Timericks from stories by Ellen Gamerman, Mike Cherney, and Jason Zinoman.

Tim Torkildson. Creator of the 'timerick.'  Awarded 'Ninnyhammer of the Year.' 1989.

When Your Best Friend in Quarantine Is a Squirrel, You May Be Going Nuts.

@EllenGamerman

I do not care for squirrels at all/in summer, winter, spring, or fall/Their antics leave me cold and bored/They do not strike a happy chord/They chew my garden up until/there ain't a single daffodil/The only way I'd love 'em true/is in a pot of Brunswick stew.

Australia Is Being Cyberattacked by State Actor, Prime Minister Says.


Crikey, those hackers are smart/They're taking the country apart/Is Putin to blame/or is it a game/that Beijing is willing to start?



How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality
@zinoman


Remember Sennett's Keystone Kops/and their very brutal ops/Wielding nightsticks right and left/Comic's heads they deftly cleft/In those silent days of yore/they beat Fatty, Chaplin, sore/Grandpa laughed and Grandma grinned/Everyone was more thick-skinned.