97 points

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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Wouldn’t he have needed to change the brick? If you flip it then it wouldn’t fit there any more since its shape is asymmetrical.

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Shhhh just let it ride

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2 points

Presumably he shaped the tile after it was fired? I assume.

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24 points

As a cat owner, this doesn’t even look like a real print. It’s too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.

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11 points

The car walked on the brick before it was burned (the brick).

Like when you put a fork in a cake to check if it’s done. The hole will be bigger when it’s heated afterwards.

I don’t think it’s a deliberate prank, just a not my job situation.

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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.

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Maybe they’re deep because of water erosion from rains over a thousand years, those bricks look pretty polished.

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11 points

I don’t think the bricks are that old. Maybe a few hundred years or so

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It’s possible. I have paw prints of varying size and pressure in the concrete around my house (thanks cat).

The ones from super wet concrete look almost like a duck/goblin footprint, the ones in drier screed look like those tiles, but much less deep.

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4 points

Also like, this looks like stone, not brick…

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Best run, there’s a very tiny darkhoundkitty on the loose.

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

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Wouldn’t it take 79 years to do that to brick, though? Someone would notice

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8 points

He covered it up with a Rita Hayworth poster.

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There’s a St. Peter’s in Wormleighton and a St. Mary’s in Priors Hardwick… I wonder which one they’re talking about.

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and no other prints around, so the cat came out and, of course, immediately went back in

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These would have been made, fired, and then brought inside. There’s probably more prints but they’re probably on the underside of the tile.

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Downer response: that’s not how tile production works

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to the ackchyuallies here: I know, but relax and enjoy the mental image of the fiction

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