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provocative (prəˈvɒkətɪv)
adj
1. acting as a stimulus or incitement, esp to anger or sexual desire; provoking: a provocative look; a provocative remark.*
“…finally a word we can sink our teeth into!!!” (said nearly every scott, at one time or another). Find me another word that does more to generate images of lipstick and slinky dresses**, not that that’s what today’s Post is going to be about …much.
In the words of a clark, ‘yeah, no! but….‘ in the early days of this blog, we saw any number of occasions when, searching in earnest for an illustrative metaphor for one of the worldviews, or a fictional encounter between members of the three worldviews, meant to demonstrate how our worlds are experienced differently, we’ve been met with the response. ‘what?!! did you just say that scotts are predators??’ (yes)…. “I’m not sure that a photo of a cow is really such a nice way to begin a discussion of rogers, don’t your think you’re being a little offensive?” (no).
I’ll say this for certain, the behavioral metaphors that are associated with the three worldviews, are exaggerated and yet ring true, they are over-the-top examples of ways that people perceive the world and yet, when used as a predictor of future behavior, are uncannily accurate. And it’s fun. That’s the other thing that I can say for certain, all that is written in the Posts*** that collectively are the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is written with a sense of affection for each of the three personality types. And this should be anything but surprising, seeing how we all have the potential, the capacity, to experience the world as any of the three personality types do.
Of course, the way ‘provocative’ is manifested in each of the three worldviews is as different as…well, as the three worldviews. scotts come to mind first, as the definition that we used above, anger or sexual desire. rogers, not so much. clarks, oddly (lol, well, duh!) enough, clarks can be very provocative people, in a secret, roundabout way, of course.
Since I have a TToT Post to add to this, lets run out some favorite statements that help us appreciate today’s Word.
rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless
scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb and clarks are crazy
scotts get angry, clarks get mad and rogers get resentful
(stop me anytime, remember: ‘acting as a stimulus or incitement’!)
* courtesy of free dictionary.com
** at least for those of us blessed to live in the happy and peaceful land of Y Chromia! I assume the womenfolk, (to use the proper technical psycho-socio-cultural term for members of Gender X….), will find their mental drive-in movie playing a similar but different film (you ‘not-old people’, you have heard of drive-in theaters? please say ‘yes’)
*** those Posts that I wrote, which are not all the Posts in this blog.
TTOT
1 through 4: I am truly grateful for being a part of this TToT bloghop. (Increasingly as I experience the…er experience of participating in the A-t0-A Blog Challenge! Not that there are not very nice people and interesting bloggers and skilled writers among the 1893, 1723….1669 entrants. There are. But I appreciate more than ever the TTOT (not that I’m gonna take up needlepoint or watching the Lifetime Network or anything too girlistic)… I guess what I’m responding to is the sense of community that was our Ms Roger’s original goal for this here bloghop here.
5) I will have to invoke the SBoRs rule governing two part grat lists… work demands and sleep insists, leaving me with little time to do a proper List.
6) (not sure if I should classify this as ‘grateful for technology’ or ‘grateful for roadside cows’!)
7) I am beyond grateful for ‘the youtube’ as the endless source of referential material! I mean, it’s like a frickin combination ‘time machine’, ‘term paper writing service’ and high school reunion all rolled into one! (For example: I was researching tomorrow’s post and wanted to say something about the effect of the behavior of a scott (when the scott and a clark are hanging out) when a more dominant scott enters the social context… and so I went looking for an old Warner Brother’s cartoon… and, as Lizzi used to say, ‘Boom’! New Readers? in this clip both characters are scotts...
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10) you know it’s gonna be 1.3 of the Secret Book of Rules, right?
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Provocative! Great word ! despite the sexism …which was dare I say….Provocative! ? And last sentence #5….you’re a poet and didn’t even know it. …or maybe you did…
and you…are up way, way too early! lol
Going back to work today… have an 8 oclock appt. , chickens , doug… lots to do in the a.m. My best time of day… Up at five every day just about…
yeah… know the routine… I’ve been sleeping in of late, 5:30 but today it was 4:30 so I figured, what the hell! why not get back into the ‘running’ aka walk…stumble forward…jog…gasp for breathe…walk… get bored…walk…. me and Jim Fixx (hell he can run better than me and he’s been dead since 1984…lol) (lol at my comical comparison…not lol at Jim Fixx being dead and such, I’m sure his family misses him… I’d like to think, that at his funeral, like everyone had running shorts on and maybe…jogged through the cemetery …yeah, I should go take a shower.)
have fun at work
Too bad you already passed T. You could have done tangential clarks…lol! Im sure Jim Fixx’s family will miss it….hehehehheeeee
tangential clarks? why would you ever think, well, consider the idea at any rate, not that there’s anything wrong with considering non-complimentary ideas, as a matte of fact, I would argue that that is best approach to understanding any idea.
ya know?
…he said tangentially…
lol
you know, scotts are, of the three, the truly direct speakers… (scottian conversational style motto: “What? I need a noun. I get a verb. And you’re the object. What the hell else do you want? other than !!!!! and (*&&^%!!!)
…oh …yeah! sure, I was like totally mused-out on that bad boy! (I wish… though I liked the phrase ‘sleeps insists’ I must admit I did not even see the rhyme)
No longer an early bird. Just sipping coffee and reading. Anyway, you are doing a slam, bang job on this challenge. When I hear the words “come hither” from a screen siren, I think of provocative. And then there’s provoke – incite a riot. And I do remember drive-in movies. A whole nuther kind of provocative.
Thank you, Val!
… a Meatloaf song immediately popped into my mind! lol
I remember it being a big deal when our family would go to the sit-down movie theater, because we most commonly would go to the drive-in. The drive-ins always had double-features. The first show was for the kids. We watched while munching on popcorn, licorice ropes, and M&Ms. After the first movie, we got comfortable in the back part of the station wagon, and fell asleep as the boring movie for grown-ups started. Next thing I knew, we were back home and being carried into bed.
what an archtypical cultural experience!! we had a station wagon and your line about ‘back home and carried to bed’ totally encapsulates the experience.
very cool (and, and it was the one (and only) time it was permissible to go outside with your pajamas on!)
I know! Wearing pajamas in “public”! (no feet ones, ‘cuz then you’d be called a sissy lol)
yeah… they are now, I believe, considered formal business wear
Good post today. Finished, not finished. Conversational.
We still have a Drive-In movie theatre not too far from where I live. Matter of fact we almost went last weekend. Provocative is a great word!
I don’t think there are any left in our area… the last one ‘went adult’* in the 80’s and didn’t last long.
*what a mind-bending concept, no? 80 foot adult movies blasting out the ‘hello, the pizza you ordered is here’ to theater-goers and neighbors alike! lol
The drive-in was a lot of fun. We went a couple of times as a family complete with jammies and popcorn but we always had more fun when we went as teenagers! You think you know why we had more fun but you might be wrong! It was were we all hung out and it was very social. The movie was just a distraction to the conversations about what to do after the show!
the whole family in pajamas? damn! tres cool…. (though, when I was a kid, the simple fact of walking out to the car (to go to the drive-in) in pajamas was so exotic! (early 60s)