The Most Famous Octopus in the World? A Dead Cert.
July 9th, 2010
British-born octopus Paul, who now lives in Oberhausen’s Sea Life Aquarium in Germany, has managed to predict the winners of every Germany match played in the World Cup. The predictions have made him one of the top ‘octopus’ related search terms.
Paul’s lucky talent was first realised during the 2008 Euro Championships when four out of his six predictions were correct. He has been predicting match results ever since, and his knack for predicting match outcomes made him into a star in Germany.
However, as we have seen many times before, fame always comes at a price. After Paul correctly predicted that Germany would beat Argentina in the quarter final, Argentinean fans threatened to kill and eat him, and since Spain’s victory over Germany on Wednesday, another outcome predicted by Paul, even the German’s have suggested Paul be turned into a tasty meal.
A Hitwise Intelligence report has found that the term ‘octopus world cup’ was one of the top ten ‘octopus’ related search terms for the 4 weeks leading up to July 3, 2010, and this is no doubt set to rise hugely since Wednesday’s match.
