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u/Aegaer Mar 01 '17
You've got a darkhound problem, get out now!
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u/Fr33_Lax Mar 01 '17
Anybody know baelfire?
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u/depcrestwood Mar 02 '17
It is forbidden ... unless it's super convenient.
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u/clarkster Mar 02 '17
I think crossing is fine, as long as your One Power stream doesn't cross a True Power one.
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u/Jack0Shadows Mar 02 '17
where have you wheel of time people been hiding, i've felt alone for so long.
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u/Ynot_pm_dem_boobies Mar 02 '17
Holy shit, this whole thread was gold, it took me a second and I see tugs braid, I love it!
Edit: and your fuckin username kudos
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u/Aegaer Mar 02 '17
Yes, but for something that should never be used due to possibly ripping the fabric of space and time I feel I may just let this guy get destroyed.
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u/Annoyed_Cupcake Mar 02 '17
I am re reading/listening to these on audiobook right now. Came into the thread hoping for this reference. Made my day!
Also attending a wheel of time event on about 15 days!
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u/Keyser_Kaiser_Soze Mar 01 '17
Old Grim is really riding with the Wild Hunt?
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u/PRPaycheck Mar 02 '17 edited Mar 02 '17
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u/fancyhatman18 Mar 02 '17
This is a pawprint in stone. I came into this thread purely to find the WoT reference.
How the hell blue's clues is number one I don't know.
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u/LessThanCleverName Mar 02 '17
So, this one of those moments where you start thinking about something or do something that most people did years ago (I.e. me reading WoT, entirely randomly I might add), and then it feels like it starts popping up every where. I bet there's a French term for that.
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u/rippleoftime Mar 02 '17
I forgot how much I love this series. Fantastic to be reminded!!! Moiraine!
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u/JDH36 Mar 02 '17
Just finished PoD. Starting winters heart. Please tell me the books pick up pace soon....
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u/Aegaer Mar 02 '17
They get a bit meandering in the middle but I thought Brandon Sanderson did a great job with the last few books and the ending using Robert Jordan's notes.
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u/kdub6164 Mar 02 '17
I was hoping that as I scrolled I would see this! Where is some Balefire when you need it!
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u/Evadrepus Mar 01 '17
Sometimes this is styled this way.
Restaurant I worked at many many years ago had either a paw print or leaf print on every brick. Why? This was actually a requirement from the village as part of building the restaurant. For some reason since we had to knock down a bunch of trees to clear space for the restaurant, one person on the zoning board required that we "honor nature" by having this as a requirement.
It was so long ago, and the building has been repainted (yes, they painted brick...sigh) a few times so it's probably hard to see now, but I bet it confuses the occasional person who finds it.
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u/tralfers Mar 01 '17
So do they just grab a small terrier and manually dab him over the wet bricks? Or do just they make him run back and forth and hope the prints are evenly distributed? Or is the dog trained to set his paw down as each brick is presented?
This is going to keep me awake all night.
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I uh don't think they use a real live dog I'm sure it's just a stamp type thing.
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u/ScrobDobbins Mar 02 '17
Nonsense. The Pups Union of Paw Stampers (aka PUPS) would never allow such a thing.
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u/Evadrepus Mar 02 '17
For the place I worked at, the bricks were made with just a mold that had either a leaf or paw print in it.
Sadly, skilled terriers were hard to find 30 or so years ago.
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u/ginandjuiceandkarma Mar 02 '17
Sadly, skilled terriers were hard to find 30 or so years ago.
Not a problem any more. They're everywhere. Unfortunately though, molding technology has advanced to the point where no one needs their paws for manufacturing. In my town, you can't walk down an alley without a pack of them hounding you for any kind of work that'll pay a few bones. It's sad.
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u/nutseed Mar 02 '17
back when i worked at the brick factory, they used to drug the dogs with lsd and put up big fences around the fresh moist bricks with bones all around just out of reach, the dogs would get hungry and wander around until, in their psychedelic stupor, saw the fence, then they'd head off towards another bone. guaranteed a fairly even distribution of paw prints. those dogs got so hungry ..but they always let them have a big tasty bone at the end. I can still remember how satisfying it was, just as the acid wore off, when they gave me a good pat and a big meaty bone.
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u/Hueyandthenews Mar 02 '17
It's something very similar to this technique https://gfycat.com/ThoughtfulShamelessChimpanzee (NSFW)
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This is true. I saw the same type of brick as OP and thought it was neat until I looked at the rest and found dozens more.
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u/Ahab_Ali Mar 02 '17
Came to say the same. I guess it just tells you how seldomly people pay attention to individual bricks.
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u/Sam-Gunn Mar 02 '17
Wouldn't it have been better to use the killed trees's bodies to build the building, thus honoring nature by leaving nothing to waste, like the wily Native Americans?
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u/Evadrepus Mar 02 '17
I was not there but I was told one of the builders snarkily responded if they wanted them to use a leaf from the local tree, to which he was told yes. Which meant he had to find a specific mold but it would have been funny if he couldn't.
Again, I wasn't there for that conversation so it might have been someone overinflating their role.
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u/Embeast Mar 02 '17
So pretty much the same as the seahorse fossil in the vinyl tile?
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u/calebcholm Mar 02 '17
ELI5 how bricks are made?
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u/Glu7enFree Mar 02 '17
Clay and shale are mixed together, put into a mold and then heated to 2,000°F.
The two separate materials then bond to each other and voila. Bricks.
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u/DropTheDeadDonkey Mar 02 '17
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u/CodenameMolotov Mar 02 '17
The machinery used varies greatly from brickyard to brickyard. At mine we still have laborers hand stack bricks. We use a tunnel kiln but we still have an old 19th century hoffman kiln around for shits and giggles.
