Challenges

For a while my best friend, Genna, issued me writing challenges to help keep me awake when I was working graveyards. The challenges were simple enough to begin with, but Genna got quite devious with them. I am still working on one that she issued three years ago. But I thought these were worth sharing.

Challenge: Write me an email (at least 4 lines long) without using the letter T on the topic of turtles.

You've asked for four lines on a Chelonian superorder crown group member. Biologically a member of such a class defies ordinary need for hired defense. Each successfully born and developed grown male and female carries a nearly impervious wrapper capable of shielding a living organism from undesired physically dangerous brushes. A Darwinian approach would perhaps label such a species as remarkable and well made in surviving perceived known or unknown arduousness in life. My belief is one of classic head nod. Such an animal is indeed very special, however by no random chance - by will and superior knowledge of our one and only superior God. Who else would encase an overgrown snail in an impermeable overgrown skull?

Challenge: A poem written about Charles Darwin's exploration of the Galapagos Islands. Written in haiku.

HMS Beagle
Finding Creation's center
In a tortoise shell

Challenge:  So, first, think of the alphabet. then assign a number to each letter. A=1, B=2 and so on. Your assignment is to think of 26 words, one starting with each letter of the alphabet. Easy enough, but here's the challenge. The number of letters in the word has to correspond with the number assigned to each letter. So the A word will have 1 letter. The B word will have 2, C word will have 3 and so on. 

I am more than willing to field any questions that may arise from this list. Almost all of them have their own listing in the OED and the rest are legitimate constructions based on the immutable laws of the English language.

a
by
cat
drum
eagle
fester
gestate
highland
ingenious
jaguarondi
katavothron
labyrinthine
misconjugated
nasopharyngeal
oxyphenbutazone
penitentiaryship
quadringentennial
radioimmunological
schematologetically
tetrahydrocannabinol
undistinguishableness
vernacularizationology

weltanschauungenologist

xenotransplantationology

yogibogeyboxicologistical

zeugmatographicologistical