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Paul the Octopus
Jul 12^th, 2010 at 3:43pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Octopus

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Paul (hatched January 2008) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who is used as an animal oracle to predict the results of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany is playing. He came to worldwide attention with his accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup....

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....His predictions have thus been 100% (8/8) correct for the 2010 World Cup and 86% (12/14) correct overall.

Maybe we should enlist Paul to predict the results of the Australian Federal Election Tongue

The Dutch soccer team were not impressed:

Opponents of Paul have been posting octopus recipes on internet blogs.

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Reply #1 - Jul 12^th, 2010 at 4:09pm

Rumour has it that Tony Abbot made a recent visit to Oberhausen to consult Paul the Octopus. He stared at the octopus intensely as if to read its mind.

One of his delegation asked - "What do you hope to achieve here?"

"Well it's a case of mind over matter" he replied "My mind over the matter of the octopus"

He asked his delegation for some peace so that he could concentrate.

When they returned 3 hours later, they noticed that Paul the Octopus was staring at Abbot with an intense look of concentration in his eyes, and with his tentacles stretched out in the direction of the Liberal Party Leader.

Then they noticed Abbot who was sitting in his chair, slowly waving his hands around going "glub glub glub....."

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Reply #2 - Jul 12^th, 2010 at 7:24pm

He's so cool.

I love Octopi, they're my favourite animals. Intelligent animals are really amazing and I love to observe them, but intelligent non-mammals are even cooler. The behavioral complexity of non-humans can be so inscrutable sometimes. Octopi aren't even vertebrates; they're so intelligent yet so detached from us. I wonder what they would be like if they had the cognitive capacity of human beings.

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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #3 - Jul 13^th, 2010 at 8:15am Cuttlefish beats octopus
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Reply #4 - Jul 14^th, 2010 at 7:12am

It just shows that the human was the dumb party in that scenario.

The cuttlefish knew that the shifter would act as a diversion for the octopus because it would be busy thinking of plans to construct an underwater city with the tool.
The human didn't have any idea that the shifter had created an opportunity for the cuttlefish to take full advantage of the situation and was dumbfounded by the events that followed.

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Reply #5 - Jul 14^th, 2010 at 10:51am

Amadd wrote on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 7:12am:

It just shows that the human was the dumb party in that scenario.

The cuttlefish knew that the shifter would act as a diversion for the octopus because it would be busy thinking of plans to construct an underwater city with the tool.
The human didn't have any idea that the shifter had created an opportunity for the cuttlefish to take full advantage of the situation and was dumbfounded by the events that followed.

Little does he know that the cuttlefish placed the shifter there in the first place. Cheesy

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Amadd Gold Member Offline Mo Posts: 6217	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #6 - Jul 14^th, 2010 at 4:05pm Quote: Little does he know that the cuttlefish placed the shifter there in the first place. Aha!! ..Foiled again by the 'ol shifty cuttlefish with the shifter trick.
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #7 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 10:03am http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/exhausted-octopus-dies-picking-oz-election-r... Quote: This is the sickening non-human toll of Saturday’s election - a psychic octopus which has literally worked itself to death trying to determine whether Labor or the Coalition will form government.
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tallowood Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6048	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #8 - Sep 11^th, 2010 at 2:43pm Viruses are smarter, they use us all.
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #9 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 10:04am tallowood wrote on Sep 11^th, 2010 at 2:43pm: Viruses are smarter, they use us all. I don't get viruses. I installed Linux into my brain and rebooted. I use a Gnu based operating system and I need to provide special authentication for viruses to run at root. Where the hell have you been?
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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #10 - Sep 12^th, 2010 at 10:35am muso wrote on Sep 12^th, 2010 at 10:04am: Where the hell have you been? Come on... Answer the man... You said you were just nipping out to get a loaf of bread and some milk... That was in November...
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Lisa Jones Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 39047 Sydney Gender:	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #11 - Sep 14^th, 2010 at 2:12pm Ha ha .. this topic's made my day! Thanks guys
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It_is_the_Darkness Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4000 in a ReTardis Gender:	Re: Paul the Octopus Reply #12 - Nov 2^nd, 2010 at 1:41pm For the Melbourne Cup. People are beheading Roosters to see which numbered box they run into.
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