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the psychic calamari

While I am thrilled to see Spain beat out Germany, without a doubt the biggest winner of this whole damn event (well, other than FIFA of course) has got to be Paul the Octopus, who has risen to fame with his spot on predictions for the German games. Tonight was Paul’s sixth correct prediction, despite being based at an aquarium in Germany. While some Germans hoped that Paul was trying to lure the Spanish into a false sense of security, Paul doesn’t mess about – he knows his shiz!

British by birth, this psychic calamari is also on Peta’s radar and the animal rights groups have all been lobbying to get Paul released. The fact that he hatched in an aquarium and has never had to forage for food in his life is something they seem to have missed, but anyway – now Paul is famous, he will hopefully get an uber pimped out tank. That is, unless he isn’t battered and deep fried for turning traitor against the Germans!

So how does he do it exactly? It’s pretty oracle like – when his trainers present him with food boxes marked with flags, Paul takes a moment before selecting one. So far, without fail this World Cup, he has managed to pick the winning team.

Please also check out his awesome Wikipedia page. Not many invertaebrates can boast celeb status like this, pretty darn cool if you ask me.

What I’m wondering is if he can only predict German wins/losses, or if he can tell us if Spain will take it to the max on Sunday and kick some orange butt?