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Recently there was a revision which removed the paragraph regarding the president's of Iran comments. As it didn't seem necessary, I didn't revert it as vandalism. Any thoughts?L3X1 (talk) 17:23, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
Parry Gripp, who created the Raining Tacos - Parry Gripp & BooneBum video that was featured in an Optimum commercial and all those cute animal-themed videos, created one for Paul, uploaded to Youtube by Gripp on Jul 9, 2010: Paul The Octopus - song by Parry Gripp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftUvfi1J0QI . To date, there have been over 1,700,000 views. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 04:47, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
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There's a problem with the first para. As IP 101 points out, "Petty the pygmy hippopotamus spurning Serbia's apple-topped pile of hay
" would have been a correct prediction. So now the paragraph (and the spiegel.de source] no longer makes sense. Also the second source, to Factiva, is a 404 error. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:11, 4 April 2022 (UTC)