Vancouver 2010 Mascots (amended repost)

[mbarrick]

Much to my amusement, my photoshopping of Pedobear in with the Vancouver 2010 mascots last July ended up on the first page for a Google image search for "Vancouver 2010 mascots" in fairly short order and remains there. I was just looking at my site stats for January and that blog post got viewed nearly 27,000 times!

L-R: Sumi, Quatchi, Miga, Pedobear

Google screenshot as of tonight.

Comments

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

This makes me so happy. :)

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

hahaha excellent.

I confess to owning just a small MukMuk keychain, tho I took the 2010 dangly off ( it's a stupid 2 part design.) He looks like a potato in a hat to me, and hence, is rather amusing for that alone.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, so check this out http://img.pokazywarka.pl/bigImages/115111/229984.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJSLBNACOS3UTO6HA&Signature=6cgimQNv1XhPV%2F%2FOlaStc1YJ%2Bdc%3D&Expires=1265457600

[(Anonymous)]

Polish newspaper took pedobear as official mascotte:
http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/

hahah

[(Anonymous)]

http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/

[(Anonymous)]

http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/
this is better, than first page of google image search :D

printed

[(Anonymous)]

You've been printed in local newspaper in my hometown - Olsztyn, Poland.

http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/

[(Anonymous)]

Congrats. Your work has been mindlessly nicked by some journalists and printed with an article about the Olympics :)
http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/

And you're printed now

[(Anonymous)]

Your picture just made it to our local Polish newspaper as an official vancoiver 2010 mascots illustration :) http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/

[(Anonymous)]

hahah, check this!
http://img.pokazywarka.pl/bigImages/115111/229984.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJSLBNACOS3UTO6HA&Signature=YjVVTn9KQmNuD4apFWpAPchfi0Y%3D&Expires=1265464800

:D

:D

[(Anonymous)]

buahaha, look at this - http://vader.joemonster.org/upload/zce/326077c9952356229984.jpg

this is from polish newspaper :)

Congratz

[(Anonymous)]

Have a look at this http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/ Polish newspaper :)

hihi

[(Anonymous)]

Only in Poland. It's not fake. :) http://pokazywarka.pl/4jxknu/

[(Anonymous)]

so .. is this photoshopped too?
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/650/1265377306001.jpg

YOU SIR, ARE AWESOME

[fluxid.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

http://fungi.soup.io/post/44498247/When-you-see-it Your shopped image made into printed newspaper in Poland... Of course as an image of "official mascots". This is so cool! (Found you via google images of course)

photoshopping of Pedobear

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, believe me or not, i found one of your work in Polish newspaper !!

here is link to that :

http://demotywatory.pl/897848/Pedobear

I hope you'll be able to see it. Desciption under the picture says : "Pedobear lurks everywhere"

that lady on the small picture is author i guess.

Re: YOU SIR, ARE AWESOME

[fluxid.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, i didn't see other comments before, strange.

Re: YOU SIR, ARE AWESOME

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

By default I have anonymous comments screened to discourage spam and general asshattery. I approved the others this morning.

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

DUDE. I'm not sure if this trumps yr real estate hotlink swap as far as wit goes, but for sheer, brute force hilarity this wins.

I owe you a g&t, good sir.

[prinzessin.livejournal.com]

ahahaha!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_darkpixie_/]

Someone needs to add this to http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Pedobear

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Somebody has already added the Polish newspaper article.

[ztargazer.livejournal.com]

Forgot about that one!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Good memory, Bruce. That was almost four years ago!

http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/725336.html

IS OF NEWS-PAPER OF POLANDS

[(Anonymous)]

KURWA! POLAND MAKE OF INTO NEWS PAPERS ON FRONT!

[tamgerine.livejournal.com]

The internet is over, YOU WON IT.

Message from Kuma- in Japan

[(Anonymous)]

Son'na esa ni oreha tsurarenai kuma-!!
(I am not tempted by such a bait!)

Every Japanese in 2-channel shocked and enjoyed this.

Re: Message from Kuma- in Japan

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Back to the source :-)

I can haz shirtz of dat?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey,

Are you planning on selling T-Shirts with this thing on?

If you mind about copyright, would you "leak" a printable vectorized version of this somewhere so we could get that on shirts?

Woulda be great!

Hold onto your hats (and daughters)

[(Anonymous)]

.. it's not done yet. Now a Dutch TV guide has co-opted the same image in a sad excuse for 'journalism'.


http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4153/1265915452943.jpg

Re: Hold onto your hats (and daughters)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Way ahead of you!

http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/899133.html

Us Dutchies

[thenewcheese.livejournal.com]

Just took the image and posted it in a magazine.

http://xs.to/image-ACAC_4B742121.jpg
Here, that text is Dutch.

[(Anonymous)]

My school librarian had plastered posters of the edited mascot photo all over the library as part of a Vancouver 2010 display. She obviously wasn't familiar with this particular meme.. We didn't notice it for at least two weeks but now I have an A3 size picture of Pedo-bear and friends in my room. :D thank you so much!

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.aniway.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16377&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 also in dutsh and german paper now, dude, you need to get a commission:P

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and now Lithuania!

I could not have planned a better joke. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

This is hilarious, your pic was printed as a header for one of the TV's station airing schedule two weeks in a row in Lithuania :)

Congrats!

[(Anonymous)]

And now Canada too, I just saw it in the Chemainus Valley Courier newspaper.

http://www.chemainusvalleycourier.ca/Past_issues/2010_03_March.pdf

page 26

Re: Congrats!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME! I grew up in Duncan.

Re: Congrats!

[(Anonymous)]

Hey! it isn't your idea! This idea is from Poland! Our newspaper showed that pic first! They took it from polish blogger who where first! You asshole!

Re: Congrats!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Not only are you two months behind the curve, you are an idiot. The idea was mine, the mistake was Polish (and subsequently also Dutch, German, Lithuanian and Canadian.) The Gazeta Olsztyńska got the picture from me. Read the other comments here and see this post (http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/897958.html) and the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympic_and_Paralympic_Games_mascots#Image_confusion) to see a what really happened.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too. Funnyjunk for the win. I love you Pedobear!

[dima-bat.livejournal.com]

lol (http://dima-bat.livejournal.com/21569.html)

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