London’s Decline and Fall

May 20, 2010 in Athletes, Ayyyy!, Celebrity, Cute critters, Euro, Scandals, Sports stars with 2 Comments

Then:

Five Spice Mix

Now:

Wenlock and Mandeville, Olympic and Paralympic mascots

It’s terrible what a recession will do. Look at what’s happened to London’s ambassadors to the world! Reduced by 60% and then some. Once they were five lithe avatars of Girl Power: now they’re two stubby, faceless, badly-dressed John Travolta impersonators.

Not a patch on Canada’s Olympic mascots!

Olympic mascots of Vancouver

Wait, who’s THAT guy?

Which reminds me to post this: Nine Inch Nails meets Saturday Night Live. Enjoy?

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2 Responses to “London’s Decline and Fall”

  1. Frontier Former Editor May 20, 2010 at 7:55 am #

    There’s something moderately disturbing about your comic mascot being ol’ one eye, or two ol’ one eyes for that matter . . .

  2. raincoaster May 20, 2010 at 10:49 am #

    Somebody on Twitter said they’d make GREAT Dr Who villains.