Paul The Octopus Memorial: World Cup Prediction Legend Gets 6-Foot Memorial (PICTURES)

BERLIN -- Fans of Paul the Octopus can admire a memorial to the mollusk at the aquarium where he became the World Cup prognosticator.

The Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen unveiled the 6-foot plastic replica of Paul clutching a soccer ball in his eight arms on Thursday.

Aquarium spokeswoman Tanja Munzig says Paul's cremated ashes were placed in a gold-leafed urn inside the ball. Paul died three months ago.

Munzig says fans around the world had asked for a memorial.

Paul correctly tipped the outcome of all seven of Germany's games at last year's World Cup, plus the Spain-Netherlands final. He made his predictions by opening the lid of one of two boxes, each containing a mussel and bearing a team flag.

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Comments

[funny katy]

12:02 AM on 02/01/2011

Intriguing how Paul the octopus was as big a star as the World Cup 2010 itself! Incredibly lucky or attracted by the flag's colours, make your pick... :D

http://yourdailytipsandtrickswiki.blogspot.com/2011/01/farewell-paul.html

[Tobby2k9]

08:10 AM on 01/22/2011

After Paul's dead it's body wasn't flown to Spain to become a Tapas dish.

As a thank you for predicting Spain world cup win.

[OneTop]

11:13 PM on 01/20/2011

Nice ....

Paul sure could pick them ..

[shthar]

09:29 PM on 01/20/2011

This is what you can do when you're not wasting all your money dropping bombs on people half a world away.

[australopitecus01]

09:05 PM on 01/20/2011

They should also name a dish after him. How' bout Calamari Mundial.

[PresidentRobertBooth]

03:07 PM on 01/20/2011

All of Spain thanks you Paul.
 
Bless you

[Malarcus]

02:17 PM on 01/20/2011

Awesome. If Rocky can get one, why not Paul?

[abaybay]

01:00 PM on 01/20/2011

We need our own Paul the Octopus to be POTUS. RIP, Paul.

[Malarcus]

02:41 PM on 01/20/2011

Why do you want an octopus who selects the winner in World Cup matches to be President of the United States? How would one even get on the ballot?

[abaybay]

04:00 PM on 01/20/2011

Because he can predict the future. You took my comment a little too seriously. Write-in.

[chiodo08]

02:49 PM on 01/20/2011

not clever

[abaybay]

04:00 PM on 01/20/2011

Wasn't going for clever... not sure why you thought that?

[Paul The Octopus]

12:48 PM on 01/20/2011

Ok, I'm blushing now. I'm so flattered! :-)

[Gingercake]

10:24 PM on 01/20/2011

LOL!!!

[tlaltecuhtli]

11:58 AM on 01/20/2011

Ah, Paul was a true gentleman and a scholar!

[StAlphonso]

11:22 AM on 01/20/2011

Um, shouldn't that be an 8-foot memorial?

[J0E1]

11:37 AM on 01/20/2011

Hiyoooo....

[ontariogirl]

11:20 AM on 01/20/2011

High five.....RIP Paul.