Due to a Resemblance, JC Penney's 'Hitler Tea Kettle' Sold Out in Hours

Michael Graves-Designed Stainless Steel Tea Kettle Resembles Hitler

A JCPenney billboard featuring an exclusive Michael Graves-designed tea kettle has been turning the heads of motorists driving along the 405 near Culver City and the kettle has even sold out at JC Penney.com.

The attention is not so much for the teapot's "cool-touch handle" or its "space-saving design" but rather for its uncanny Resemblance to Adolf Hitler - its handle, cap and spout, Resembling the Führer’s do, mustache and arm outstretched in salute - with some even seeing a tie.

The odd coincidence was first posted by Reddit user "Wrestles4Food" with the title,"This Kettle looks like Hitler!" and has since been covered by news agencies the world over.

The fact that the kettle's profile looks eerily like the Fuhrer's mien caused a stir online Tuesday, forcing the company to respond in a Tweet that read "jcpenney @Telegraph "Certainly unintended. If we'd designed the kettle to look like something, we would've gone w/a snowman: http://t.co/KFWVI1Csgz About one day ago via jcpenney .

Things that look Hitler have become a popular web meme - with the genre perhaps defined by the house in Swansea that bears a Resemblance to the Nazi Fuhrer.  The slanted roof was said to resemble the Hitler fringe, the door lintel was the moustache and the small top windows were seen as the dictator’s piercing eyes.  The tweet was first posted by Extractionist Charli Dickenson in 2011, a 22 year old youth worker, who Recognized the bizarre similarity as she drove past one day.

All of this was preceded by “Kitler” a nickname used to describe white cats with black markings under their noses that resemble German dictator Adolf Hitler’s toothbrush mustache and on their foreheads Resembling hair parted on it's side. Cats with these coats were popularized in June 2006 by the single topic site Cats that Look Like Hitler, which was created by Dutch journalist & Extractionist Koos Plegt, who set up a blog to showcase such photos after seeing a cat with this coat pattern in his hometown of Zwolle, Holland.

Sources : http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/jc-penneys-hitler-tea-kettle-sold-out-in-hours-because-this-is-the-internet/276334/

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/28/hitler-kettle-jc-penny-advert_n_3344752.html?just_reloaded=1

http://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/comments/1f16bf/this_kettle_looks_like_hitler_xpost_from_rpics/

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl

(photo credit: via jcpenny.com)

Cat and House that Resemble Hitler

Another look at Hitler kettle, glimpsed from a California billboard.

Concorde Takes Flight Again

On this day that we look to the skies for a solar eclipse, The Replica Report looks up - at the clouds!  Extractionist Roy Peckham of Pontypridd, South Wales is the reason why this time as he has photographed a wonderful Replica.

 The Concorde was the first turbojet-powered airliner and was considered a marvel of engineering before it was retired in 2003, so, how could it be taking flight again in 2013?  Well it wasn't, it was the ghost of Concorde - a cloud that formed over the countryside in the shape of the grounded passenger jet.

Mr. Peckham, 66, spotted the plane-shaped cloud as it moved through the evening sky and said the cloud was coming from the direction of the Brecon Beacons.

He said: 'I saw the cloud and as it approached it became more and more defined.
'It looked like Concorde was flying across the countryside and about to land in Pontypridd.'

This story was first published by Sara Smyth on 5 May 2013.

Sources: http://www.meteoweb.eu/2013/05/pareidolia-in-galles-una-nube-che-ricorda-il-concorde-le-immagini/201608/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319797/Ghost-Concorde-Cloud-forms-countryside-shape-grounded-passenger-jet.html

http://swns.com/

Orange You A Virgin?

     FARMINGTON, ME -- Desmond Duguay dotes Dots! So back in February, Desmond and his wife, Amy, went to Rite Aid in Auburn for snacks - one of which was a box of Dots.  Duguay said he ate a few of the gummy candies, felt the funny piece in his hand and showed it to his wife. On a whim, they nicknamed it “The Holy Dot” and listed it on eBay.

