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A TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE TO YOUR MOVING WALL OF SPIKES
The New Yorker
|February 17-24, 2025 (Double Issue)
Problem: Moving wall of spikes starts inching across room toward victim, stops midway; straining sounds.

• Cat toy stuck between moving wall and floor?
• Electric motor disconnected from solar panels?
Problem: Victim of aborted wall migration begins screaming that you are crazy, to let him out of there.
• Tell victim moving wall was a joke, offer to get him piece of chocolate cake, glass of milk.
Problem: Victim does not like chocolate cake or milk.
•Provide victim with any type of snack or beverage he wants (within reason).
•Re-start moving wall of spikes.
• Tell victim, via Spike-rophone, that maybe you are crazy, but now it's he who is going to die; laugh.
Problem: Moving wall of spikes completes migration across room, but victim is not impaled.
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