Dancing penis escapes from Olympic designer’s office – Lord Sir Seb Coe isn’t fast enough these days to catch it.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by Charon QC

Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville branded ‘patronising rubbish’

Telegraph... they are not that different from the pic above… astonishing

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on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 8:49 pm Elizabeth Miles

I doubt it will please all of the people all of the time, nor, indeed, any of the people any of the time.
on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 9:16 pm John Flood

Wasn’t it Barry Humphries in Private Eye who used to refer to the one-eyed trouser snake. Now with the 2012 Olympics we have two of them. Wonderful bounty!
on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 10:46 pm piSquared2010

I see your point (so to speak!)
on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 11:25 pm Pam Nash

Oh dear. I like the mascots and the fact that kids have had input into the characters and the supporting backstory book. Does this make me strange/eccentric/obtuse? Answers on a postcard
on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 11:57 pm charonqc

Pam: I didn’t realise kids had had input…. They are a bit bizarre though…..

Hey… at the end of the day.. if people like them it doesn’t matter what bloggers and tweeters think!

They do look a bit weird and remarkably like our new PM and DPM…. those kids are clever peeps to have predicted that.
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on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 1:21 pm Rive Gauche:The Paralytic Olympics, conduct unbecoming of a barrister and the sun shines… « Charon QC

[...] I have to say, that I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the Olympics. The logo is terrible and the new mascots, to my eye – because I am not five – are ludicrous and deserve the pillorying they are getting. I had a go at my own Olympic mascot the other day. [...]
on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 2:08 pm Sallyoo

They are supposed to represent mobile telephones, I am told.