Link These Names, Question 43

[Daisy]

Daisy, wait until you see the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic mascot. It's a pile of rocks! Montreal 1976 mascot was a beaver named Amik. Who says Canadians lack imagination!

cman

So far...[], Amik, Misha, Sam, [], Cobi, Izzy, []

How about Skippy the kangaroo for Sydney. Total guess, but who knows?
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/skippy.htm
Anyone else see that show as a kid?

Surely the dachshund would be called Pretzel?
http://www.amazon.com/Pretzel-H-Rey/dp/ ... F8&s=books
Another blast from my past, I probably still have that book somewhere.

[tafnut]

Couldn't be worse than that tree they have in Palo Alto.

GRRRRRRRRRRR - them's fighting words!! It ain't just A tree; it's El Palo Alto!!! It's sacred.

[Daisy]

Couldn't be worse than that tree they have in Palo Alto.

GRRRRRRRRRRR - them's fighting words!! It ain't just A tree; it's El Palo Alto!!! It's sacred.

A sacred tree? Then why does it look so goofy? It certainly beats out all the crappy olympic mascots for the most inane thing on a sports field; hands down. Whatcha gonna do? Come up here and kick my butt?

[tafnut]

Whatcha gonna do? Come up here and kick my butt?

Better . . . ever had a tree FALL on you? A big INANE one . . .

[mike renfro]

Whatcha gonna do? Come up here and kick my butt?

Better . . . ever had a tree FALL on you? A big INANE one . . .

By most accounts, a big, inane, DRUNK one :twisted:

Ooh, I finally got up to 10% of Pat's posts.

[cullman]

Whatcha gonna do? Come up here and kick my butt?

Better . . . ever had a tree FALL on you? A big INANE one . . .

OR...ever have a pile of rocks fall on you?

2010 Winter Olympic logo...really™

cman

[Daisy]

OR...ever have a pile of rocks fall on you?

Did you just create that logo or is it for real? Will it just sit there and move at a geological pace?

Move over tree thing, we may have a contender for the most inane.

And to stay on topic so far we have:
So far...[], Amik, Misha, Sam, [], Cobi, Izzy, []

missing sausage dogs name (1972), the ? (1988) and the critters/kangeroo? (2000)

[cullman]

It's for real. C'mon a committee spent many lunches and many dollars to come up with this one...(where's the damn rolleyes emoticon when you need it?)

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/[email protected]

cman

[gh]

OR...ever have a pile of rocks fall on you?

Did you just create that logo or is it for real? Will it just sit there and move at a geological pace?

Move over tree thing, we may have a contender for the most inane.

And to stay on topic so far we have:
So far...[], Amik, Misha, Sam, [], Cobi, Izzy, []

missing sausage dogs name (1972), the ? (1988) and the critters/kangeroo? (2000)

'88 was a tiger.

[tafnut]

I just realized I forgot what the 2008 logo looks like and found two!





and the trollish mascots

[bambam]

1968 Ciudad de Mexico Official Mascot: Red Jaguar (no name was given)
1972 München Official Mascot: Waldi (dachshund)
1976 Montréal Official Mascot: Amik (beaver) [Amik is Algonquin for beaver]
1980 Moskva Official Mascot: “Misha” (full name was Mikhail Potapych Troptygin) (bear)
1984 Los Angeles Official Mascot: Sam (eagle)
1988 Seoul Official Mascot: Hodori and Hosuni (male and female tigers)
1992 Barcelona Official Mascot: Cobi (dog)
1996 Atlanta Official Mascot: Izzy (The original name was Whatizit, a computer-designed mascot that can only be described by this name, and which generated many negative comments, prompting the name change.)
2000 Sydney Official Mascots: Cartoon depictions of three indigenous Australian animals - Syd, a platypus; Millie, an echidna; and Olly, a kookaburra.
2004 Athinai Official Mascots: Two small cartoon depictions of Olympian Gods. Phevos, name of the Olympian God of light and music, known as Apollo. Athena, Goddess of wisdom and patron of the city of Athens. Phevos and Athena represented the link between Greek history and the modern Olympic Games

1968 Grenoble Official Mascot: Schuss (a small man on skis)
1972 Sapporo Official Mascot: None
1976 Innsbruck Official Mascot: Snowman
1980 Lake Placid Official Mascot: Roni Raccoon
1984 Sarajevo Official Mascot: Vučko (wolf)
1988 Calgary Official Mascot: Howdy and Hidy (male and female polar bears)
1992 Albertville Official Mascot: Magique (half-man, half-star symbol)
1994 Lillehammer Official Mascots: Håkon and Kristin (historical children characters; based on Kristin [né 1181], the daughter of King Sverre; and Håkon, king of Norway from 1217 to 1263, who, as an infant, was rescued from enemies by two medieval birkebeiner warriors)
1998 Nagano Official Mascot: Snowlets (there were four different ones - Sukki, Nokki, Lekki, and Tsukki – these replaced Snowple, a white ermine, characteristic of the Japanese Alps). They resembled snowflake-like young owls (owlets).
2002 Salt Lake City Official Mascots: Three cartoon depictions of animals that have appeared as major characters in the myths and legends of Native Americans. The three mascots also represented the Olympic Motto of citius, altius, fortius – swifter, higher, stronger. The mascots were: a Snowshoe Hare named Powder (representing Swifter); a Coyote named Copper (representing Higher); and an American Black Bear named Coal (representing Stronger). Each mascot character wears a charm around its neck fashioned after the original Anasazi or Fremont-style petroglyph to remind the mascots of their heritage.
2006 Torino Official Mascots: Neve and Gliz, stylized cartoon characters with Neve (the female) having a snowball for a head, and an orange body; and Gliz (the male) an ice cube for a head, and a blue body.

[tafnut]

bambam, that is AWESOME that you can do that from memory! (because, after all, looking up the answer, even in YOUR OWN BOOK, would be deemed cheating!!)
:-)

[bambam]

bambam, that is AWESOME that you can do that from memory! (because, after all, looking up the answer, even in YOUR OWN BOOK, would be deemed cheating!!)
:-)

Well, then, I cheated. But only after the link had been decided and people could not remember all the mascot names. You guys were doing pretty good, though.

[gh]

Yeah, rules are, no research until all the blanks are properly filled in. Or gh calls it off.