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Future telling Octopus, what next? Paul, the ‘Octopus Oracle’ has predicted the outcome of the World Cup final. Unbelievable, or the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard?
The media attention which Paul has received is raising eyebrows with the superstitious. Many people – including Roar columnist Adrian Musolino – have deliberately chosen to support the opposite team to whatever Paul has chosen in the hope that it’s all a load of codswallop.
Unfortunately, Paul is yet to be defeated.
Paul rose to fame after predicting the outcome of all of Germany’s six World Cup matches, including their loss to Serbia, and stunning victory over the Socceroos.
Trust the industrious nation of Germany to come up with such a bizarre method of predicting the outcome of matches, especially since Nostradamus gave no inclination during his time as to who would lift the trophy in 2010.
How much faith are people genuinely placing in Paul, and how far are people willing to go in order to come up with other weird and unusual methods of predicting the outcome of sporting events?
There have been suggestions for a Psychic Skippy to be employed to foresee the outcome of domestic codes, I’m sure other nations are coming up with their own mascot to take up future telling duties.
But do we really believe this is possible, or has Paul just got lucky…very lucky?
At first it was considered a good laugh, a conversation starter and something to mull over at the water cooler:
“How bout that Octopus huh, Jeez, he’s a genius.”
Now, regular TV programming is being interrupted in order to get Paul’s opinion on the biggest sporting event in the world.
I for one think this is going to become an even bigger farce than it already is. People are gullible and could take this all too literally. Could you imagine someone literally putting their house on a prediction from Paul, only for him to have an off day, or for it to be the stupidest thing anyone has ever taken notice in?
If I were his owner, now would be the time to capitalize on Paul’s fame, and try to earn a fortune from the creature. He should be capable of being “floated” on the German Stock Exchange, and the initial subscriber share sale should set the owner up for life.
Problem with that is that there are risks inherent in Paul getting it wrong…especially if the business was conducted with football gamblers from certain South American countries. Paul might the need 24-hour protection, or he might end up on a platter.
On the other hand, the owner might have grown very attached to this phenomenon of the deep, and might wish to keep “it” as a member of the family, or, perhaps on display for people to gawk at (for a fee of course).
Perhaps we should enquire as to whether or not Paul sub contracts. We could give him a host of tasks such as whether or not Australia will ever win a World Cup?
Problem is, once Paul starts to lose his knack of getting it right, his value will plummet, even to his owner, and ultimately, he will end up being “cooked”.
Ah! fame, such a fickle beast.
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