We’re in the Summer News Doldrums Now… July 9, 2010
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in Blizzard, entertainment, Humor, World of Warcraft.Tags: FIFA, My tax dollars diverted to yet more trivial ends, NASA, Real ID, World Cup
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When this is the main Yahoo headline, get ready for just about anything to show up in the news.
Octopus picks winner for World Cup!
I’ll spoil it for you, the mollusk picked Spain while the bird went for the Netherlands. If you want the arcana on how they choose, you’ll have to read the articles. Both of these animals have picked winners correctly in the past, but now one of them will have their reputation destroyed, while the other will appear with Jay Leno in an attempt to help him get the Tonight Show ratings back up.
Sure, yesterday Yahoo sank down to the whole Real ID thing with their usual eye for accuracy. For example, spot at least two errors in this boilerplate at the end of the article.
World of Warcraft, which was launched in 2004, is the most popular multiplayer online role-playing game with more than 11 million monthly subscribers.
But today?
Today animals predict the outcome of a soccer game!
Meanwhile, NASA is looking into the balls being used for World Cup play.
Hey, NASA, if you want to look into something about soccer, how about figuring out a way to break a tie without that whole crappy penalty shoot-off. Or just suggest some technologies that FIFA could look into to help them make a few less egregiously bad official calls.
Or, hey, here’s a novel idea… do something related to outer space. The “S” in NASA stands for “Space,” not “soccer.”
Still, if you feel you have to ride along on the World Cup’s coat tails, at least tells us about what kind of reception they get in the International Space Station or throw out some theories to explain the apparent fascination cephalopods and psittacines have for the game.
(There are your vocabulary words for the day.)
What will tomorrow bring?
You think that’s bad? The octopus was born in britain and therefore is on ALL the news here too (it’s like the nearest we have to a world cup winner :) )
The soccer ball project is a new one on me, but we’ve already had an indication that NASA’s priorities are a little… different lately (warning: arguably political content):
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/07/nasa-muslim-world-charles-bolden.html
I can only imagine what BRK must be thinking right now…
“Or, hey, here’s a novel idea… do something related to outer space. The ‘S’ in NASA stands for ‘Space,’ not ‘soccer.’”
Here here!
First we had 11 MILLION monthly World of Warcraft subscribers, now octopus and parakeets are picking winners in sport? At least we can rest easy knowing humans were crazy BEFORE the World Cup came along. :)
Natina
The next story will be about how the Octupus was eaten…
Nice one.
- annoying octupus ..
It’s fluky.I don’t think octopus will know who chaimpion.
Hey! I’ve been following Paul the Octopus for two weeks now! He’s got a 100% record. If Spain win, bring Paul home and give him Nick Clegg’s job.
And Spinks, did you miss that the whole refereeing team for the final is British? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8802425.stm Even Paul has to take second place to that!
perhaps the German team got affected by his pick~
We’ll see whether Paul is correct again this time.
I’m surprised you guys didn’t batter him up and deep fry him when he didn’t pick England then.
S in NASA is for SPACE, you are so right!!! Or Obama can come up with something else we might want to say!!
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don’t fry paul!! or PETA will get utterly mad.
Octopus Pual choose Spain.!!!
yihaa…. maybe all of german supporter wanna ocktopus must die
NASA…. wasting tax dollars yet again!
Isso é só supertição. Ou montagem quem sabe.
I’d like to get a turtles opinion. :)
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I am Supporting Paul.. as Spain is my Favorite too.
wew,
octopus paul..
:)
i observe that octopus always select (our) right hand side team or box. what its mean ?
eleven-man football is played many ways to win rather than Paul, who must be asked about who was winning, but through hard work and luck to score
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ha ha ha
til now i was agree with octopus, but ryt now m not..koz holland is my fav :)
there is an opponent for octopus,one more pet predicting nowdays…
http://ashay88.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/fifa-2010-final-future/
Ashay
yahoo? get serious! the most important news (i’m still wiping my tears! heeheehee) is in the ny times: http://texttrade.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/the-most-important-news/
That octopus is getting eaten if it’s wrong about the final, it’s already made a few enemies along the way. The fryer and batter might be in order. I always like the quirky stuff NASA do, and with the massive cuts in funding heading their way they’ll be looking for things to keep themselves busy.