From eBay : "So I was eating a box of DOTS today and I found none other than the Virgin Mary herself just chillin' with her other DOT disciples. Just last week my wife and I had our first child and I am convinced that a higher power has stepped in and literally dumped a second miracle in our lap in the form of this Gummy Virgin Mary. A miracle that will no doubt equate to millions of dollars and our child's college tuition bought and paid for. I know that this Gummy Virgin Mary is near priceless and that if I held onto it, it would only appreciate in value. Having just had my beautiful son though I need to be thinking about his future and must let this miracle gummy go and put all proceeds into my son's college fund. This is a 100% authentic Gummy Virgin Mary, that may or may not have mystical and spiritual powers. All I can say is that since I have had this gummy in my possession I have not contracted any viruses, sexually transmitted diseases, or illnesses that I know of and I feel amazing.. Is this due to the Gummy Virgin Mary? I think so."

     As Replica Report readers know, a Resemblance is even more valuable if it was made unintentionally or inadvertently.  We believe it is authentic but many websites are claiming that the gummy candy was made intentionally and are crying foul.

     In a post titled, “A virgin dot? We think not!”, CorporateMal.com skeptically compared the Duguay’s photo to a small Virgin Mary candy mold sold on eBay by A World of Moulds in the United Kingdom.

     From that website:

    “Now there is no way to know for sure what the real story is behind this piece of piousness. However, we can all agree that as long as there are people like the Duguays and a candy like Dots, America will always be the undisputed leader in delicious delusional devotions.”

  The write-up was good for a laugh, but it wasn’t so, Duguay said.  He claims his is no doctored Dot.   “I bought the box unopened,” he said. “I have no idea if or how it could have been placed there . . . We did not modify the Dot one bit.”   His best guess: It’s a defect that quality control missed.
After two initial days of furious activity that saw 42 bids, the auction had stalled by Monday at $215, with three days left to go.  Finally, on March 8th it sold for $305.

Here's Desmond's Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/desmondd?fref=ts

Sources : http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/2013/02/27/virgin-mary-candy-sweet-deal-turner-couple/1327036

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Virgin-Mary-found-in-box-of-DOTS-/190803956605?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c6ccd537d

http://corporatemal.com/2013/03/01/a-virgin-dot-we-think-not-a-sweet-scandal-awaits-the-new-pontiff/

Shroud of Turin, Meet Cloth of Saugus

      SAUGUS, Mass. -- Brian Krantz is the latest Extractionist to be covered by news agencies all over the nation because of a Replica he Recognized and Extracted!

      Krantz used the drop cloth four years ago to spray paint his shutters; he used it 50 or 60 more times before he noticed something for the first time.   “I had it folded up like this and I threw it on the floor and this is what I saw first,” Krantz said as he held up the cloth.

     “My heart went a hundred million miles an hour. I couldn't breath, I felt like I was hyperventilating” said Brian Krantz.

     From a distance, it's a paint splattered drop cloth. But take a closer look… “A crown or a halo. Two eyes. Looks like a mustache, nose, there’s the chin, jaw line.” said Krantz.  He goes on to Extract an extended right arm with, and here's where it gets good, the Shroud hanging from the arm, a background, doorway and tomb.  So the Cloth of Saugus depicts the Shroud of Turin!

     The fact that this drop cloth has so many Resemblances that complete a whole scene along with it's creation having been inadvertent or unintentional makes this a special Replica.

     To Brian Krantz, the image is perfectly clear.  “I can't deny this. This is what it is. It looks like Jesus Christ,” Krantz said. (We here at the Replica Report tend to think it looks a Costa Rican villager with a hat)

     Like any good Extractionist, Krantz said he plans to frame the image and keep it in his home.


