It can be either a clever shorthand mutually understood by colleagues or, more cynically, a way to bamboozle outsiders, to make the simple seem more complex and mysterious the tongue-twisting equivalent of a secret handshake.

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You watch the guards giving their signs to each other, then you have to copy it in a funny and surreal secret-handshake dance-off.

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