By now you’ve heard of the terrifying powers of Paul the Octopus, who has correctly predicted five straight World Cup outcomes involving Germany. The Spanish were overjoyed late Sunday when a story leaked on the Internets — complete with photo — that Paul had predicted Spain would beat Germany in their semifinal match in Durban on Wednesday. But then online conspiracy theorists took a closer look at the photo, and … Man kann es nicht glauben! The new Paul photo appears to be a fake! (Check out the comments section to this story).
Compare the Getty file photo, top, which was taken when Paul chose Serbia over Germany earlier in the tournament, to the one below it. There is nothing lower than a World Cup octopus Photoshop faker.
As you can see, that isn’t even a proper Spanish flag.
Paul won’t actually make his prediction, says the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhauser, Germany, until Tuesday. And it will be accompanied by a video.
Meanwhile, no one gives a fig about my pet squid’s opinion that LeBron will stay in Cleveland.
Meanwhile, here are the human-generated odds to win it all, via Bodog.com:
Spain 2/1, Germany 11/5, Netherlands 11/5, Uruguay 10/1.
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- elizabeth Jones - Jul 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM
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octopus paul was right in all its predictions, almost all, in one its fail i think, its awesome, I prefer eat as a meal..
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- troll liner - Jul 12, 2010 at 6:44 PM
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TROLL LINE… EVERYONE ABOVE THIS LINE HAS BEEN TROLLED… BY A PSYCHIC OCTOPUS… ALL HAIL THE NEW OVERLORD… ALL HAIL PAUL!!!
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- Futuramo - Jul 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM
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ALL HAIL HYPNOPAUL
