Yeah, traffic signs in midtown are a mess. They seem to be designed by people who want to seem clever and I can't quite understand how somebody with that inclination gets into a traffic engineer job. The signs that tell you you aren't allowed to make turns off of certain crosstown streets in between Lexington and 6th (or whatever the two delimiting Avenues are) are a prime example. But this Times Square Shuffle business seems like a new low.

Is that like the Super Bowl Shuffle?

I love that sign! More poetry in public signage, I say.

Bush league, Matt. You really should have gone for the "Ickey Shuffle" reference.

For a period of time, he was selling Omaha Steaks as a door to door salesman doing the Ickey Shuffle as part of his sales pitch.

It's even sadder when you misread it as "Obama Steaks" on the first pass.

They seem to be designed by people who want to seem clever and I can't quite understand how somebody with that inclination gets into a traffic engineer job.

However, DON'T EVEN THINK OF PARKING HERE is a really, really great sign.

Aw, c'mon, it makes you wanna dance, don't it? If you're blue and you dono where to go to why don't you do the Times Square Shuffle....

I believe the Times Square Shuffle was the dance that Giuliani performed in drag.

I'm kind of puzzled that you have any outrage available for things that are inconvenient to people who drive in Manhattan. Isn't the whole point that that's a bad idea?

That's not a reason to make it ridiculous. I'm all for congestion pricing -- less for paying people in clown suits to pour vats of oatmeal on randomly selected cars. This sign seems to be more similar to the latter than the former.

Don't tempt me like that. As a pedestrian and only occasional driver, I favor public polices towards cars that have the benefit of providing me with entertainment.

I could get behind the clowns tormenting drivers with oatmeal.

A group of oatmeal eating clowns killed my family in a car accident.

LB has hit upon a much better plan for reducing Manhattan traffic than anything Bloomberg's proposed.

Also, full employment for clowns! Awesome.

(Not to mention the state subsidy for our beleaguered oatmeal industry.)

2,3: I think it's far more similar to the Wall Street Shuffle.

JM, how come you haven't updated your blog in forever?

I got bored with it, busy, distracted. It's also weird to write on my own blog when the only people who read it hang out here...

19:

bc she hasnt bought any new shoes.

19 -- She's been busy posting at Hating on Charles Bird.

22.---No, the original site is completely defunct, and I've almost totally abandoned the second site.

(I know, just joshing.)

Besides, NYCers *like* having signs that no one else understands.

25: But else is the key bit there.