Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Hey!  That’s it!  It’s the Christmas Season and no one can be anything but totally grateful for virtually everything at this time of year, right? So to get to it, today I will say that I am so grateful for:

1. For my co-hostinae and all of the Readers and Writers (of Posts) that, each weekend, come here and write stuff and share stuff (they can be excused for this, as they are mostly…girls around here), in exchange for my behaving (for the most part)  I am given free reign for my indulgences and  dalliances and assorted sillinesses that I offer as my contribution here (each week),
3. nothing for number two ( at this point our 2 identified scottian hostys just sat up a little straighter in their seats…alert now, confident that they know the ways of this one…)
4. to the Wakefield Doctrine… I would go into a long explication of how it’s remarkable that something like the Doctrine can have such a significant effect as to cause me to feel grateful, especially seeing how I would appear to be the author (though, not quite)
5. fun with words such as the ‘explication’ usage in #4 (and to reiterate Item 1, I clearly enjoy the affectionate tolerance of my fellow… fellette lll co-host(s)…nah, that’s not quite the right word… I know, lets make up a word!!  (yeah!! about frickin time I found something to write about this week that isn’t so warm and fuzzy and touchy-feely and all (not that there’ s any wrong with being touchy feely and sensitive and caring and kind… )
6. ok  I’m invoking Rule 7.3 (subchapter 5) of the Secret Book of Rules…  (and claiming the position of Lord of Misrule for this year’s Christmas Season. here is my reference)
7. (..Rule 7.3 continued) ‘If a host or a writer is willing to provide the Award and succeeds in gaining the approval of one, ‘Considerer’, (such approval and inferred authorization may be produced on a contra-chronological basis), such Contest, may be conducted. All Rules and Awards are  still subject to the final approval, authorization and ‘yeah, what harm can he cause with his little contest?’ of all concerned.¹
8. (1) in conjunction with subchapter 5 of the aforementioned  Rule
9. OK enough padding of the list: Here is the Contest:  Award for the ‘Best Collective Noun’ for a group of blog writers who participate in a blog hop that is all about sharing gratitude and other girlie and non-girlie sentiment and higher level emotional qualities,
10. Rules: Word on the street is that we are on hiatus for a couple of fortnights. The ‘Best Collective Noun Contest’ begins this weekend and ends the week after the break. All entries will be Posted on Sunday of the first week we are back and the Winner will be announced the week thereafter. The Prize will be an Official Wakefield Doctrine docTee* awarded to the person who comes up with the Best TToT Collective Noun as measured by the most Votes. (Voting is open to all hosts, Contributors, Readers, Passerbys and Rich Rumple**)

It might help to see the thing in context.  “Lisa!!  hey doll, I heard those people at the blog hop is having a Contest to name themselves are you going to enter?  Yeah me too, what a ___ they are”

(… Did I mention multiple entries are permitted?)

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Let the Contest Begin!  All entries will be attributed to Contestents (although it is possible for non-Contestents to contribute Entries and Assign them to anyone they choose.) We will continue in tomorrow’s Post. Enter Soon and Enter Often!!

zoe:  ‘a collective of bloggers’

Lizzi: ‘an Outwriting of bloggers’  and  ‘a braveness of bloggers’

Denise:   ‘a marceau of bloggers’

Mrs. ‘Town’:  ‘a Hump of bloggers’*

Mrs. Always Random:  ‘a rhapsody of bloggers’  and   ‘a chuffed of bloggers’

Stephanie:  ‘a groggers of bloggers’  (??!) (lol  like the sound of that one…)

Lizzy  (from Muddle-Headed Mamma):  the evocative    ‘a Harem of Happy-makers’   (yeah I agree the bold-facing of the one word, does sorta make it ‘pop’)  lol

Sandy:   ‘a mosaic of bloggers’   (nice… )

the progenitor roger: ‘A postendium of bloggers’   (a certain classical feel… interesting)

Kristi:  ‘a chatter of bloggers’  the competition is so heating up now!

Michelle:  ‘a chorus of bloggers’

zoe:  (will combine all later today in TToT.5) we have:   ‘a Possegrat of bloggers’
‘a Graterie of bloggers’
‘a Congregrat of bloggers

Denise:  ‘Purveyors of Perspicacity’

 

(“…on this, the final day of play, these writers are showing what makes them the world class competitors that they are… relaxed and almost over-confident yesterday,  everyone’s bringing out their  ‘A Game’ )

Keep ’em coming!

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* for immediate delivery it may need to be whichever docTee’s I have left from the last print run, the Winner will be given the choice to wait for the next printing in order to get the docTee that is specific to their personality type

** with a note from Kristi

(no, L.  this is not my response to the the previous contest!  lol)