Wenlock and Mandeville

Mascots are inherently ridiculous but Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, really do take the biscuit. Straight up bonkers!
Where to start? They are modelled on a short story about droplets of steel which drip off the new Olympics stadium and take life. Their cyclops-like faces are modelled on digital cameras and they each sport a natty London black cab orange light on their wierd bonces. To make them slightly more frightening for kids, they have hands like shark fins and feet like elephants.
Enough with the sniping - I love their names. Here's the providence (from the Guardian):
Wenlock, named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock that helped inspire Pierre de Coubertin to launch the modern Olympics, and Mandeville, inspired by the Buckinghamshire town of Stoke Mandeville, where the Paralympics were founded

Photo credit: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters