Saturday, October 3, 2020

Timericks from the News Today.

 




Advertisers are mindful of the nation’s mood, offering patriotism during wartime and nostalgia during recessions. Covid-19 offers a new challenge. The nation’s biggest brands are still searching for the right tone.  (WSJ)


Advertisers push RELIEF/as the nation faces grief/Next they advertise RELEASE/encouraging a bogus peace/RECOVERY is then proclaimed/with many brands too loudly named/Lastly, they must fill the gaps/as marketers confront RELAPSE.



After the kids go to bed, the grown-ups are drinking and smoking pot to distract themselves from the hellscape that is pandemic parenting. (NYT)


Parents boozing in the night/offers an instructive sight/Nurturing is now excuse/for caregivers to cut loose/Raising kids is just too tough/without an intermittent puff.


Trump’s coronavirus quarantine could mean more time for tweeting. (WaPo)


Is it fair or is it meet/that Trump may have more time to tweet?/His button punching's now a threat/If it increases, we'll regret/creation of the Twitterverse/as something that makes life adverse.





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