This may be the funniest thing I’ve seen all month. (Granted, it is June 1 now over here, so June is only nine hours old.) I give you the JC Penney Hitler tea kettle.
Take a look at that photo and tell me you don’t think of Hitler right off the bat. Tell me! The sold out from Penney’s website at US$40 and are now topping $200 on eBay. The linked story says $199, but I’m sure I’ve read elsewhere that bidding has hit $235. I’ve also read a billboard in Los Angeles that featured it had to be taken down after protests.
Quote: "The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors and campaigns against anti-Semitism, told the website: ‘We take JC Penney at their word that any resemblance to the Nazi dictator was completely unintended’.”
I bet never in the ADL’s wildest imagination did they ever think they’d be writing those words.
We really need an animated brick-throwing smiley here…
We were just discussing this very subject at dinner tonight. The family agreed that if you remove/obscure the handle that looks sorta like a hairdo comb over, then it’s just a teapot.
Try it - just scroll the top half of the handle off your screen and all you got is a teapot. Yep.
Now please, do commence with the bad pun-ditry. The tea party needs some help after all that IRS nonsense…
At first I didn’t see it. But after looking several times the figure of a head with some hair, nose, and stash is recognizable. I still don’t see Hitler. But since people say it’s him then I can’t disagree. The resemblance is like a caricature that someone drew. Just the basic lines of the person.
