Beijing Olympic ‘his’ and ‘hers’
p2pnet.net News:- Net users in China have turned the emblem for the 2008 Beijing Olympic into signs for male and female public restrooms.
But the authorities aren’t laughing, says Xinhua, the official news agency.
Dancing Beijing, “shows a human figure in mid-stride, arms stretched out, and looks like the Chinese character ‘jing’, which means capital and forms half of the word ‘Beijing’,” says the story.
And nor have the Beijing Olympic mascots, the five Fuwas, escaped.
“In one case, the heads of the mascots were replaced with famous Chinese comedians,” says the story, adding the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) was not amused, condemning such behavior as “tarnishing the Olympic spirit” and, “We will take legal measures should things get any worse,” an official with the BOCOG law department is quoted as saying.
Also See:
Xinhua – Beijing Olympic organizers vow to punish online spoof of Olympic symbols, January 18, 2007
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