Before getting to today's subject, I'll provide links on two other matters. (Sub Pub covers anything of interest to members of the Substack community, whether fun, serious, or practical.)
This Twitter thread includes examples of newsletters that took the dare, plus an invite to the Discord server for Substack writers where the dare began.
By embedding the tweet above, I too have met the challenge. (Cheating, you say? A violation of the spirit of the dare? I am offended. A duel with snakes at dawn!)
So the question is: How might you put the rhyming snake-armed guy in your newsletter?1 🤔
[Example: pigeon, egg, hoot, waddle, flock. Anywhere on the page, whether in one paragraph or scattered. More than five is ok in my book (or rookery?).]
You included the man with arms like a snake
And yet you did not, of this dare, fully partake
This post does not fill me with joy,
Try again with a snakeman, not a snakeboy.
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The snake man rhymes;
The church bell chimes.
From here to Seattle
Hush falls on the crowd
Then someone shouts loud
"IT'S A RAP BATTLE!!"
Paging Substack support, we need "Preserve whitespace" in comments, please. 🙏
The tense scene has
One missing component
Who will serve as
The snake man's opponent?
A battle you say? I must intercede,
You want an opponent but what is his breed?
Please I must ask, or maybe I plead
Name the next dare we shall share in our screed….
Snakes are cousins of dinosaurs
Which are ancestors of birds
Next week a Substack post of yours
Should have five avian words.
[Example: pigeon, egg, hoot, waddle, flock. Anywhere on the page, whether in one paragraph or scattered. More than five is ok in my book (or rookery?).]