Pedobear is 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot

I rofl'ed pretty freakin hard.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ic-mascot.html

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/m...r_1573909c.jpg

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Polish newspaper claims '********' is 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot
A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified "********", a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing the bear alongside genuine Olympic mascots Quatchi, Sumi, Miga and Mukmuk to illustrate a feature about the Games.

It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer.

********, who is on the far right of the picture, was originally devised by members of the anarchic 4chan message board as a way of mocking users who expressed a sexual interest in young people.

Since then a tasteless internet trend – or meme – has emerged in which users insert the bear into other photos in a contest to create the most inappropriate composite image.

On his blog yesterday Mr Barrick wrote that online amusement about the newspaper's error had sparked a surge of interest in his artwork, and hinted that the financial burden of the Games on Canadian taxpayers was the motivation for his mischievous creation.

He wrote: "There seems to be a Tweet about this coming up every minute or two. The day before this started I was amused by the 27,000 hits I got in January. Yesterday alone I got 120,000 (with about one third coming from Poland) and today is looking like it will top that by at least double."

He added: "Maybe I'll just keep the money to help cover the price gouging, raised taxes, disappearing arts funding, and all the other "benefits" we Vancouverites are getting from the games that are kicking me in the back pocket."

The four genuine mascots of the Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics were inspired by traditional native creatures.

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Bonus: http://www.just-whatever.com/2007/08...to-video-date/

Next thing you know Longcat is the Summer Olympics 2012 mascot.

way to deter parents from bringing their kids into the spirit of Olympics...:hmm:

He blends in well.

Too well...

LOL that's classic

EGAM, is all I have to say to that.

Well gymnastics is a pretty pedo-attracting sport.

this is full of so much win...

They haven't even started and I can already claim them EPIC for that alone.

Laughed so hard at work that people stared.

That was a much needed laugh. Gotta love 'dem Canadians.

In case anyone doesn't know. Someone shopped the image and put ******** into it. It got a lot of hits and made it to the top of the google image search. This newspaper just pulled it off without even thinking about it and posted it in their article.

******** is not the mascot, but this is still funny.

This is full of so much win that I am at a total loss of words!