3206: Installation
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 Title text: Do YOU remember the skylight being this big? |
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Megan and Cueball are installing wall-to-wall carpeting (also known as fitted carpet), which usually runs from the inner edge of one wall to the inner edge of a facing wall. Somehow, they have managed to mistakenly start laying the carpet against the outer edge of the wall without noticing. Despite encountering unfinished and uneven surfaces, plants, rocks, and other obstructions, they have not been clued in to their error, and have simply continued laying it for an unknown distance. Presumably, they would continue doing so until they encountered the outer wall of another building. Alternatively, if they check whether the wall is actually the other end of their room, they may keep going even then. Provided they can overcome the various geographical obstacles they might encounter -- including oceans -- they could eventually reach the other wall of their building by circumnavigation. They may run into a more immediate problem that prevents either approach, though, as it appears their last roll of carpet is about to run out.
According to the title text they have failed to notice another rather large clue to their problem — that there is a big open sky above them. Instead, they have, rather improbably, interpreted this as an extremely large skylight — a window on the ceiling designed to add light to a space of a building.
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[Four side-by-side panels showing Megan and Cueball rolling carpet over rough, outdoors terrain]
[Panel one: Cueball is pushing a roll of carpet over rough terrain, including a small rock and plant. Megan is walking behind him, pulling a cart holding two more rolls of carpet.]
[Panel two: Now on a slight incline, Cueball and Megan continue rolling and pulling respectively. The roll of carpet is approximately half as big as before.]
[Panel three: Having gone over a medium-size rock, the carpet being pushed has run out, and Megan and Cueball are lifting a new roll off the cart. One remains.]
[Panel four: Megan and Cueball have stopped walking, and are now talking to each other.]
- Megan: You're sure we started installing the wall-to-wall carpet on the right side of the wall?
- Cueball: The other end of the room must be getting close by now.
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This is what hiking trails should BE! Explainyourself (talk) 02:47, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- no. it would be better with waterslides. (/j) --Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 03:19, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- Hiking trail pavement needs to be sturdy enough to withstand hikers stomping up and down. It also needs to help their hiking boots grip the trail, or at least not do worse at that than bare dirt would. I am not convinced that carpet fits either of those criteria. GreatWyrmGold (talk) 04:15, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- But now you can hike in your socks. 82.13.184.33 09:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thick, durable carpet. How hard could it be? R128 (talk) 14:10, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
I think this strip is a knowing reference to "outside the asylum", the inside-out home of Wonko the Sane in _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Outside_of_the_Asylum
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Wonko_the_Sane
Lproven (talk) 09:09, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- How do you reckon that? Other than the presence of a carpet, how does it uniquely reference Wonko's setup, as opposed to being a coincidence? Elizium23 (talk) 10:07, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- It doesn't say anything about uniquely referencing Wonko's setup – it's says it's a knowing reference. Treating the space outside the walls as the true contents of the walls themselves is what Wonko did, but obviously, that's not how walled enclosures work. They are carpeting the space outside the walls, apparently having been able to get confused about what the walls represent. Carpet isn't about wall-to-wall coverage per se – the walls aren't relevant, other than to describe the fact that the carpet covers the whole floor. Considering the walls as a way to delineate the exterior as the target for your interaction is what Wonko did, and is also what they are doing. It's not really something that anyone else does. Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 18:54, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
This invention would go really well with outdoor floor-to-ceiling windows. -flatdurian 138.75.249.122 11:54, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- Also with the manual heat pump 82.13.184.33 12:08, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
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