Psychic Animals
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.
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