Psychic Octopus predicts Spain to win World Cup
Shawn Norris
The psychic octopus with an uncanny ability to predict outcomes of soccer games has predicted that Spain is going to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Bet accordingly…Paul is back and he has made his predictions folks. The octopus has predicted that Spain will defeat the Netherlands in this Sunday’s match against the Netherlands. He didn’t give the actual score to the game, although I imagine it would have been something less than eight.
“That was fast — it looks like a clear-cut victory for Spain,” said Tanja Munzig, spokeswoman for Sea Life in Oberhausen. She was surprised by his speed in picking Spain. For some matches it took Paul 70 minutes to decide.
Good call, Paul. Maybe it was the speed of the Spanish team that led him to pick them as World Cup champions so quickly. Or maybe he just has an inside tip that we don’t know about. What we do know is that Paul has gone a perfect six for six in his picks during this Cup (including a few upsets) and that has made him into quite the worldwide celebrity.
Two German television networks interrupted their programming for live coverage of the two-year-old celebrity octopus’s picks. Networks in Spain, the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe also broadcast Paul’s decision live.
I’m glad that an gambling sea creature take precedence over all this silly stuff the world is dealing with these days. With a global economic meltdown, several wars, immigration reform, spy swapping, and that little oil spill debacle that the Gulf is dealing with at the moment, we really should be focusing on the important stuff (right, LeBron?). Which begs the question, “If Paul lived in the Gulf of Mexico, would he even be alive to make these predictions”?
He may well be dead or dying right now if he wasn’t riding high with these soccer picks; swimming around in an ocean of crude oil or being chosen off a menu at a Japanese restaurant. He certainly seems to be living the charmed life at the moment. But you know what they say: It’s better to be lucky than good. Fortunately for Paul, at the moment he seems to be both.
Will he go a perfect seven for seven and win enough money to maybe save some of his brethren in the Gulf? Odds are probably against him on this one. Nobody can stay perfect forever — just ask BP.
Oracle Octopus Paul predicts Spain to win World Cup [Reuters]
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