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05-19-2010, 07:47 PM
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05-19-2010, 07:52 PM
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05-19-2010, 08:08 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MiniMoose234  they kinda remind me of the red guy from the kids show yo gabba gabba. | Jack Black was great on that show(he guested once).
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05-19-2010, 08:10 PM
| | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | I'm offended that they're so inoffensive.
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05-19-2010, 08:31 PM
| | | I'm honestly curious here, what in the hell's the point of the mascots?
And I still think this is the best logo design:  |
05-19-2010, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by The Last Rebel I'm honestly curious here, what in the hell's the point of the mascots?
And I still think this is the best logo design: | Much better. At least it features an Olympic logo...something related to The Olympic Games.
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05-19-2010, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | are the olympic games a children's tv program?
why do they need a mascot? 
perhaps each country could bring a mascot. and then have them fight as a new event? 
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05-19-2010, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5 are the olympic games a children's tv program?
why do they need a mascot?
perhaps each country could bring a mascot. and then have them fight as a new event? | That would make three Olympic events I'd watch. Hockey, beach volleyball, and mascot fights. Maybe hire bums as the mascots and combine mascot fighting with the regal sport of bum fights.
And OP, you missed the, uh, hidden "message" behind that logo. |
05-20-2010, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by The Last Rebel That would make three Olympic events I'd watch. Hockey, beach volleyball, and mascot fights. Maybe hire bums as the mascots and combine mascot fighting with the regal sport of bum fights. | QFT, though I watch track too since I ran in HS.
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05-20-2010, 01:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Chicago, IL | | | You've got to be kidding me. You guys don't watch Curling?
As for the mascots, I wish I could have been there to hear the line of BS their creator used to sell them to the OC.
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05-20-2010, 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by The Last Rebel And OP, you missed the, uh, hidden "message" behind that logo. | Trying to keep the thread open as opposed to going into too much detail.
I really just wondered if others TB'ers visual 1st impressions were as *** as my own.
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05-20-2010, 02:09 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chico, California | | | I'm more interested to see whose behind the costume. And what horrible things they did in their past life to make them have to do this.
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05-20-2010, 03:06 AM
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05-20-2010, 03:37 AM
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Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5 why do they need a mascot? | mascot
-> merchandise of that mascot
-> people buy stupid crap
-> PROFIT
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05-20-2010, 08:44 AM
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ERASE ALL MEMORY
Problem of mascots = solved
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05-20-2010, 09:24 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | Woah...wait. UK - seriously what the heck?? First TeleTubbies and now this! If you tapped into some amazing source of acid to come up with these things, please be so kind to share it with us too please?
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05-20-2010, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic Woah...wait. UK - seriously what the heck?? First TeleTubbies and now this! If you tapped into some amazing source of acid to come up with these things, please be so kind to share it with us too please? | I thought it was a tribute to our outgoing Prime Minister, who famously had only one eye! 
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05-20-2010, 10:11 AM
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Yikes.
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05-20-2010, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by The Last Rebel And I still think this is the best logo design: | Look like this dirty video I once saw...
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05-20-2010, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic Woah...wait. UK - seriously what the heck?? First TeleTubbies and now this! If you tapped into some amazing source of acid to come up with these things, please be so kind to share it with us too please? | I speak for everyone north of the border when I say we had nout to do with this!
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