IMAGE
Mollusc Marketing Mussel. 15 July 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Reference
- DCDL-0014808
- Description
The cartoon shows an octopus wearing dark glasses and clutching a bag of money in each of its tentacles. The box on which it sits bears the words 'Mollusc Market Mussel'. A second version has text above reading 'Liquid assets'and the tiny words 'Paulper to prince' written up the side of the frame, and a third version has text above reading 'The Seer Market'. May refer to the news that major mussel producers, including Nelson-based Sealord and Blenheim-based Aotearoa Seafoods, have formed a joint venture company to export to China.The octopus is the two-year old "psychic" octopus, 'Paul', who achieved national celebrity status in Germany for having a 100 percent success rating in choosing match winners. English-born Paul the mollusk, who lives in The Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, chose the winner for every match that Germany played in, having predicted that Germany would beat Australia, Ghana, England and Argentina but lose to Serbia. Paul makes his "predictions" when two plastic boxes are lowered into his tank, both containing a mussel and the German national flag in one box and the flag of the opposing team in the other.
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- Part of
- Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers
- Format
- 3 digital cartoon(s), Works of art, Digital images, Cartoons (Commentary)
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