Oracles are strange; the reason for oracles to be strange is unknown. Maybe they despise the world and its asinine people who quibble over small matters, or maybe its just the sheer monotony of life that gives them their seemingly unnatural powers. It’s pretty much like being Superman on Krypton. Nobody will give an oracle any undue attention because on Krypton everybody can fly. Meh! No big deal. However, oracles are revered the world over since ancient times, and Paul is the definitive ‘man’ in this FIFA session with the players behaving like little girls.
Remember the oracles of ancient Rome were either physically deformed or exceedingly sexy, the oracle from Matrix lived in her own world giving cookies as death threats and the one from Pirates of the Caribbean was – well she was in her own league. Fast forward to FIFA 2010, and we have entered a new class of oracles. This one has eight legs, lives underwater and predicts the winning team of the match that plays against Germany. Yes, Paul is one awesome eight-legged dude. With a name like Paul – we couldn’t expect better.
With a name borrowed from the title of a poem Der Tintenfisch Paul Oktopus by the German children’s writer Boy Lornsen. Paul the octopus was born in 2008 at the Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, Dorset, England. He is now residing in a tank in Sea Life Oberhausen in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul the octopus has the psychic ability to predict the winner of an international football match. His only reservation is that the contesting teams should be Germany vs (anyone). How did the men find out that he has the powers to predict the match winner is another story. His reason for this German prediction is unfathomable, but then he is an oracle and oracles do not give explanations. If you dare ask for one – expect some ink.
Paul the octopus has a rather queer way of predicting the match winner. In his tank are placed two glass box containing the flags of the Germans and their opponent respectively along with some exotic food like oyster or mussel. Indeed the animal needs some motivation to pick a certain box. The glass box that Paul the octopus chooses to sit on, eventually wins the match. Let me tell you that octopuses are colour blind and he maybe just liking the pattern of the flag inside the box. It could have been that his prediction is only coincidental. But Mr. Paul, the octopus, has an amazing record of 10 out of 12 correct predictions. He has been faulted only twice that too in EURO 2008, when Croatia beat Germany in the group stage and Spain beat Germany in the finals. It is not that Paul the Octopus only sits on the German flag every time. He chose the Serbian flag in the group stage and the Spanish one in the semi-finals of FIFA 2010. Needless to say Germany lost, and Paul became enemy no. 1 to a whole lot of Germans.
Paul, the octopus has become the first octopus celebrity with people actually leaving South Africa to go visit him. He is currently the hottest bloke on Twitter. When the bookies were predicting that Maradona’s team will lift the cup – Paul the Octopus said ‘nay’. And so it was. Now the men have gone impatient and asked Paul the octopus the oracle that who will finally lift the cup. For the first time he had to choose from a non German flag between Spain & Holland. He has chosen the Spanish – one either that or he just wanted the food that was in the Spanish glass box.
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