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Olympic Mascots??

aeromed202

aeromed202

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Ok I watch the Olympics but I swear I never knew there were mascots. Call me old fashioned but I think the Rings are appealing enough.





What do you think?
 
It's a shame pedobear didn't make his summer Olympic debut considering how successful he was as a mascot at Vancouver. :mixedsmi:
 
in a bowl, mix the following:

the zest from 3 oranges (use a zester. if you go too deep you will add a bitterness to the sauce)
1 cup of fresh squeezed orange juice (don't worry about neatness, allow some pulp in there as well)
1/2 teaspoon of salt (you can get away with a little less if you prefer, as the soy adds some saltiness as well)
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
1/4 cup of soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground back pepper

arrange 5 or 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts in a lg casserole dish or small lasagna pan.
pour the mixture over the chicken. cook for 20 minutes, then flip them over and cook for 10 minutes more.
serve the chicken over a bed of medium grain rice. use the sauce from the pan to supplement what has baked into the chicken if you like. serve with a white wine that's not too sweet, but maybe a medium dry, to play off of the sweetness of the chicken. for a vegetable, you could serve edamame on the side in a small bowl.
 
ahh yes, Wenlock and Mandeville, Wendeville is the London Olympic Mascot and mandeville is the London Paralympics mascot...:wavey:
 
cheezyflier said:
in a bowl, mix the following:

the zest from 3 oranges (use a zester. if you go too deep you will add a bitterness to the sauce)
1 cup of fresh squeezed orange juice (don't worry about neatness, allow some pulp in there as well)
1/2 teaspoon of salt (you can get away with a little less if you prefer, as the soy adds some saltiness as well)
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
1/4 cup of soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground back pepper

arrange 5 or 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts in a lg casserole dish or small lasagna pan.
pour the mixture over the chicken. cook for 20 minutes, then flip them over and cook for 10 minutes more.
serve the chicken over a bed of medium grain rice. use the sauce from the pan to supplement what has baked into the chicken if you like. serve with a white wine that's not too sweet, but maybe a medium dry, to play off of the sweetness of the chicken. for a vegetable, you could serve edamame on the side in a small bowl.
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Hmm. . . Cheezy - this sounds pretty good but what in the world does it have to do with Olympic mascots ??

:running:
 
Chris H said:
It's a shame pedobear didn't make his summer Olympic debut considering how successful he was as a mascot at Vancouver. :mixedsmi:
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Dude, I'm tired of hearing about and seeing pedobear. There's nothing wrong with satirizing anything, but pedobear just isn't funny, and frankly the whole principle is more than just wrong.
 
Toastmaker said:
Hmm. . . Cheezy - this sounds pretty good but what in the world does it have to do with Olympic mascots ??

:running:
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absolutely nothing, but i thought i would post something in this thread that folks might like.
i make that here pretty regularly. it's tasty, and easy to make.
 
tigisfat said:
Dude, I'm tired of hearing about and seeing pedobear. There's nothing wrong with satirizing anything, but pedobear just isn't funny, and frankly the whole principle is more than just wrong.
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Anything that becomes a meme like that, no matter how daft or wrong it may be just tickles me pink by the very fact that it spawns so many bizarre and completely off the wall parodies.
 
You know what you get when you try to create a mascot that is gender neutral, racially amorphous, nationally neutral, and culturally alien to all human forms?

You get those two ugly as sin and totally uninteresting examples in that photo.

And London isn't alone. Atlanta had the same stupid, insipid looking mascot for their games when I live there and "Whatizit" was a real turn off for the citizens of Atlanta.

You know, we should be proud of our cultures and histories. What would be wrong with a bulldog mascot for the London games, and naming him "Winston?"

Ken
 
Ken Stallings said:
You know, we should be proud of our cultures and histories. What would be wrong with a bulldog mascot for the London games, and naming him "Winston?"

Ken
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It would be a horrible, completely unimaginative cliché, in my eyes anyway.

I actually agree with what you are saying for the most part regarding mascots, however every time I reflect on the rather bizarre designs that are the subject of the thread I'm left with the inescapable conclusion that I couldn't do any better; I really wouldn't know where to start.
 
London screams cultural icons....

....and this is what they come up with??


Now London just screams.
 
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about as good as the logo has been in recent years... and no i am not being biased... for once :icon_lol:
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east end of London in 2012... so whats going to happen when all them gangs hear the starters pistol? it'll be the fastest them athletes have ever moved :icon_lol: and I wonder what they've uncovered where stadium is going? Brinks Mat Bullion perhaps? :icon_lol: i'm with Dain, nothing says Coolness quite like Steve McQueen, Sean Connery or Clint Eastwood...
 
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