IT’S ALIVE! Whatever it is. We refer to the new athletic man-muppet mascot Virginia’s George Mason University has unnaturally brought to subhuman life. OMG! Igor! Where is that jar with the criminal brain?
GMU’s old sports mascot was a furry … thing called Gunston, after Gunston Hall. Get it? No one else did, either. Gunston is rumpled-looking and ineffectual; naturally he was kicked upstairs to a cushy job in university administration.
GMU wants to find a better name for the new … creature, so there’s a contest. Too bad Mason didn’t have a contest to design the mascot, but the university had to use that pricey Bioengineering Lab for something.
Enter the mascot-naming contest online or by texting. Deadline: December 17, 2008.
Sorry, folks; NotionsCapital has already entered the most appropriate name:
Try your luck anyway.
Hat tip: DCist
Images by Mike Licht. Download a copy of the top one here and bottom one here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
NotionsCapital 
November 19, 2008 at 7:18 am
I am slightly disturbed by the expression of the face AND the facepaint.