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Feeling nostalgic, and just reminded by LanX of the time of the year, here's an old obfu I wrote ten years ago for the 2002 cam.pm Christmas programming contest: 

            $_=                          q~v
          ZvZ&%('                      $&"'"&(
         &"&   $&"'  "&$Z$#$$$#$%$&  "'"&   (&#
          %$&"'"&#Z#$$    $#%#    %$%$%$%(%%%#
          %$%$%#Z"%*#$    %$%$    %$%(%%%#%$%$
         %#  Z"%,   ($%    $%    $%(   %%%#  %$
        %$%    #Z"   %*%"  %$  %$%$   %(%    %%#
       %$%$%#   Z#%%"#%#%$ %$ %$%$##&#%$   %$%$%#
      Z$     &""$%"&$%$%$%#%"%"&%%$%$%#Z%&%     &#
  %"'"'"'###%*'"'"'"ZT%?ZT%?ZS'>Zv~;s;\s;;g;$~=q~ZZZJ_
 #_ZH  /'\\ZG|#o  #o#|ZG|$    <%|ZH\\"  \\!_!_!/"  /ZG/
 )\\    ZF/+\\Z    E|-|ZE      |-|ZE|    -|ZF\\+    /ZG
 \\)/  ~;;@x=@,=  +map{$.=    $";;join  "",map(((  $.^=
  O)x(-33+ord)),/./g)}split+Z;$~=~s~\s~~g;;s;.;(rand)<
      .2     ?"o":$";egx for@;=(5x84)x30;map    {#
       system   $^O=~W?CLS :+ "clear";;;   ;print
        $_.    $/,   ,for  $_  -18?   @;:    ###
         ((  map{   $|=    1;    ;;;   join  ""
          ,map($|--?$"    x(-3    *11+ord):$_,
          /./g)}split+    Z,$~    ),@x);splice
         @;,   -$_,  2,pop@,;@;=(""  ,@;)   ;;;
          ;sleep!                      $%}+2..
            18#                          /-\

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Update 2021: changed egxfor to egx for to work with later version of Perl v5.32.

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