Paul was a fraud

Posted at 12:49 PM on October 28, 2010 by Bob Collins (4 Comments)
Filed under: Surveys and trivia

The Guardian blows the lid off the soccer-predicting octopus story.

Paul the Octopus, who provided colourful if inane fodder for umpteen news and broadcast organisations during the World Cup, especially those with no rights to any live action in South Africa, was also credited with predicting correct match results for Euro 2008 games. It should be stressed that, contrary to some reports, that was actually a different octopus, and that the different octopus got other results wrong, but such facts shouldn't get in the way of a good story.

In other global news today, 350 people were killed in a tsunami in Indonesia.

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Comments (4)

Unbelievable. How will we know what octopus to believe in the future?

Posted by John P. | October 28, 2010 1:02 PM

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I guess The Guardian had to really extend its tentacles to get that story.

Posted by John O. | October 28, 2010 1:19 PM

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Sheesh. EVERYBODY knows that woodchucks are the only legitimate prognosticators of the animal world.

Posted by auntie smedley | October 28, 2010 11:37 PM

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Auntie's back! Where have you been, dearie?

Posted by Bob Collins | October 29, 2010 8:11 AM

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