Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley

You can scorn my church and party; you may sneer at my physique -- but don't you dare say anything about my cloves or leek! It may be ...

Louie's Bar, Payne Avenue, was quite a classy joint; they didn't care how old you were if you could only point at the poison you w...

Paul Bunyan with Babe the blue ox strode over the bogs and the rocks, to slice up the trees as if they were cheese; but did not replant,...

I once knew a man from Nantucket who said "I just never can duck it; my hometown is noted for lim'ricks oft quoted that would m...

I'm soliciting ideas and suggestions for future limericks. If there is anything that especially bugs you, puzzles you, or enthralls yo...

Fresh produce is always a joy, whether jackfruit or baby bok choy. When prices are low I buy with gusto, to cook with the juice of the s...

Hey Madel Paddle! I saw that frog photo of diesel on FB; gads, he's growing so tall and handsome! I wouldn't recognize him. I'...

The butterfly is a reminder that ev'rything ought to be kinder. These pigments that float (and don't ever vote), keep us from go...

The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150,000-squar...

The critic likes to pick apart anything that shows some heart. When he's dissected, by and by, I hope he's sterilized with lye...