Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Low-Quality Reportage

Important!



The problem with this story is that they could have done a little basic journalism and chose not to: do these animals really have a shot at predicting the winners of Euro Cup games? Pick up the goddamned phone and consult the psychic chicken.

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14 comments:

M. Bouffant said...

I thought entrail distribution was the best way to consult chickens. Now you have to 'phone? Brave new world.

Also chicken.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Now here's another clue for you all — the octopus was Paul.
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Smut Clyde said...

I thought entrail distribution was the best way to consult chickens

I refer you to the final chapter in "Locus Solus", where Mopsus the rooster has been taught to write predictions in Alexandrian acrostics by coughing blood onto a page.
NOT MAKING THIS UP.

Helmut Monotreme said...

I thought the walrus was Paul?

fish said...

I thought entrail distribution was the best way to consult chickens

There are other alternatives.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

nice one, fish.

I suspected I knew where that link was going.

fish said...

I can say poo poo.

J— said...

We'll see if the pig makes onto Liberia's next five-dollar coin.

wiley said...

But can he play the piano?

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Don't disparage oracular pigs!

mikey said...

I know of a horse predicting a triple crown.

Does that count?

Substance McGravitas said...

Where are the groundhogs in all this?

M. Bouffant said...

Where are the groundhogs in all this?
Union regulations. Late Jan. & very early Feb. are all theirs, but they're SOL the rest of the yr.

Smut Clyde said...

Don't disparage oracular pigs!

He's up there in pig heaven