SEC Fruit Loop in a World of Cheerios Brings Jokes to Twitter

A dinosaur, a lawyer, and an accountant walked into a government office in Texas.

It’s not the beginning of a joke. It was just Halloween in 2017 at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth Regional Office led by Director Shamoil Shipchandler, whose sense of humor extends from the workplace to Twitter, where his near-daily comic musings have attracted a wide online following.

Shipchandler, who has received a top Justice Department award for his work as a government lawyer, celebrated the holiday by donning an inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex costume as he roamed the office’s corridors. “Just an ordinary day,” except ...