Getting Back on Track & Olympic Déjà Vu
Hi All
Yep I am well and trully back in town now from my retreat...a bumpy start to the week back at work but settling in fine now.
It seems that the Olympics can bring out the best and the worst in people and places...in 2010 Vancouver will be hosting the winter games and I can't help feeling a certain sense of déjà vu from being in Sydney in the lead up to the summer games for 2000...gross over runs in projected costs, outrageously priced tickets, construction woes, IOC pressure on small family businesses that happened to have the word 'Olympic' in their names etc etc. and now the latest...the unveiling of the 'Olympic Mascots' to very mixed reviews from the local daily paper:
' "Why not just use a 7-foot Wookie and a couple Ewoks while we're at it?" wrote one reader, alluding to characters from the Star Wars movies. Many readers suggested Miga was similar to Pokemon's Hello Kitty'.
Have a look and make up your own mind on these:
Meanwhile the local left-of-centre free newspaper has been having some fun of their own with the mascots including cartoonist Rod Filbrandt's "Rejected 2010 Mascot" series with some local jokes thrown in but I think you will get the general idea:
Love to all
G
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