September 20, 2012 
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If you thought the one-eyed mascot for the London Olympics was a poor effort it has been my misfortune to open the BBC Scottish News section to be confronted with this aberration! Put your hands together for Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games 2014 mascot, the one, the only…
Our humiliation as a nation is complete! 
PS His name is Clyde (nope…doesn’t make it any better)
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You’re approaching it from the wrong angle Ken. I think that it may well improve many people’s perception of Scotland.
My, my…you’re quick off the mark MrP…I’d barely pressed the “publish” button when your comment appeared.
I could partially agree in that it sums up my perceptions of Glasgow society. There…that should stir up the “weegies” who read the blog
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Or those that read the blog and are married to weegies!!
“Hee…Hee!”. Result!
In the name of the wee man…
Indeed! Given the abuse normally dished out to the mascot design for any event, the cunning wee devils at Glasgow’ Commonwealth games Committee decided to shift the blame and made the design a competition for schoolchildren…though I suspect that was merely a ruse!
Well, given the amount usually paid out in consultancy fees that should assure Scottish education for the next decade…
…and they stated categorically that exams have not been dumbed down!
Clyde and his cohort should be damned-near invincible at the Games, seeing as they’ve been fitted with Arc Reactors
Stef…c’mon! What does that image tell you about Scottish invincibility.
You’ll not succeed as independent
turbine-platformstate with that cynical attitude, Ken. Have the Limpix taught you nothing about “inspiring a generation”?Ooops! Standards are slipping here. Feel free to insert this stray “an” into my previous comment in the correct place.
Sadly that mascot does nothing but inspire me to head for the nearest bottle of red wine…hmm…damn fine mascot!
Im sure Clyde will do us proud, Ken. He looks a whole lot brighter than Boris Johnson for a start.
I’ll have nothing bad said about my hero, BJ, on this blog! Never has a politician given so much pleasure to so many people. I can’t help but smile as soon as I see his large cherubic face appear on the telly. His mere presence brightens my day as he is living proof that Darwin has to be wrong.
Like the Giant Panda there is no logical reason why Boris should not have been (naturally) selected against thousands of years ago. “…a bear of very little brain” (to quote A.A.Milne – Winnie the Pooh) it is true, but he makes me smile…a priceless quality!
I like it and the wee girl that dreamed it up is dead chuffed.Its a lot better than Preswick airport,s slogan which is pure dead embarrassing.
I keep thinking I’ve seen it before…just a different colour!
I’m frightened to ask what the slogan is for Prestwick. If you drop back in please enlighten us. 
When interviewed by Reporting Scotland, the wee lassie who invented ‘Clyde’ said she was ‘surprised’ at the win. Not half as surprised as some of us, clearly.
I used to chuckle when I saw the Welsh waving giant leeks. Sorry to say Clyde bears an uncanny resemblance to a leek that’s gone to seed.
A fair observation
These games committees must dread the whole mascot thing. I imagine they sit around a table drawing lots for the different jobs…the one with the short straw having responsibility for the mascot design. I bet a few have “topped” themselves rather than face the inevitable humiliation.
Maybe a compromise is the best way forward… a character who truly represents Scotland, but with some of the elements of the competition-winning design:
http://beardedgit.smugmug.com/General/miscellaneous/i-WxdPqb6/0/O/kb.jpg
Nice one Stef
Don’t know if I fancy my hair that colour though.
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee….
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Really, I’m OK.
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No. It’s no good.
Hee, hee, hee, ha ha, ha….
I really have to say that I feel you’re not viewing this oncoming disaster with the appropriate level of seriousness Mark!
