Sunday’s World Cup final seems too close to call-- but not for the world’s new favorite psychic animal. Paul the Octopus, from Oberhausen, Germany,
picked Spain for the second time in a row on live TV after correctly predicting his home country would be eliminated in the semi-finals. In the now familiar routine, two boxes were lowered into Paul's tank, each containing a mussel and the flags of the two opposing teams. The tentacled tipster went straight to the Spanish box, wrenched open the lid and gobbled the tasty morsel.
This new development no doubt increased Germans' appetite for octopus sushi nationwide. Paul now stands 6-0 for the tournament, having correctly predicted the outcome of every German game, including its upset at the hands of Serbia in the group stage. The psychiuc cephalopod even drew death threats for picking against Germany in the semi-finals, though Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero has promised the cephalopod state protection.
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