Update - October 27, 2010: Another one bites the dust. Sadly this morning it was announced Paul the German octopus, who was responsible for the the humiliation of all creatures great and small after his psychic performance during the World Cup, has died. We have reposted the following in honour of dead psychic octopi everywhere.
This is the sickening non-human toll of Saturday’s election - a psychic octopus which has literally worked itself to death trying to determine whether Labor or the Coalition will form government.
Its last words were “No I don’t know what the postal votes are doing in Boothby” and then simply: “F**k this for a joke.”
The octopus is just one of many innocent creatures from the animal world enlisted by a callous and unthinking media to make election predictions in what now ranks as the most hackneyed and unfunny gimmick since changing the words to Hitler’s “Downfall” video.
Over the past five weeks animals which have been subjected to this vile treatment include the Adelaide Zoo pandas, a crocodile at a Darwin wildlife park, a couple of yabbies and any number of octopi which were compelled to copy the antics of Paul the Psychic Octopus, who was worked into the ground by cruel Germans during the soccer World Cup.
The octopus featured above had initially tipped a narrow victory, then amended its tip in week two following the Rudd leaks to say the Coalition could govern in its own right. It then picked a hung parliament last Friday, declared itself quietly confident early Saturday that Labor could sneak home, then reversed its position and said the Coalition was back in the hunt after it saw the early results from Hasluck started coming through at 8.30pm. It spent most of yesterday listening to Bob Katter’s press conference and trying to fathom Rob Oakeshott’s call for “a new politics” before finally expiring just before 5pm.
At the time of its death it had been planning a new career in political journalism.
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