This is a real thing in the world.

Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, May 20, 2010
Meet the London 2012 Olympics mascot Wenlock (left, named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which hosted a precursor to the modern Olympics in the 1850s) and the London 2012 Paralympic mascot Mandeville (right, named after the Buckinghamshire town in which the precursor to the modern Paralympics was founded):



And their graphical avatars:


If you're looking at these images and asking yourself: Are the mascots to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games a pair of one-eyed monsters? the answer is yes. Yes they are.

Wenlock and Mandeville are pretty great names. I would have gone for John Thomas and Willy Knob, but that's just me.
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