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Above is Paul the Octopus – a “psychic” octopus that the Germans rely on to pick the winners of World Cup matches. (Supposedly during the 2008 European Championship, Paul correctly predicted 80 percent of all German games.) Well, looks like someone is trying to artificially pump up (or hoax) Spain’s fan base. They took a photo of Paul from his “psychic pick” for the Germany-Serbia World Cup match and Shopped Spain’s flag (well, most of it – they left off the crest) over Serbia’s.
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UPDATE 7/6/2010: At the big event today Paul wound up picking Spain! See fakers? You didn’t have to even bother! Doesn’t it feel better when it’s for real?
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well… apparently there is a video, though…
http://tv.repubblica.it/speciali/sudafrica-2010/mondiali-il-polipo-indovino-dice-spagna/50172?video&ref=HRER3-1
Bruko – that video was taken at the event *today*. The photo I wrote about was from a few days ago – how could a photo of what Paul picked be posted before the event even happened? Take a look at the photo and then the video – in the video Spain’s flag is correct (it has the crest) in the faked photo it is missing the crest.
So Spain’s fans didn’t have to bother faking anything at all – they could have just waited for Paul’s pick, because he wound up picking them anyway.
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