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Old 04-08-2008, 09:08 PM
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How much longer are we going to be bombarded with the blasted evil looking monkey and his mates on TV whenever the Olympic Games in Beijing are mentioned? I have found that the sequence is based on a Chinese story " Journey to the West". This link shows the information on the BBC which has short videos of the cartoon.

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I have to admit that I have never seen such an evil and ugly looking monkey in my life. It is enough to frighten most kids more than the Darleks in Dr Who.
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It's supposed to be a cartoon representation of the 70's TV show Monkey. The second time I saw it I was fed up of it and as for the chingy-changy music that goes with it..... Three weeks more I believe.
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Old 05-08-2008, 12:13 AM
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We're stuck with the blinkin minkey until the end of the blinkin games, as Jezer says to wise old Esca.

As they say in China- Blugger it.
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Old 05-08-2008, 09:59 AM
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Wait until 2012 and we are made to watch that grafitti of the date when we host the Olympics. I am already seeing it on packaging, the corner of TV programmes and in the press. Does it count as subliminal propaganda?
We have FOUR more years of it!!
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Old 05-08-2008, 10:12 AM
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I suspect following the Lisa Simpson animation of the 2012 logo it may get changed before then
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Old 05-08-2008, 10:15 AM
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I missed that one...what did she do?
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It's naughty this but if you look carefully at the 2012 logo it looks like an outline of Lisa Simpson crouching down performing oral sex on a man's lower torso. Some wag did an animation of the act and posted it on Youtube.

Hence the unofficial title 'Blowing for Gold'

How Lisa Simpson got ahead at the Olympics | Art & architecture | Guardian Unlimited
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Old 05-08-2008, 02:18 PM
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First time I saw the monkey, I thought it was a video for Damon Albarn's "Virtual Band" Gorillaz!
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Funny you should say that Amy!
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