RIP Paul The Octopus

Heaven needed a magical moment to remember the 2010 World Cup because Spain was a bit "eh".

hey an ilf thread i understand

Put in a better performance than England imo yet Rooney still lives, there's no justice, etc.

rip big man

Very predictable.

Does anyone remember the 2010 World Cup? I kinda recall Slovakia's shirts and New Zealand's amazing run of draws.

karate kicks, suarez, tevez goal replay as the turning point, maradona running over a dude and listing the women he fucked - whats not to remember?

FRANCE. AND OCTUPUS GOD.

srs best world cup in forever.

It was nice to see his own fans booing him.

Well, alright, there was Joachim Löw's amazing dress sense.

Sitting on a picture of the 1953 Hungary squad in heaven right now.

joachim low eating his own bogey was pretty awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJIBo9bJk0

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/01/article-1280696044894-0A88F6D4000005DC-792352_636x432.jpg

:'(

He Foretold.

Rest In Paprika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQQFV2JemA

Sitting on a picture of the 1953 Hungary squad in heaven right now

all but brought a tear to my eye, this did

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GY3xDQtkUgc/TMcYOf8aL9I/AAAAAAAAA_c/98AM7udM8Jo/s1600/paul+2.jpg

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:24 (7 hours ago)

Octopus in the Wind

Goodbye Pulpo Paul
Though I never knew you at all
You had the jets to propel yourself
While those around you crawled

They crawled into the Sea Life Centre
And gave you mussels to choose
They let you pick the winners
And ignore the ones who'd lose

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a cephalopod in the wind
Always knowing which to cling to
'Ere the games'd begin
And I would have liked to have known you
But the lifespan of the common octopus is only 3 years
Your ink cloud disappeared before
Your legend ever did.

Prescience was tough
The toughest role you had to play
Haters with recipes
Could ruin your whole day
And even when you died
Some people mocked your psychic stare
"Guess he didn't see it coming,"
Was all that Twitter had to share.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a cephalopod in the wind
Always knowing which to cling to
'Ere the games'd begin
And I would have liked to have known you
But the lifespan of the common octopus is only 3 years and tickets to Germany are out of my price range at the present time
Your ink cloud disappeared before
Your legend ever did.

Goodbye Pulpo Paul
Though I never knew you at all
Goodbye Pulpo Paul
More fun to watch than Knocked Up was
You left a legacy far greater
Than the average octopus.
Goodbye Pulpo Paul.

RIP BIG HOMIE

http://www.odt.co.nz/files/story/2009/04/jade_goody_s_funeral_procession_passes_through_lou_2128824038.jpg

"It's a sad day. Paul was rather special but we managed to film Paul before he left this mortal earth," said his agent, Chris Davies.

Cheeky reference to The Fall on the front page of today's Guardian in relation to this story. I was o_O

Wait the octopus has an agent? How much money are Paul's estate going to be making?

squids in

Cheeky reference to The Fall on the front page of today's Guardian in relation to this story. I was o_O

Not Squid Law/Lord, then?

According to Jiang Xiao, the director of a forthcoming thriller entitled Who Killed Paul the Octopus?, the creature had really been dead for the last three months. Jiang told the Guardian she was "60 to 70% sure" Paul had died in July and been secretly replaced by his keepers.

Explaining how such a deception could have been perpetrated, she added: "(Octopuses) all look the same. It is impossible to tell the difference."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/oct/26/paul-octopus-dead-psychic-world

lol Maradona is blaming Paul for Argentine's failure via Twitter. (his own psychic dreams turned out not to be so accurate)

http://twitter.com/diego_maradona

(don't know if that twitter account is legit though)

Given it's all in English I'm tempted to think it might just be fake.

yeah, it's news on Belgian tv text (that's not saying much ;) )

Paul The Octopus finds psychic successor as Pavlik tips for Euro 2012
• Ukraine aquarium reveals octopus tipster for 2012
• Pavlik successfully calls Barcelona-Shaktar result
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/07/paul-octopus-euro-2012-pavlik

too soon, emotional scars are still raw

http://www.paperstone.co.uk/images/NewsImages/2011/paul_the_octopus_statue.jpg

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