Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in feud with sea monster. Newslink

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

A deadly man-a-mano struggle 3with a Horro from the Deep.

Well, no.
The octopus is more polite & better behaved than Mr. Ahmadinejad.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian leader, says Paul the Octopus, the sea creature that correctly predicted the outcome of World Cup games, is a symbol of all that is wrong with the western world.
However, the Iranian president accused the octopus of spreading “western propaganda and superstition.” Paul was mentioned by Mr Ahmadinejad on various occasions during a speech in Tehran at the weekend.

“Those who believe in this type of thing cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values,” he said.

[movingfinger]

A delightful story, but not what I was expecting from the OP’s title.

Remember how, back in the days of the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao-Tse-Tung was celebrated for setting some kind of swimming record in the Yangtse River, with photos of his head bobbing above the water to prove he had really done it?

I assumed Ahmadinijad had seen this and thought, Well, Shiite, I can do better than that!
So we would have reports of him pinning Merciless Moishe Obama, the Israeli-American Eight-legged Terror, two falls out of three, proving the superiority of radical Islam.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

I’d have made reference to one of the combatants breathing radioactive fire, but Iran says it has no nuclear weapons program…

[Try2B_Comprehensive]

I for one have seen the light, and will no longer ‘believe in this type of thing’.

[Lare]

@movingfinger

…
I assumed Ahmadinijad had seen this and thought, Well, Shiite, I can do better than that!

Darn it, movingfinger now I have to clean sprayed Pepsi off my monitor.

[thelurkinghorror]

Iran attempted to qualify for the World Cup but failed to do so. I’d guess he’s just sore. He should really be mad at North and [del]South[/del] Imperialist Korea and [del]Saudi Arabia[/del] Slave of Great Satan, House of Saud. Instead he picks on a poor cephalopod.

[Mr.Excellent]

People always pick on folks who’re smarter than them. I hope Paul the Octopus doesn’t take it personally.

[Tequila_Mockingbird]

You know for some reason I can’t get the idea that Cthulu or some other Eldritch diety would probably be Paul the cephalopod’s chosen one…making him most likely not “spreading western propaganda and superstition.”

[conway]

Hmmm…that’s just what a cephalopodic propagandist would say…

[Malleus_Incus_Stapes]

I’ve ceased to be surprised by Achmadinutjob since he broke up that dastardly Zionist squirrel spy ring. Actually, looking up the squirrel story on Google News, it seems he arrested secret agent pigeons, too.

[kidneyfailure]

@Mr.Excellent

I hope Paul the Octopus doesn’t take it personally.

Well, if he does maybe he could call in Gangster Octopus for help.

8 arms, 8 tommy guns?

[Ale]

I read the thread title as “Mammoth Ahmadinejad in feud with sea monster. Newslink”
I think I’d pay to see that!

[carnivorousplant]

Cool!

He’s just pissed about the soccer thing, and saying, “Folks who believe that an octopus can predict this stuff are really stupid!” through a really, really bad or prejudiced translator, right? Right?

[may_be_ignorant]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul

“Those who believe in this type of thing cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values,” he said.

uh oh

[Malleus_Incus_Stapes]

There can never be too many “Mahmoud is nuts” threads. Particularly when octopuses are involved.

[may_be_ignorant]

I apologize and accept capitol punishment as prevention of my future mistakes.

[Marley23]

@may_be_ignorant

I apologize and accept capitol punishment as prevention of my future mistakes.

Sending you to Washington would be an excessive punishment, I think. I’ll just merge the two threads instead.

[thelurkinghorror]

@Ale

I read the thread title as “Mammoth Ahmadinejad in feud with sea monster. Newslink”
I think I’d pay to see that!

New on Syfy: Mammoth President vs. Psychic Kraken.

[armedmonkey]

You left out the part of the speech where Ahmadinejad explains why he hates the octopus. I’ve included it below.

Oh, it must have been about 7, 8 years ago… Me and the little lady were on this boat, you see… All alone at night when all of a sudden, a huge creature, a giant crustacean from the Paleozoic era, comes out of the water! It stood above us looking down with its big red eyes…: And I stood up and yelled “What do you want from us, monster?!”, and he bent down and said “I need to borrow treefiddy…”. I yelled, “I ain’t giving you no tree-fiddy you God damn predicticating octopus! Getcha own God damn money!” Another time there was this girl scout ringing my doorbell. Oh, she was so cute in her little head scarf. I asked her how much she wanted for the cookies and you know what she said?

“I need about treefiddy”

"Well it was about that time when I realized this girl scout was an 8 story tall crustation from the pezazoic era! And I said “DAMN IT OCTOPUS! GET OF MY LAWN!!!”

[Little_Nemo]

@Malleus_Incus_Stapes

I’ve ceased to be surprised by Achmadinutjob since he broke up that dastardly Zionist squirrel spy ring. Actually, looking up the squirrel story on Google News, it seems he arrested secret agent pigeons, too.

Did you hear about the Iranian Doctor Doolittle? He made the animals talk.