Hitler look alikes

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House that looks like Hitler catches eye of Twitter users

The elderly owner of an end-of-terrace house in Swansea has been left bewildered by an internet joke that his house looks like Hitler.

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The house in Port Tenant, Swansea, that looks like Hitler Photo: ATHENA

By Richard Alleyne

6:00AM BST 30 Mar 2011
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Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed or shared the link to a photograph of the house after it was published on Twitter, the social networking site.

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 joke took off when it was tweeted by Jimmy Carr, the comedian, but the owner of the house in Port Tenant, Swansea, a man in his 70s, said he had never even heard of Twitter.

The tweet was first posted by Charli Dickenson, 22, a youth worker, who spotted the bizarre similarity as she drove past.

"I walk past the house all the time, but I had never noticed the Hitler likeness before," said Miss Dickenson. "But then, at the weekend, I was in the car with my boyfriend and we were stuck in traffic and I just said to him, 'That house looks like Hitler.' We both laughed. I took a picture and posted it on Twitter.
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