Trav Le Bleu Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Psychic Octopus Snuffs It Death's inescapable tentacles have curled themselves around Paul the octopus, the cephalopod sage who won worldwide fame over the summer by correctly predicting the results of a host of World Cup matches.Paul the 'psychic' octopus predicted the winners of all Germany's World Cup clashes, and then the victors in the final, by selecting one of two boxes, each loaded with a mussel food treat and marked on the outside with one of the teams. Stefan Porwoll, the manager of the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany that the tentacled psychic called home, said Paul appeared to have died peacefully of natural causes during the night. "We are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life here and that the care provided for him by our dedicated displays team could not have been bettered," Porwoll said. Staff at the centre said his death was not entirely unexpected, since common octopuses generally live only a couple of years. "His success made him almost a bigger story than the World Cup itself," Porwoll said. "We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine." He added: "While this may seem a curious thing to do for a sea creature, Paul achieved such popularity during his short life that it may be deemed the most appropriate course of action." Paul will achieve lucrative immortality in commercial enterprises ranging from special clothing lines to a mobile phone application, and will feature in a documentary to be released early next year. His final prediction was that England would win the right to host the World Cup in 2018. Apparently his last words were, "Leicester City to win the English Premiership in 2012", shortly before saying, "Actually, I don't feel too bad now."
Bellend Sebastian Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 He probably predicted that but everyone was too busy getting him to tell them football scores to notice
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 He probably predicted that but everyone was too busy getting him to tell them football scores to notice too early for that , i bet the ink on his death cert is not even dry yet
Bellend Sebastian Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 too early for that , i bet the ink on his death cert is not even dry yet There must be something we could have done
Jaspa Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Fook i just put this in the sport forum. Ah well i guess itl get deleted now. I knew we shouldnt have took down the world cup forum RIP
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 There must be something we could have done CPR ?
cambridgefox Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Bet the sea life centre are pissed off,they must have made a SQUID or two,with visitors over the last few months
Bellend Sebastian Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Fook i just put this in the sport forum. Ah well i guess itl get deleted now. I knew we shouldnt have took down the world cup forum RIP It's OK, you're bound to be very emotional, I think we all are CPR ? My first aid course didn't cover mollusc resuscitation. I didn't think it was very thorough at the time
Bellend Sebastian Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 This bloke's going to be gutted: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1380865.ece
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 It's OK, you're bound to be very emotional, I think we all are My first aid course didn't cover mollusc resuscitation. I didn't think it was very thorough at the time CPR was meant to sound like "sepia" , but i guess it didn't really work
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 This is a sad day for the world. not if you are partial to calamari rings
Samilktray Posted 26 October 2010 Author Posted 26 October 2010 I think he deserves to be stuffed, and put on display in madame tussauds
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 i think he deserves to be fried in in olive oil with 1 tsp paprika and 1 tsp cayenne pepper
Trav Le Bleu Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Do you have no heart? Paul had three. More than enough to go around!
Bellend Sebastian Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Who's going to look after his garden now? That's what I want to know
Trav Le Bleu Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 Who's going to look after his garden now? That's what I want to know A fitting tribute I feel.
Zingari Posted 26 October 2010 Posted 26 October 2010 he did that video years ago Paul was a young and struggling actor when he made that we all have our skeletons ( actually i'm not sure if he had a skeleton , but you know what i mean )
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