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World Cup Final: Octopus vs Parakeet
Paul the octopus has spoken, and he’s chosen Spain to win the World Cup. But Mani the parakeet has answered, and he’s chosen the Netherlands. One of them is going to be wrong.
Yep, we have a new non-human World Cup prognosticator on the scene, and it’s a 13 year old parakeet from Singapore who predicts the winner by picking up one of two cards. According to this Associated Press story on The Guardian webiste:
If the bird’s many new believers are right, Holland will win their first World Cup. Mani grabbed a card in his beak today and flipped it over to reveal the Dutch flag.
The 13-year-old parakeet has become a local celebrity after its owner, M Muniyappan, claimed Mani accurately forecast the World Cup’s four quarter-final games and Spain’s semi-final victory over Germany. “He’s a special bird,” Muniyappan said.
Seems to me that this parakeet is a bit late on the scene, and I particularly like Brian at Dirty Tackle’s analogy that Mani the parakeet is “the Monkee to the octopus’ Beatle”. All that’s left is for Mani to make a surprisingly experimental film. The key to all this appears to be the parakeet’s owner:
Muniyappan, an 80-year-old fortuneteller, said Mani has helped him predict the future for five years at a table in front of a restaurant in the Little India neighbourhood, but this year’s World Cup is the first time the parakeet has attempted to forecast the outcome of sports competitions.
“People usually want help picking the lottery numbers, or when to get married,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” said Muniyappan, who was born in India and moved to Singapore in 1953. “Then gamblers started asking about the World Cup.”
Muniyappan said about 30 people a day now pay for his psychic powers, up from about 10 a day before Mani shot to fame.
Now we have a problem, because both pet predictors have chosen different teams. So one of these creatures is clearly a fraud, while the other is the true clairvoyant. We’ll find out which one on Sunday.