h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

the greatest has to be Paul the octopus
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10566287.stm
Today he's going to pick a flag to predict the winner of the World Cup... I'm on (8) tenterhooks! I've seen him on BBC News this morning and they're joking that if you bet on his result you might win a few squid

But apparently some people want to eat him???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8795000/8795363.stm

I hope that's not allowed, or it will be a tragedy worse than a disallowed goal for England.

I wonder why he isn't been asked the outcome of the "little final" first

nobody cares about that, unless their team is playing in it
and not always then

sure, but since he is german and the germans are in it and he has predicted all other german matches so far

seems he did pick for the third place play-offs

we shall see - he's often right and it would be nice for Europe to have a clean sweep!

Humans are famous for fifteen minutes - most octopi expect about two years. Hope he wins so they find him a girlfriend...

...they were madly in love but then she broke it off.

I've been out all day but Andrew says Paul the octopus has plumped for Spain...ole!

With new Tentacle-FU® 2000, you can resist those unwanted advances from guys who seem to have eight arms...

Sorry GB, you stepped right into the middle of that...

And Germany to win the play-off, so it might et saved from an extremely tasty fate.

Paul the octopus is the only reason I will be interested in the result I see there is a cockatoo forecasting too

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So who won, the octopus or the cockatoo?

I believe the octopus got all his correct (but I also heard that the box he picked was always on the right, so maybe the real star is the person who decided what box was to go on the right...)

Paul the octopus http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8809710.stm but I haven't been following the cockatoo, as I only found out about it last night and I was nowhere near a computer

Mani the parakeet is mentioned in that article.

I'd not read it, I just found you the link to answer your query. I am meeting myself coming back this morning

we had a goldfish predicting here

didn't do the final any good, though

but the little final was great