• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The funny thing is that some medieval bricklayer made a conscious choice here, he could have put that brick paw-print down and made a flawless floor. Now, here we are getting a chuckle out of some unknown bricklayer’s little gag centuries later.

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      1 year ago

      I’m also wondering if those are not fake prints. They look pretty deep. I don’t think a cat walking on drying bricks would leave such deep marks.

      To me they look like easter eggs left by the brick layer.

  • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I live in a house build in the late 1800s. There are names and dates carved into the brick facade from 70 years ago. I think that is kinda cool.

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    1 year ago

    Possibly whittled out of the brick long after installation, by a bored funster, using a crude round-tipped tool ?