Tuesday, May 28, 2013

See The Resemblence?


You have to use your imagination a little bit.
From the Daily Telegraph:
Bemused motorists took photographs of the huge JCPenney billboard advertising the kettle as they drove past it on the 405 Interstate highway near Culver City in California, one of America's busiest stretches of roads.
"That Hitler looks like a kettle," commented one user of Reddit, one of the several websites where the image was posted over the weekend.
"He even has his right arm extended," wrote another, while a third added: "I'm a little Nazi, short and stout".
Things that look Hitler have become a popular web meme - with the genre perhaps defined by the house in Swansea that bears an unsettling resemblance to the Nazi Fuhrer.
The kettle - officially the Michael Graves Design Bells and Whistles Stainless Steel Tea Kettle - retails for £35.08 on the JCPenney website, and can be delivered to the UK.   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10084348/Kettle-that-looks-like-Hitler-brews-trouble-for-JCPenney.html
Of course it could be Charlie Chaplin.
Someone in marketing is going to be in trouble.

2 comments:

  1. I totally didn't see it, then I could if I squinted. Thought it was really stupid, and a stretch.

    Then later, I caught a shot of the billboard on Twitter, and it was like BOOM: Hitler!

    When it is seen, it cannot be unseen!

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  2. Makes me think of all of the Jesus and Mary sightings. Since we don't even know what either of them even looked like, I've always wondered how people know that it isn't John Lennon or Tommy Chong, instead of Jesus.

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