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| Designer: Hoping the Olympics run like clockwork. |
Wenlock and Mandeville, the despised graphic mascots of the 2012 London Olympics, went on a crime spree this weekend, robbing a Barclay's Bank at gunpoint and committing depravities against the bank's eagle logo. "Of course, to a degree one could say criminality is built into their DNA," said Owen St. Stephens Stephens, Morelock and Wenlock's designer. "I mean, given the lad who inspired them. We wanted something high spirited. But naturally, it's a shame about the eagle."
The Barclay's logo is expected to recover with counseling, but Britons aren't sure their still-contracting economy will be able to take the hit--$15 billion "and counting"--that the Olympics are expected to inflict. And Prime Minister David Cameron just asked to double the budget for the opening ceremony (to be directed by Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle) to the equivalent of $125 million.
No wonder, then, that according to the NY Times, complaining about the Olympics has become "its own Olympic sport." Also, consider: "The 1992 Barcelona Games left Spain with a $6.1 billion debt. Athens estimated that the 2004 Games would cost $1.6 billon, but in the end it was $16 billion...Meanwhile, it took Montreal nearly 30 years — until 2005 — to pay off the $2.7 billion it owed after the 1976 Summer Games."
Maybe bank robbing is not such a bad idea for Mandeville and Wenlock, who have been said to resemble "insane aliens." Here's the link. http://tinyurl.com/6thhdrt
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