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09-28-2004, 11:58 AM | #1 |
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9/28/2004: 2006 olympic mascots
Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2006 Turin winter olympic mascots. But wait, they have a costume version. Soon to be frightening children everywhere! |
09-28-2004, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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What the hell are those supposed to be? And why does the blue one have a block head?
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09-28-2004, 12:29 PM | #3 |
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Oh ye gods...I don't know if those are better or worse than Greece's 2004 mascots.
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09-28-2004, 12:30 PM | #4 |
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09-28-2004, 12:32 PM | #5 |
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Obviously celebrating the ancient Italian anthropomorphic marshmallow cult.
Why didn't they dress mascots up like the Shroud? Now *that* would have high public recognition!
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09-28-2004, 12:32 PM | #6 |
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Just guessing, but their names..."Snow" and "Ice"? That *would* explain the square (ice cube) head on the one on the right, and in blue. Anyone? Bueller?
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09-28-2004, 01:28 PM | #7 |
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The only mascot they need
There's only one. A giant green stuffed dollar bill. Or whatever currency they use in Turin. No wait, it's mostly American TV that makes the money. Might as well be a dollar bill.
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09-28-2004, 01:56 PM | #8 |
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I wonder who comes up with these things. They don't appear to be very "atheletic" to me. Tell me......... do they only have one tooth, or did they outgrow their dentures? I've heard your vision is very limited when wearing one of these huge costumes. Disaster: One of these guys backing into a swimming pool..............
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09-28-2004, 02:54 PM | #10 |
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The last decent mascots were for Salt Lake City. With this new ice cube thing, I suppose I no longer feel too ashamed at Atlanta's. No, wait, I still weep over that blue... thing. Ugh.
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09-28-2004, 03:11 PM | #11 |
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I think they're kind of cute. terrifyingly cute, but cute nonetheless. I like them better than the blobs Athens came up with, and they certainly couldn't get any worse than Izzy, the demonspawn mascot of Atlanta's games.
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09-28-2004, 03:15 PM | #12 |
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Mildly interesting article found while googling for pics of mascots from Olympiads past. I was looking for a reasonably complete webpage with decent sized pics of each mascot.
This was the best I found, though it's a bit out of date. Last edited by perth; 09-28-2004 at 03:17 PM. |
09-28-2004, 03:28 PM | #13 |
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I think the Athens mascots were better than these. Those actually had historical backround. Yes, those things had a meaning. --
"Phevos and Athena, the brother and sister mascots of the 2004 Olympics, might be considered a step above the usual stuffed toy Olympic merchandisers come up with every two years, if only because this particular mascot has hundreds of years of history behind it. The male and female dolls, whose gender is only distinguished by either blue or orange dress, are based on a bell-shaped doll from the seventh century BC. And, they are named for two Olympian Gods: Phevos, god of light and music and Athena, godess of wisdom and patron of Athens." you can find that here- http://openhere.com/current/496787895.stm What does an ice cube and a snowflake have to do with culture??
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09-28-2004, 03:39 PM | #14 |
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