Alhaji Righteous De Ambitious: World Cup 2010 Blog: “The Prognosticating Panda” plus 1 more

Saturday, June 30, 2012

World Cup 2010 Blog: “The Prognosticating Panda” plus 1 more

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 01:10 PM PDT

There are too many to count at this point, and their scoreboards are surely dismal, particularly when compared to Paul the ‘Pus. Lin Ping the panda wins the award for best psychic, if only because pandas are awesome.

They say she “chose Spain and Germany” but it certainly appears she heads to Spain and Italy first, no? It was simply too difficult to take the ball off the Italians.

Insert commentary on Andrea Pirlo here.

There’s No Place Like Italy

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:33 AM PDT

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While many Italians were fortunate enough to be off work for the Germany v Italy semifinal yesterday, others were slaving away at their jobs, unable to witness their country earn a spot in the final. Well, some of them, anyway.

Union leaders of metalworkers in Italy have called for a four-hour strike overlapping the Italy-Germany semifinal in the European Championship on Thursday, and Fiat’s crying foul.

The Italian automaker said in a statement that the choice of the timing leaves ”no doubt” that ”watching a football game was more important than going to work” for the union.

These people should receive medals.