"Pixel" (Improbcat)
10/28/2015 at 23:28 • Filed to: None
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"Pixel" (Improbcat)
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So when I tore out the trashed wood floor in my upstairs hallway(and the even more trashed linoleum under it), I found this hidden hole in the floor.
This was an old vent to allow heat from the kitchen to get upstairs before the house had steam radiators(the house was built before 1895). Now it is hidden by sheetrock in the kitchen, and was hidden by flooring in the hall.
While working on other renovation projects that needed finishing before replacing the hall floor I pondered what to do with this space. And finally, the perfect idea came to me.
Step 1) Buy teddy bear at Savers.
Step 2) Make the bear a sign.
Step 3) Put the bear and his sign in a bag.
Step 4) Stuff the bear in the weird hole in the floor.
Step 5) Install a quality hardwood floor in the hall, completely hiding the existence of the hole.
Step 6) Let some future person find the bear, and be deeply weirded out. Given that the floor I pulled up was ~60 years old, there is good odds that I’m trolling someone who hasn’t even been born yet.
davedave1111
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:30 |
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Oh yes.
Shoop
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:33 |
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I wonder how often this happened on ancient history
Jared Glentz
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:34 |
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amature...... i would have got a copy of the first superman comic and put it in there.....now THAT would be trollin!
shop-teacher
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:35 |
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This is AWESOME!!!!!! I’ve already gutted and remodeled the second floor of my house, and in that I missed a lot of opportunities to troll the future. I will find a way to do that somewhere else in this house though.
Agrajag
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:37 |
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Brilliant.
Your boy, BJR
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:39 |
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Holy shit! Hahahahaha
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Pixel
> Jared Glentz
10/28/2015 at 23:44 |
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Don’t have a spare $3.2 million hanging around.
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Jared Glentz
> Pixel
10/28/2015 at 23:57 |
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a copy AS IN A FAKE
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Pixel
> Jared Glentz
10/29/2015 at 00:02 |
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Yeah, but that is just being mean, which isn’t what I was going for.
Complete bafflement and inability to figure out what the hell i going on is more what I aim for.
smobgirl
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 00:27 |
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I love it. And your first photo actually ties into something else I'd been randomly researching lately - I had no idea, but linoleum was invented in 1860. Despite all of the old buildings I've encountered for work, I had no idea it was such a popular floor covering before 1900.
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Pixel
> smobgirl
10/29/2015 at 09:54 |
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There is a surprising amount of it in my house from way back.
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smobgirl
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 10:00 |
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That’s pretty neat - thanks for the pic! I think my bedroom here might’ve had vinyl tile in the 70s but I think my house was actually too poor for early linoleum. Funny how things change.
Azrek
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 14:55 |
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I say you up the game...
$kaycog
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:00 |
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I like the way you think!
FKA-RacecaR
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:11 |
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Should have pulled its eyes off first.
Funktheduck
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:12 |
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This is awesome.
Chariotoflove
> Shoop
10/29/2015 at 15:27 |
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That is a scary thought.
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Chariotoflove
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:29 |
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I bow deeply in admiration before your twistedness.
zeontestpilot
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:36 |
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This is genius.
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Shoop
> Chariotoflove
10/29/2015 at 15:38 |
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Hahaha I bet those fuckers will think this circle of stones was a calender or something hahaha
ttyymmnn
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:38 |
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You should have named the bear Jimmy Hoffa.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:47 |
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If you have only zipped ties his arms behind his back and duct taped over his mouth.
Ike
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 15:48 |
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I pulled weird wall paper off my bath room in my old house, and in front of the toilet the wall had a eye balls and text that read “I have been watching you poop” I got a laugh out of that
Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> Shoop
10/29/2015 at 15:59 |
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The Pyramids.
gizmo-ms3
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 16:00 |
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My house was built in 1909. When I was stripping several times painted over wallpaper I found
“TO HELL WITH HITLER
Paper Hanger> Heverling Feb, 21 1942”
Written in pencil on the bare horsehair plaster wall.
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Chariotoflove
> Shoop
10/29/2015 at 16:04 |
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I took archaeology courses in college, and two of my siblings have lived at dig sites. I am now wondering how much of what we think we figured out was really bastards like Pixel fucking with us. In fact, isn’t that what the Shroud of Turin turned out to be?
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Pixel
> gizmo-ms3
10/29/2015 at 16:07 |
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That is amazing!
450X_FTW
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 16:09 |
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When we redid our bedroom with hardwood floors I left this note on the subfloor in case anyone were to ever destroy our hard work.
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gizmo-ms3
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 16:11 |
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I also found “This house was papered for the first time by C.E. Hollinger in March 1909.” when stripping painted over wallpaper in another room. We were told our house was built in 1917 when we bought it.
TheJMan92
> Pixel
10/29/2015 at 17:25 |
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This is amazing, well done!