From Bob Eckstein’s The Bob substack on 1/7/23, this delightful troupe of dancing Santas, created for the monthly comedy newspaper the Funny Times to sell on t-shirts (this year’s offer came to me by e-mail yesterday:
(bob’s text) Funny Times is getting into the Holiday groove with my Dancing Santas. The perfect Secret Santa gift can be found here.
(My 9/29/23 posting “Resist clever marketing” has a section about the Funny Times monthly newspaper)
At first, I thought the Santas were doing semaphore signals (without flags, which function merely to make the signals clear from a distance) — but as semaphore signals, this would be the most unpromising:
R– K or 0 (zero) — W or Z — U
Rotten Kids Want U? Ravens, Kangaroos, Weasels / Zebus, and Unicorns? I don’t think so.
So they are just dancing Santas, conveying only joy — in dance moves (note the motion lines), not semaphore signals.
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