How Annoying Are the Olympic Mascots?

The Weekly Standard ^ | July 24, 2008 | Jaime Sneider

[SolidWood]

I hope the whole opening ceremonies are nothing but pandas and fireworks. Not together. That would be messy.

That would be FUN!

[Slings and Arrows]

[retrokitten]

He’s rehearsing for the opening ceremonies. ;-)

[MeekOneGOP]

:^D

[sitetest]

There are Olympic mascots?

Who knew?

[longtermmemmory]

the 2004 mascotts were Fibo and Athina (Fibo prounounced Fee-voh)

They were two artistic looking children. Adults made fun of them but the kids just loved them.

The mascotts are just marketing merchandising tools. Something to sell.

Given recent news stories, it would seem the new mascot should be Seringy the seringe.

[boogerbear]

About as annoying as all the other Olympic mascots.

[thefactor]

Voltron meets Hello Kitty.

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL!

Coug... ping to #4

[CougarGA7]

That is brilliant.

Just dont let my youngest see that. He is so hooked on Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones games that he would want to play Lego Tiananmen Square.

[Daffynition]

BA-DA-BING! "Olympic babies"..

[Slings and Arrows]

That is very disturbing.

[metmom]

They’re probably not too annoying if your two years old.

[metmom]

I dunno. This guy sure gave it a good shot.

That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw them.

[T Minus Four]

Don’t worry about it, I live near salt Lake City and I’ve already forgotten the mascots from those games. I remember something about copper and that they were embarrassingly stupid.

[silent_jonny]

I hope the whole opening ceremonies are nothing but pandas and fireworks. Not together. That would be messy.

LOL!!!

I predict we will see your worst fear: Dozens (perhaps hundreds) of adults dancing in life-size panda costumes :)

[retrokitten]

I predict we will see your worst fear: Dozens (perhaps hundreds) of adults dancing in life-size panda costumes :)

ROTFL! It's somehow simultaneously my greatest fear and my secret wish.

I bet at least one of them is going to shoot fireworks out of it's paws, too.

[silent_jonny]

It's somehow simultaneously my greatest fear and my secret wish.

LOL!

How about life-size dancing pandas ... with fireworks shooting out of their paws ... ON ROLLER-BLADES. Now that's an opening ceremony! :)

[retrokitten]

How about life-size dancing pandas ... with fireworks shooting out of their paws ... ON ROLLER-BLADES. Now that's an opening ceremony! :)

ROTFL!!! It sure is! I'd imagine they are also doing some kind of Busby Berkeley dance routine, too. Like this, but with pandas and fireworks and roller blades.

[retrokitten]

You know, it probably is a good thing we live so far apart. Because I don’t think we would get anything done if we lived closer. LOL We’d just sit around think up crazy things like this all the time.