Sources : http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/north/10010099510473/saugus-man-claims-jesus-christ-depicted-on-cloth/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanhardman/2459962836/

http://www.wickedlocal.com/saugus/news/x711937422/Saugus-man-sees-im

video : http://youtu.be/37nsG4wCuhw

Ohio Buckeye and a Buck's Eye

The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. How much do you want to bet that Native Americans got the name from the Resemblance the tree's fruit bears to the buck's eyeball? We'll let you judge for yourselves.
The Ohio buckeye is the state tree of Ohio, and its name is an original term of endearment for the pioneers on the Ohio frontier, with specific association with William Henry Harrison. Capt. Daniel Davis of the Ohio Company of Associates, under Gen. Rufus Putnam, traversed the wilderness in the spring of 1788, and began the settlement of Ohio. Davis was said to be the second man ashore at Point Harmar, 7 April 1788, and he declared later that he cut the first tree felled by a settler west of the Ohio River, a "buckeye" tree. Additionally, Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, another founder of that same pioneer city of Marietta, had a tall and commanding presence; he greatly impressed the local Indians, who in admiration dubbed him “Hetuck”, meaning eye of the buck deer, or Big Buckeye. Subsequently, the word is used as the nickname and colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and The Ohio State University's sports teams. The Ohio State University adopted "Buckeyes" officially by the school as its nickname in 1950, and came to be applied to any student or graduate of the university.

It is native primarily to the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the Nashville Basin. It is also found locally in the extreme southwest of Ontario, on Walpole Island in Lake St. Clair, and in isolated populations in the South. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 50–82 feet tall.
The leaves are palmately compound with five (rarely seven) leaflets, 3-6 inches long and broad. The flowers are produced in panicles in spring, yellow to yellow-green, each flower 3/4 - 1⅛ inches long with the stamens longer than the petals (unlike the related Yellow Buckeye, where the stamens are shorter than the petals). The fruit is a round or oblong spiny capsule 1½ - 2 inches diameter, containing 1-3 nut-like seeds, 3/4 - 1⅛ inches in diameter, brown with a whitish basal scar.
The fruits contain tannic acid, and are poisonous for cattle, and possibly humans. Native Americans would blanch them, extracting the tannic acid for use in leather. Src : Wikipedia

2011 Review of Replicas (pareidolia playlist)

     This list is the first of its kind to look at the field of what some call pareidolia in a unique and introspectful way by categorizing a cursing baby doll with a devil finding Roman art restorer.  Exciting Replicas of 2011 include such fields as Cryptozoology, Archeology, and Pre-Renaissance Art as well as such personalities as Kate Middleton, Gandhi, and Hitler.

January

 Title: Icy Virgin
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary
 Extractionist: Jennifer Bloomer
 Matrix: Ice
 Location: DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich.
 Date: 01/26/2011
 Link: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/photos-appear-to-show-likeness-of-virgin-mary-in-ice

March

 Title: Virgin Mary on the Rocks
 Resemblance: Hooded Virgin Mary
 Extractionist: Caroline Gray
 Matrix: Cliff
 Location: Newquay's Western Beach, Cornwall
 Date: 02 Mar 2011
 Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8358666/Image-of-Virgin-Mary-spotted-in-Newquay-cliff.html

 Title: Baked Jesus and Mary
 Resemblance: Jesus and Mary
 Extractionist: Josh Mather
 Matrix: Pizza Oven Diffuser
 Location: Mansfield, Boston
 Date: 10 Mar 2011
 Link: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/man-sees-jesus-mary-on-side-of-pizza-oven-20110309

 Title: Google Map Virgin Mary
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus
 Extractionist: Steve Hirst and Carl Richards
 Matrix: Google Map Photo of Sand
 Location: Lancashire, Brittain
 Date: 18th March 2011
 Link: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/8918183.Image_of__Mary_and_Jesus__at_Lancashire_construction_site/

 Title:  Lord Cheesus
 Resemblance: Jesus
 Extractionist: Maree Phelan
 Matrix: 3 Cheese Pizza
 Location: New Farm, Brisbane
 Date: 30 March 2011
 Link: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/face-of-jesus-christ-appears-in-three-cheese-pizza/story-e6frfhk6-1226030824138

