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So I saw a Twitter post the other day where someone mentioned Bigfoot was the new Olympics mascot – I thought it was a joke. Browsing through my RSS I stumbled on an entry over at Cryptomundo where I learned that indeed, the Yeti – or precisely Sasquatch – is (one of) the mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Pretty cool.

So I head on over to Google to do a search for some images, and what do I find? A Sasquatch character with boots on. What? That would be like putting wheels on a UFO, or a snorkeling mask on the Loch Ness Monster. They’ll probably make a crop circle of the Olympics logo — using a lawnmower.

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