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RIP - Paul the Octopus

  • 26-10-2010 11:02am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭


    http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/world-cup-oracle-paul-the-octopus-dies-479198.html


    Paul the octopus, which won unlikely worldwide fame correctly predicting a host of World Cup matches, has died, his owners said today.

    Stefan Porwoll, manager of the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany, said: “His success made him almost a bigger story than the World Cup itself.”
    Paul predicted the winners of all Germany’s World Cup clashes, and then of the final by selecting one of two boxes, each loaded with a mussel food treat and marked on the outside with one of the teams.
    Staff at the centre said his death was not entirely unexpected, since common octopuses generally only live a couple of years.
    “He appears to have passed away peacefully during the night, of natural causes, and we are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life here,” said Mr Porwoll.
    “We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine.”
    Paul will live on meanwhile in the form of a range of commercial enterprises ranging from special clothing lines to mobile phone applications.

    He will also feature in a documentary to be released early next year.





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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    He died in the soccer forum about 10 minutes ago.
    IBTL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    It's not right to make jokes about Paul the Octopus so soon. I mean, the ink hasn't even dried yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    RIP. Hope this doesn't turn into one of the usual celebrity death threads full of jokes :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Just like the Mayans. If he was so great where is he now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I bet he didn't predict that. :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    No!! I was hoping he'd pick the x factor winner so I could use his predictions on the x factor prediction thread and win!!!:(:(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I hope they give him a good send off. Perhaps they could make him into an octo pie?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Sanjuro


    Did he see it coming, or was it a complete shock to him? Shocktopus.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    lizt wrote: »
    No!! I was hoping he'd pick the x factor winner so I could use his predictions on the x factor prediction thread and win!!!:(:(

    :eek: That's how you've been doing it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    RIP.

    May he octupi our thoughts today.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    He was a bit of a sucker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Imagine the shape of the coffin haha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    Wasn't his very last prediction that Brian Kerr would take the Faroe Islands to the Euros?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    :eek: That's how you've been doing it

    Yep. Me and Paul we're like that *mimes interlocking finger and tentacle*
    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Fago! wrote: »
    Imagine the shape of the coffin haha

    I imagine it'll be something like this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    RIP Paul.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I bet he didn't predict that. :pac:

    I bet he did. He predicted it last week....I got 6/4


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer


    Shocking. There better not be any sick bastards who make jokes at this, too soon for that. But he is up there now, with the other psychics, Jesus, Professor X and that kid from Final Destination 1.

    God bless you Paul, I did much better in my World Cup fantasy football cup because of you!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    They should lash him in a blender and feed him to prison inmates.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    In tribute to Paul the Psychic Octopus, the fourth round of the Carling Cup will be played over eight legs.......


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    To all my Octopuses drinking water, tears in everybodys eyes,
    Octopuses cried to mourn a Octopuses homicide.

    THEY KILLED HIM :cries: I KNOW IT!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 micktrim


    All these jokes about Paul the Octopus are just Kraken me up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I wonder if this will turn out to be a false alarm, like the day Trigger "died".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I wonder if this will turn out to be a false alarm, like the day Trigger "died".

    Roger Lloyd Pack has died? Jayus. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Roger Lloyd Pack has died? Jayus. :(

    I think he means Jason McAteer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    Fago! wrote: »
    They should lash him in a blender and feed him to prison inmates.

    When I posted that in the Gerry Ryan thread I was banned.:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    bonerm wrote: »
    I think he means Jason McAteer.

    I meant Keano's dog, Triggs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    Aww noway, he was deadly! RIP Paul :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    When I posted that in the Gerry Ryan thread I was banned.:mad:

    Ahahaha, t'wouldn't be a prison, it'd be a small nation he'd be feeding.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Flojo wrote: »
    Aww noway, he was deadly! RIP Paul :(

    He's more dead than deadly now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I meant Keano's dog, Triggs.

    Well at least he died happy. Keano used to wa*k Triggs three times a day.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Did he have a heart heart heart attack?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭markphillips


    RIP.

    Our loss in octopus heaven's gain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Mezcita


    RIP Paul. My 1000th post could not go to a more deserving cephalopod.

    Your skills won me a few quid during the world cup. Respect.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I heard on the radio yesterday that he was writing an autobiography.

    I guess it will have to be ghost written now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Fago! wrote: »
    Imagine the shape of the coffin haha
    Here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    <snip>

    I hate it yet I love it at the same time!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    He ruined football. RIP.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,566 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I bet he didn't predict that. :pac:

    Very original


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭MickShamrock


    Bet he didn't predict that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,566 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Bet he didn't predict that!

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭The Waltzing Consumer


    fullstop wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,323 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I bet he didn't predict that. :pac:

    Perhaps not, but even my blind granny saw THAT joke coming :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I bet he didn't predict that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    If I may say a prayer. Spectacles, tentacles, wallets and watch....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Awww the poor thing! RIP :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I bet he didn't predict that. :pac:

    He predicted where Maddie Mccann is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Seeing those Germans queuing up to sign the book of condolences was just unbelievable. How sad can it get?


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