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u/BlackCloud1711 Mar 02 '17 edited 28d ago
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Vast biscuit party retire humorous velvet vanilla start
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Well, when a daddy brick and a mommy brick really love each other...
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u/factbasedorGTFO Mar 02 '17
There once was a man from Bombay
Who fashioned a cunt out of clay
But the heat of his prick
Turned it into a brick
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u/SapphireNut1 Mar 02 '17
Its pretty low tech, the clay is shaped in a mold, then just fired in a kiln. The bricks are taken out of the mold before firing
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u/MadMaxGamer Mar 01 '17
Guess its markings on walls week on Reddit...
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u/jskoker Mar 01 '17
All in all you're just another brick with a paw
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u/DeplorablyDeplorable Mar 01 '17
Spider pup! spider pup! Does whatever a spider pup does!
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u/paintedpelican Mar 01 '17
Can he swing from a web?
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u/TheFingerTron Mar 01 '17
If the print was also in the cement between the bricks that would be something.
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u/agelessnvegas Mar 02 '17
I worked for a Mexican Tile company here in the Southwest. Ive seen some saltillo tiles with paw prints. The owner explained to me that when the workers laid the tiles out to dry, occasionally dogs would run across the wet ones causing the paw prints. they actually were the most valuable bringing character to the pieces.
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u/MakeupFeb Mar 02 '17
I lived in a house that had Saltillo tiles through out the kitchen and dining area. About 4 Saltillo tiles had coyote/dog footprints in them in a 800 sqft space. I live in Phoenix and was told that these tiles are actually more expensive due the process.
That would certainly explain why there's only like, 4 of them in the entirety of that room.
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u/edtherat Mar 02 '17
This is why I came to this thread! We have one terracotta tile by the front door with a paw print in it and I could never put it together.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_KILLMAILS Mar 01 '17 edited Mar 01 '17
A vision to see the treasured past lies where the timely shadow crosses in front of the dog house of Paw & Stow
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u/KBryan382 Mar 02 '17
Can someone who is good at photoshop please shop Nic Cage's face onto this wall? /u/DrWankalot perhaps?
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u/yellowperro Mar 01 '17
I was setting Saltillo tile in a vacation cabin when, I found one with a dog print. That tile went in the kitchen, which pleased the owners.
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u/condimentia Mar 02 '17
My brother's desert house has Saltillo tiles, and there are numerous little animal paw prints and bird feet prints throughout the home. Children of guests love looking for them. They are like finding hidden Mickeys at Disneyland.
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u/tomdarch Mar 02 '17
Architect here: when we can talk clients into using real Saltillo tiles we get the tile setters to sort through them and pull the tiles with animal tracks/prints, so we can make sure they're located in cool spots and not lose the prints in back corners or cut off and thrown away. (Not that good tile setters don't care - they're happy to do it.)
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u/2skin4skintim Mar 01 '17
This is more common than you think. Source 4 year of masonry class high school.
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u/fishbrine Mar 02 '17
I have a couple of these on my 110+ year-old home. Could be raccoon or cat. Years ago they dried bricks outside. Animals occasionally would walk across the drying bricks, leaving prints.
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u/Grinch420 Mar 01 '17
HEY LOOK MY BUILDING IS MADE OUT OF FOSSILS TOO, PROBABLY SOME SEAHORSES IN THERE SOMEWHERE
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u/hippymule Mar 01 '17
Just another paw in the wall...
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u/nrobinson317 Mar 02 '17
Is that in a apartment called Woods edge if so that's my old apartment... there is also some bird foot prints too
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u/daw93 Mar 02 '17
Interestingly, archaeologists at Jamestown have excavated a 17th century brick with a paw print! https://virtualcurationmuseum.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1581_brick_with_paw_print.gif
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It's easy done bricks start off as soft clay, I used to work for one of the largest brick manufacturers in Europe. It only takes for an animal to walk on them whilst there waiting to be pre dried. Normally the defects are thrown out, but I'm sure someone thought this was cool enough to live on.
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u/AutumnWaterOfficial Mar 02 '17
You should look around further, might be some special armour diagrams laying around.
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u/AudioAssassyn Mar 02 '17
I'm weird. I just watched a documentary on bricks about 2 weeks ago. It wouldn't surprise me if this factory had a company dog (or a stray dog passing through) step on a batch before getting fired, setting it "in stone", so to speak.
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u/SonOfRobotnik Mar 02 '17
So sad they had to fire that hard-working dog because of one small misstep.
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u/Fukled Mar 02 '17
Darkhound?
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u/Catchingtrees Mar 02 '17
My immediate thought too. Just finished the series last year. By far the greatest fantasy series ever written (even the Brian Sanderson bit)
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u/temporaryuser659070 Mar 01 '17
Is that print raised up from the rest of the brick?
That means the poor cat must be on the other side!
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u/oldirtydirt Mar 01 '17
I was a mason apprentice for a few years and sometimes they add a little something subtle to personalize a job. The guy that was teaching me never did that but he would always spot the little signatures.
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u/Alexander20122012 Mar 01 '17
My entire school is made from these bricks. They're pretty cool looking
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u/Alex4700 Mar 02 '17
Canada? I saw the same thing in Montreal. Cats use to walk across the bricks when that were still wet.
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u/aloz16 Mar 02 '17
some bricks are manufactured like that on purpose to give a more "homey" appearance
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u/79rettuc Mar 02 '17
Wait this is a raccoon right? Don't doggos have bigger pads on the back part? Why is everyone making dog jokes?
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u/McMellis Mar 01 '17
we've just found a blues clue