# Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in feud with sea monster. Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374 "2010-07-28T21:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/1 "2010-07-28T21:45:12Z")
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](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7912418/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-Octopus-Paul.html)** > > 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. > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/2 "2010-07-29T07:08:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/3 "2010-07-29T10:18:32Z")
I’d have made reference to one of the combatants breathing radioactive fire, but Iran says it _has no_ nuclear weapons program… ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/4 "2010-07-29T13:29:48Z")
I for one have seen the light, and will no longer ‘believe in this type of thing’. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/5 "2010-07-29T16:37:44Z")
> [@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.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/6 "2010-07-29T18:57:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/7 "2010-07-29T19:53:04Z")
People always pick on folks who’re smarter than them. I hope **Paul the Octopus** doesn’t take it personally. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/8 "2010-07-29T20:07:59Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/9 "2010-07-29T20:16:08Z")
Hmmm…that’s just what a cephalopodic propagandist would say… ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/10 "2010-07-29T23:52:55Z")
I’ve ceased to be surprised by Achmadinutjob since he broke up that dastardly [Zionist squirrel spy ring](http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11A62C1390F143D8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM). Actually, looking up the squirrel story on Google News, it seems he arrested secret agent pigeons, too. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/11 "2010-07-30T00:49:30Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/12 "2010-07-30T02:27:56Z")
I read the thread title as “Mammoth Ahmadinejad in feud with sea monster. Newslink” I think I’d pay to see that! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/13 "2010-07-30T02:36:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/14 "2010-07-30T03:23:22Z")
> **[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacks Octopus Paul](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7912418/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-Octopus-Paul.html)** > > 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. > [@](#): > > “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 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/15 "2010-07-30T03:35:13Z")
[There can never be too many “Mahmoud is nuts” threads. Particularly when octopuses are involved.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=572597) ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/16 "2010-07-30T03:39:39Z")
I apologize and accept capitol punishment as prevention of my future mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/17 "2010-07-30T04:39:11Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/18 "2010-07-30T18:24:10Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/19 "2010-07-30T23:08:45Z")
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!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374/20 "2010-07-31T00:28:34Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I’ve ceased to be surprised by Achmadinutjob since he broke up that dastardly [Zionist squirrel spy ring](http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11A62C1390F143D8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM). 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-in-feud-with-sea-monster-newslink/548374.md?page=2)