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Olympic knitwits

We have traipsed round this track before but the idiocy of the London Olympics merchandise police knows no bounds.

In order to maximise income from these gross games, anyone who is not a sponsor is being threatened with heavy fines and even jail if they use names and brands such as London 2012, Olympics, Olympiad, the five rings, or the torch.

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