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I'm training my psychic caterpillar to crawl to either of two cabbage leaves marked with footie teams...Mrs.M is not happy as the caterpillar is eating her Sunday veg.....

A columnist in yesterday's Telegraph was talking about his terrier, which apparently had a fantastic knack for picking horses. They'd photocopy the race list from the newspaper, suitably enlarged, put a bit of food next to each horse, and whichever the dog ate first was deemed to be his pick.

Funnily enough, although he had excellent results with horses, he couldn't predict anything else. Lottery, dog racing, elections -- lousy at them all. The lesson for the octopus is "stick with what you know".

Mandrake wrote:I'm training my psychic caterpillar to crawl to either of two cabbage leaves marked with footie teams...Mrs.M is not happy as the caterpillar is eating her Sunday veg.....

Now we just have to get you to the news, and make the two of you world famous!

jomarchan wrote:I have tried the octopus thing with my Budgie. For the last two days I have been teaching him to say Holland and also Spain. This morning he said the word Holland.

The Budgie lies

jomarchan wrote:

jomarchan wrote:I have tried the octopus thing with my Budgie. For the last two days I have been teaching him to say Holland and also Spain. This morning he said the word Holland.

The Budgie lies

I feel like i am living in Carry on Cabbie

Apparently the opctopus is now in intensve care after being found at the bottom of his tank in wheezy hysterics, almost unable to breath, his eyes watering uncontrollably and he was repeatedly slapping four of his thighs with the other four limbs. It seems that someone asked him what the chances were of Birmingham City winning the Premiership this season.....

Can I point out that for every prediction the octopus has made, he has gone to the tank on the right.

Mystery solved.

Eshly wrote:Can I point out that for every prediction the octopus has made, he has gone to the tank on the right.

Mystery solved.

The Budgie still lied.

I, in fact, decided to take advantage of my recent reread of the 13 steps, and predicted the result. In a sealed envelope that was on view (and a good distance from me) the whole time!

Eshly wrote:Can I point out that for every prediction the octopus has made, he has gone to the tank on the right.

Mystery solved.

So... it's the psychic octopus-keeper who instinctively knows which box to put on the right. Still impressive.