Pulpo Paul Phenomenon.
Used in a sentence: "I may not be the most hip, but when I saw the list of Top 10 Tweets of 2010, I felt confident that I would be 'in the know' about every item -- which is why I was so shocked to discover I had missed out on last year's Pulpo Paul Phenomenon (#10 on the list)."
Somehow I went through months not knowing that the outcomes of World Cup matches were being determined by a prognosticating octopus (an oddity made more palatable once I considered my own country's faith in Punxsutawney Phil). And how could I have not heard that Mahmound Ahmadinejad railed against it as a sign of the west's decadence (what was it, a gay octopus?)?
So this is what waking from a coma feels like ...
I KNEW THE VUVUZELA AND THE JUSTIN BIEBER:
http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/top-twitter-trends-2010/#
I'M SURE THE OCTOPUS JUST WANTED TO EAT!:
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Paul-the-octopus-has-made-his-final-selections?urn=sow-254898
DECADENCE AND DECARY, CRIES MAHMOUD!:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7912418/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-attacks-Octopus-Paul.html
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