I don’t agree with octopus picks…
I am mostly impressed that there is an octopus out there named Paul.
I never thought I’d read about an octopus being involved by this. Hopefully they are treating the octopus well.
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that psycho paul’s gonna face some serious problem… something like death after being famous..
paul just avoided the sushi by an inch :))
I’m convinced animals, insects and plants, are way more intelligent than humans. They never screwed up or polluted Earth in any way. What has, in the long run, our intelligence really given us, or the Earth?
Pollution, wars, coming energy depletion, over population, semi starvation in half the world, wars again, pollution, and the inability to love those who look different, pry to other Gods, seek other goals that don’t seem to fit the way we live.
Who names their octopus Paul. Seriously. I think the article was just a way to generate interest in the World Cup after a string of bad referee calls. This year the World Cup is just nuts. Also, NASA is always complaining how they don’t have enough money to fund space travel but here they are spending their money on soccer balls. Anyways, good to know people are paying attention to the news.
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I recomend you read this article http://chancetx.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/a-world-cup-with-theatrics-referees-and-calamari/
paul has successfully predicted the victory of germany
amazing octopus
octopus is the new black
They’re probably hoaxes, but I must say they’ve been awfully lucky – with soccer, that is. :)
Yeah, NASA has enough to concentrate on. They must be huge soccer fans, looking at teeny soccer balls instead of those huge, FASCINATING planets. :D
ha..ha..ha.. it is really a cheering criticism on current World Cup. The drama or story (whatever you name it) octopus Paul is ending today.
It is just a matter of time. We can see with our own eyes.
It’s really stupid to believe octopus can foresee the result of the match. It’s just a coincidence
In regards to breaking the tie without the use of penalty shot—How about having an expanding net that slowly gets wider and taller as overtime drags on? That would be fantastic…
Also, a soccer overtime session isn’t even sudden-death—that’s absurd right? When you’re an hour and forty minutes into the game and someone scores—that shit should be over instantly…
Still waiting for someone to score in the final—zzzzzzz….
…scratch that—Spain just scored :-)
LOL good article. But you know they can’t report on the huge important things like it raining oil down south, or 500 other things more pressing than where an octopus chooses to sit.
But I have to admit I’ve always thought octopi were interesting to watch. LOL! I’d rather watch an octopus than soccer. ;)
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Well, Spain won. That octopus has just bought a ticket for life out of the calamari frying pan….
haha since spain won i’ve been looking for everything i can about Paul. and yes, Paul is the only word im going to capitalize in this post. if you want to know why he’s really spains mvp check this out: http://2guysandablog.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/spain-hoists-world-cup-trophy-mvp-goes-to-paul-the-octopus/
seriously…these days, the FIFA seems to be more about superstitions than the actual games. We have Paul, and the “cursed” Nike advertisement, and the unlucky press meeting authorized by Maradona…The only thing that’s going to come out of all this is proper preservation of Paul and probably more food (and why are they fighting to know where he came from? Come on!!!)
Just goes to prove, octopuses are very intelligent. They can open jars and escape captivity too, outwitting humans every time. I think they’re just as newsworthy as a bunch of sweaty men heaving a leather ball around a field …
I hate squid. I do not like to eat squid.
Really FiFa FiFa FiFa everywhere.
I like it, we like it. All like it……………..
It becomes greatly enjoying when animal comes to choose soccer winner………………..
new concept………….
what a waste of tax payer money….mscheew!
I want to adopt both those animals and have them make all my major life decisions: who I should date, what kind of pop-tart I should have, etc.
8. Bhagpuss – July 9, 2010
Hey! I’ve been following Paul the Octopus for two weeks now! He’s got a 100% record. If Spain win, bring Paul home and give him Nick Clegg’s job.
Haha! So interesting! you are right!
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