 Title: House of Hitler
 Resemblance: Adolf Hitler
 Extractionist: Charli Dickenson
 Matrix: House facade
 Location: Port Tenant, Swansea, Wales
 Date: 30 Mar 2011
 Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8414149/House-that-looks-like-Hitler-catches-eye-of-Twitter-users.html

April

 Title: Kate Middleton Spotted on Jelly Bean
 Resemblance: Kate Middleton
 Extractionist: Wesley Hosie
 Matrix: Jelly Bean
 Location: Somerset, England
 Date: 14 April 2011
 Link: http://abcnews.go.com/International/Royal_Diary_Blog/jelly-bean-resembling-kate-middleton-auctioned-500/story?id=13374818

June

 Title: Gandhi is Out of this World
 Resemblance: Mahatma Gandhi
 Extractionist: Matteo Ianneo
 Matrix: Photo of Planet Crater
 Location: 33°12'29.82"N, 12°55'51.21"W, Mars
 Date: 13 June 2011
 Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/14/scitech/main20071013.shtml

 Title: The Lord's Name in Vein
 Resemblance: Letters: G-O-D
 Extractionist: Audreanna Phelps
 Matrix: Varicose Veins
 Location: Kansas
 Date: 15 Jun 2011
 Link: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/offbeat/kansas-woman-sees-gods-name-in-vein-20110615

 Title: Kudzu Christ
 Resemblance: Jesus on a Cross
 Extractionist: Kent Hardison
 Matrix: a vine in a growth of kudzu on a local utility pole
 Location: Kinston, N.C.
 Date: 29 June 2011
 Link: http://www.myfox8.com/news/wghp-story-jesus-kudzu-kinston-110629,0,5202853.story

 

July

 Title: Receipt Jesus in your Heart
 Resemblance: Jesus
 Extractionist: Jacob Simmons
 Matrix: Receipt
 Location: Anderson County, S.C.
 Date: 15 July 2011
 Link: http://www.wyff4.com/video/28568636/detail.html

 Title: Keep it Clean around Virgin Mary
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary
 Extractionist: Gary Burrell
 Matrix: Bathroom 3-inch stone tile
 Location:  Moore, Oklahoma
 Date: 20 July 2011
 Link: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=18&articleid=20110720_18_0_MOEWea99930

 Title: Jesus is DiVine
 Resemblance: Christ during the crucifixion
 Extractionist: Don Taylor
 Matrix: Vine on Telephone Pole
 Location:  Littleton, Colo.
 Date: July 25, 2011
 Link: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28663662/detail.html?hpt=us_bn7

 
 

August

 Title: Mary and the Missing Limb
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary
 Extractionist: Marce Suarez
 Matrix: Mesquite Tree
 Location: 3½ miles west of Anson, Texas
 Date: 3 Aug 2011
 Link: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/aug/03/virgin-mary-image-found-in-tree/

 Title: A Head in the Clouds
 Resemblance: A Face
 Extractionist: Denis Laforge (Denis Farmer)
 Matrix: Cloud
 Location: Grand Falls in New Brunswick, Canada
 Date: 4 Aug 2011
 Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1038285--video-ghostly-cloud-faces-appear-over-new-brunswick

 Title: Mary Mango
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary Praying
 Extractionist: Male Yuma Teen (Jon Archuleta)
 Matrix: Dried Mango Slice
 Location: Yuma, Arizona
 Date: 5 Aug 2011
 Link: http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Virgin-Mary-on-a-dried-mango-126866648.html

 Title: Mary & Jesus are not Shellfish
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary & Baby Jesus
 Extractionist: Felicia Avila
 Matrix: Seashell
 Location: just outiside Los Angeles in Norwalk, California
 Date: 16 Aug 2011
 Link: http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=652185#.Ts14flb4IcF

 Title: Concrete Christ
 Resemblance: Jesus Christ's Face
 Extractionist: Mary Vasquez
 Matrix: Concrete Patio Floor
 Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
 Date: 30 Aug 2011
 Link: http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2011-08-30/news/29947840_1_patio-pentecostal-jesus

