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I have to think it’s fake. I wouldn’t pay $20 for it, but I bet someone will. There are no bids as I write this…
… but I have to say. The toast? It’s Wonder Bread. Too funny.
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November 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I think it’s actually John McCain wearing headphones.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
In the words of my German professor: Ah, Wonder Bread…it’s a wonder it’s a bread! Okay, I’m done. I now return you to your regularly scheduled pareidolic ruminations.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Amazing what you can do with a little greed and a blowtorch huh?
November 8th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Obama? It doesn’t look like him at all! I know it looks like someone, but I just can’t put my finger on who.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
That is so the baker from the local bakery in my childhood town, I always wondered what became of him, heard he became a toastmaster….
November 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
It looks more like Charlie Crews from the show Life.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I thought McCain was toast.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Princess Leia Organa Solo of Alderaan
November 8th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I see it as a woman with a somewhat odd hairstyle.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
That looks like it could be just about any man’s face.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Maybe if Obama would spend his time doing more impressive things than burning his face onto toast more people would believe he existed.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
considering the way some of his supporters worship him we’re bound to see more of this.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Looks like Lavoisier to me. I see that 17th to 18th century sort of wig on the face.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Looks like Asimov.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
might be the queen mother?
November 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Is it princes Charles young?
November 8th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I think it looks like Hal Bidlack dressed as Hamilton.
Either that, or it’s Christopher Eccelston wearing headphones.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
It’s fake. Amusing, though.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Oh my god, I remember where Iast saw him. He was holding a rifle on the wall behind the grassy knoll!
November 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Off topic but is Dr. Plait planning to weigh in on the rumor of anti-vaxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being appointed to the post of administrator of the EPA? The folks over at scienceblogs are up in arms over this rumor.
November 8th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I see a human face for sure, but I think it’s a stretch to say it’s Obama. There are some 6.5 billion other people it could be! Wish you leave comments on a ebay auction; if you could probably half the stuff on there wouldn’t sell!
November 8th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
18th century gentleman in formal wig. Clearly.
November 8th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Obama?! Even a cyberman looks more alike to that toaster guy than Obama!
November 8th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
This definitely reminds me of some 50-60’s era serial killer, and a little of Lee Harvey Oswald.
November 8th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Does anyone else see what I see??? It’s kind of spooky, I know, but I swear, if you look closely, that’s French Toast.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Not Obama, definitely Princess Leia
November 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
A person can make toaster art by careful butter placement. The places with less butter get darker when they cook.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Why would it be a fake? It is quite easy to make pictures on toast by placing pieces of tin foil on it and then toasting it in an oven.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Oh that’s it! It looks like Tchaikovsky’s cousin/gay lover, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
That might be it, Zar, but I suspect it was “fun with a blowtorch” instead!
Funny!
Rich in Charlottesville
November 8th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Let’s see!
1 metal template + loaf of bread + blow torch = mass produced Obama toast with no butter added.
Selling for 20 bucks a slice.
Why didn’t I think of that!
November 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
It looks like Alfred E. Neuman to me.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
If improvements in our standard of living were still allowed, this suggests a great new product–an imaging toaster. For starters it wouldn’t even have to be HD.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Definitely fake, I think it’s the same face as a stencil I’ve seen painted around my train station, supposed to be Obama, but yes, it’s very vague.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
By the way, coolest Obama portraits EVAR!
November 8th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
No, it’s the face on Mars, now with hair/earphone/whatever that may be !!!
November 9th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Speaking of toast art, have you seen the huge Mona Lisa toast replica made by an elderly Japanese man (follow the link in my name or google it)? I saw it on Japanese TV, and the creator showed how he made it by cutting out pieces of tin foil and placing on the toasts before toasting them in a toaster oven and assembling to the complete picture.
Maybe he’ll do Obama next…
November 9th, 2008 at 7:40 am
No, I think it’s actually Phil… with headphones… in the parlor.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:11 am
LOLOLOLOL!!!
November 9th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I don’t believe it! One person has, at the time writing this, bid $20 for it.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Looks more like Woody Guthrie to me. . . . . Maybe a young Neil Armstron.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Oops ARMSTRONG I mean.
November 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Geeze. You’d think it would have been whole wheat, at least.
Sorry, I just had to say it.
November 9th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Margaret Thatcher?
November 9th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
It’s Boooooosh, taunting us as he prepares to ride off into the sunset.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
It’s the robot guy from Queen’s “News of the World” album cover.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
The jugears are the surefire giveaway.
It’s The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, alright.
Already toast, and not yet in power.
Apt, somehow.
November 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
The 11th Doctor.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
It looks like George W. Bush, not Obama.
November 9th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Just like Obama himself, this is a fraud.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Actually, a hearty black bread would have been more approprate than wonder bread! and MUS beat me too it, my first thought was Leia!
November 10th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Looks more like Prince Charles.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Is this the whitebread obama with a suntan??
November 10th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Only difference is the toast is smarter.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Hmmm.
“Obama? It doesn’t look like him at all! I know it looks like someone, but I just can’t put my finger on who.”
Derek Jeter of the NY Yankees?
November 10th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hmmm.
“If improvements in our standard of living were still allowed, this suggests a great new product–an imaging toaster. For starters it wouldn’t even have to be HD.”
Or a food-based printer that could “print out” pancake batter or, better yet, jelly on toast.
“I’m feeling a little peckish. I’ll have Sir Issac Newton on toast!”
November 10th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Looks like Adric right before the ship exploded.
“Now I’ll never know if I was right.”
November 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Gandhi.
November 10th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
It would be harder to make toast art on dark bread, I bet. Less contrast.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
That’s obviously Princess Leia.
November 11th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Looks like a bagel to me.
November 11th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
[...] Obama’s intelligence is one that concertedly rejects the cult of the cowboy, one that disdains the notion of conviction as an unalloyed virtue. His retrospectively vindicated opposition to dumb war in the face of supposedly airtight evidence for launching it has proven a victory not just for Obama, but for the legitimacy of ambiguity itself as a space for positive thinking in the making of serious decisions by individuals and societies. With the discrediting of certitude undergirded by the hyperspecific comes the complementary embrace of an ineluctably abstract, indefinable hope—a hope we have espoused, often reluctantly, because the sober and steady hand of the man who has become its global symbol checks its pesky quixotism. [...]
November 12th, 2008 at 6:10 am
[...] O Vitor viu o Obama torrado aqui… [...]
November 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Looks more like Pee Wee Herman.
November 13th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Well, the bidding ends in under an hour and it’s up to $207.50.. hilarious.
February 4th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Looks like Sarah Palin
May 4th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
[...] Under ordinary circumstances, pareidolia provides a psychological explanation for many delusions based upon sense perception. For example, it explains many UFO sightings, as well as the hearing of sinister messages on records played backwards. Pareidolia explains Elvis, Bigfoot, and Loch Ness Monster sightings. It explains numerous religious apparitions and visions. And it explains why some people see a face or a building in a photograph of the Cydonia region of Mars. [...]
November 10th, 2009 at 10:03 am
It looks like Jason or Mike Myers.