
Yeah I think they spent about 300k quid on these things. Reminds me of when the Scottish Tourist Board paid some agency a few hundred thousand pounds to come up with a slogan for Scotland. Remember? They came up with "Welcome to Scotland". Brilliant!
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5 comments:
At least neither is wearing a burkha.
They look like line extensions of a certain...um, sexual device.
Yeah I think they spent about 300k quid on these things. Reminds me of when the Scottish Tourist Board paid some agency a few hundred thousand pounds to come up with a slogan for Scotland. Remember? They came up with "Welcome to Scotland". Brilliant!
All Olympic mascots are lame
Why don't they just re-tread those freaky little teletubbies? They'd be right at home in front of the rainbow.
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