Posted on 07/16/2010 10:05:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
MOSCOW - One of Russia's most popular newspapers said on Friday it had managed to get Paul, the oracle German octopus which accurately predicted the World Cup results to forecast who will be Russia's next president.
But shhhhhh...Komsomolskaya Pravda said the results of Paul's prediction for the 2012 presidential election have been sealed until election year.
The paper said one of its reporters approached Paul, who lives at the Sea Life attraction in the German city of Oberhausen and put two sheets of paper with the names of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev in front of the soothsaying invertebrate, which pointed to one of the names with a tentacle.
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So the only choices available were Putin and Putin's sock puppet? That sounds like the Soviet/Chicago elections from the good old days.
I hope Paul likes his polonium frosted octo-chow.
LOL.
rofl!!
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. . "Putin's sock puppet" - I liked your phrase so much I did an image search on it!!!
“Kremlin silent on Putin’s flexible young lover story”
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/04/18/1208025421777.html
An election only a democrat could love.
Lol! How can the octopus lose?
Indeed. It's like a sign, "Voting for President Putin begin tomorrow, at 8 am."
Indeed. It's like a sign, "Voting for President Putin begins tomorrow, at 8 am."
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