"Dang! The rest were a piece of cake, but this one's got me stumped!" 10 July 2010

The cartoon shows an octopus professing itself stumped as it tries to make a decision about whether the All Blacks or the Springboks will win the Tri-nations game on 10th July 2010 - (the All Blacks won 38-3). The octopus succeeded in choosing correctly between Bob Parker and Jim Anderton for the Christchurch mayoralty, Phil Goff and John Key in the 2008 election and David and Robin Bain over who killed the Bain family. Refers to a two-year old "psychic" octopus, who has 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, has so far chosen the winner for every match that Germany has 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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