 Title: Fertility Acupuncturist Births Baby Carrot
 Resemblance: Alien Baby
 Extractionist: Yvonne Darnell
 Matrix: Carrot
 Location: Burgess Hill, West Sussex
 Date: 31 Aug 2011
 Link: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/873966-the-carrot-baby-of-west-sussex

 September

 Title: A Cross Face
 Resemblance: Face of Jesus
 Extractionist: Clay Perry
 Matrix: Wood Bark
 Location: Newnan, GA Coweta County
 Date: 1 Sept 2011
 Link: http://newnan.11alive.com/news/news/80094-newnan-face-jesus-bark-handmade-cross

 Title: Mary Rocks Baby Jesus
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary holding Baby Jesus
 Extractionist: Tammy Tollett’s son
 Matrix: Rock
 Location: Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, USA
 Date: 2 Sept 2011
 Link: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/ktxl-lake-tahoe-woman-says-she-found-virgin-mary-on-rock-20110901,0,1968917.story

 Title: The Scream
 Resemblance: Screamig Head
 Extractionist: Susan De Vanny
 Matrix: Photograph of Water, Light, Oil Combination
 Location: USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
 Date: 27 Sep 2011

 Link: http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/Mystery-figure-appears-in-photo-taken-by/trp5Plb7SES-CqZYRL4ArQ.cspx

 

October 

 Title: Squid Self-Portrait
 Resemblance: The pattern of sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle, with each amphicoelous vertebra strongly resembling a coleoid sucker.
 Extractionist: Mark McMenamin and Dianna Schulte-McMenamin
 Matrix: Ichthyosaur Bones
 Location: Central Nevada, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
 Date: 10 Oct 2011

 Link: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/the-giant-prehistoric-squid-that-ate-common-sense/

 Title: This is Nuts!
 Resemblance: Face Aghast
 Extractionist: G. Gregory Roberts and Naji J. Touma
 Matrix: Ultrasound of Testicular Tumor from Dec 2009
 Location: Queen's University in Ontario, Canada
 Date: 31 Oct 2011

 Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8860498/Face-discovered-in-testicular-tumour.html

 

November

 Title: Devil in the Details
 Resemblance: Devil's Profile with Horn
 Extractionist: Chiara Frugone
 Matrix: Giotto Fresco No. 20
 Location: In the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Rome, Italy
 Date: 6 Nov 2011
 Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45182628/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/devil-details-hidden-famous-giotto-fresco/

 Title: Christ Cliff
 Resemblance: Jesus Christ
 Extractionist: Fiona Fay and Sandra Clifford
 Matrix: Rocks and Vegetation
 Location: Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland
 Date: 12 Nov 2011
 Link: http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/us-tourist-photographed-image-of-jesus-on-irish-cliffs-278007-Nov2011/

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/US-tourist-says-she-captured-image-of-Jesus-on-Cliffs-of-Moher-133715288.html

 Title: Crazy Talk
 Resemblance: "Okay, crazy bitch!"
 Extractionist: Unknown
 Matrix: Audio Baby Babble
 Location: Plastic Baby Doll
 Date: 17 Nov 2011
 Link: http://www.fox23news.com/news/local/story/Toy-doll-may-swear-you-decide/rIT19c5XYECalO9pwXeBjw.cspx

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/21/cursing-baby-doll.html

 Title: Cross an Angel
 Resemblance: the shape of a cross or possibly a winged-angel crowned by a halo
 Extractionist: Jim Rants with one of his workers
 Matrix: Wood Logs, Cross-sectioned
 Location: First Congregational Church of Escondido 1800 North Broadway, Escondido, CA

 Date: 23 Nov 2011

 Link: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/SD-Cross-Revealed-in-Tree-Trunk-134433868.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/tree-cross-image-church.html

 

December

 Title: Tsuami-Shaped Clouds
 Resemblance: Tsunami Waves
 Extractionist: Town Residents
 Matrix: Clouds
 Location: Birmingham, Alabama
 Date: 16 Dec 2011
 Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/20/144010831/cool-video-massive-cloud-waves-roll-over-alabama