Moore held one arm aloft in the familiar gladiator salute while Hurst was smothered with congratulations.
The last hurrah was typical Phelps: the menacing hoodied, headphoned entry followed by the almost inevitable golden outcome, a shared Olympic record and a familiar podium salute.
This message, the argument went, was right there in the Scout Oath and Law, the guiding principles that generations of boys have had to know by heart and regularly recite, raising their arms in that familiar three-fingered salute and promising to be (among many other things) "clean" and "morally straight".
On fan appreciation day, Feeney flashed the fans a familiar one-finger salute.
Familiar sketches were saluted like old friends.
As Bolt did his lap of honour he cocked his ear to his rapt audience, as if asking them to adorn his achievements with even greater majesty, before performing his now familiar arched-bow victory salute and bending down to kiss the finish line.
Araabmuzik took familiar beats — including his own for "Salute" by the Diplomats — and dismantled them, then improvised off the themes, playing furious fusillades of sharp drums, shrieks and all sorts of sounds programmed into the machines.
Mr. Valdés began the evening with a salute to Duke Ellington, threading one familiar theme into the next.
As he went through the newspaper, his eye fell on a familiar photograph — 3-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin.
Mr. Breivik, in his sprawling, hate-filled manifesto, defined what he believed to be the symbolism of his salute and sought to distance it from the more familiar, open-palmed fascist salute used by Adolf Hitler.
