Tuesday, July 13, 2010

One should know better to put his rep on a animal

The world cup is over. It seems while the ballers.... as in the footballers that got all the news and action, so do the animals. Not exactly animals but it all started by the keepers. The Paul the octopus made predictions by choosing its food from boxes that was labeled by the flags of the country that is in a match. Somehow the octopus got all the boxes that the labeled flag of the country won the matches. Plain luck or the octopus really knows what's happening? If it is plain luck it certainly got lucky on all the matches. In any case, the other animal, a bird, at least it looks like a parrot but smaller, failed to predict the last two matches. As usual the keeper, or for this case the owner started to put the limelight on the poor bird just because it got one match correct and it was only in the news after the match was over. So you can't blame the animals. The owner, especially the owner of the bird have himself to blame. Although he operate a fortune telling stall, everyones takes the fortune telling with a pinch of salt. But to put the bird to predict the matches when Paul is in the news it would take more damage when the bird fail to predict. In any case, the bird did not predict all the matches while the octopus predict all the matches correctly. Now the octopus is a celebrity and it boost visitors even to aquariums around the world just to look at a octopus. As for the bird, the business for the owner dropped as reported by the medias. It is a big risk and the bird owner took it and lost.

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