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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 17, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Foundered in 1767 by a charwoman’s daughter, her first effort to spin the gold from the dross was met with skepticism. Which, in rural England in the mid-1700s, was not attitude anyone sought to elicit from Readers. With the help of a defrocked monk by the name of Percival (no, no relation to the other, equally clueless Percival), L.R. found her way down to the coast and settled in Manchester. Under an assumed name, total makeover and a renewed determination to, (paraphrasing a descendent, ‘not get fooled again‘), she continued her efforts to point others in a better direction.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. This week’s Six of the Week comes from Frank Hubney with his way-fun storyette, ‘Heart‘.

5) the Unicorn Challenge (ceayr and jenne‘s no-it-doesn’t-look-like-two-starfish-gettin’-frisky-lets-go-to-the-next-card) photo-prompt ‘hop. This week’s Pick of the ‘corn comes from Doug Jacquire with his ‘My Station is Here, After’.

6) We were spared excessive frozen water accumulation this week. But, as Mimi, (our senpai in all matters gratacious), would remind us, ‘Never mind that! Be thankful you have a glass’.

7) Speaking of graduate-level gratitudining… the photo at the top? Ayiiee! One of the two carrying beams of the bridge has broken. (Did someone just say, ‘High Risk Wooden Bridge Repair… ordeal!!!!” lol) stay tuned. Open to suggestions as to cool mods to make. (P has already suggested ‘Rope Bridge’ Will spare you the meme-level icon movie scenes. But, prob-not.)

8) something, something

9) continuing project at work, wading through uncertainty is such a gift, i.e. ‘It’s right there. You define the character of the future, not ‘them, it, or those’.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (’cause what good is it to be in a club/association/gathering/pack/herd/random-concurrence if’n some of the rules aren’t, like, hidden from view?)

music vids

(this one? ‘You’re welcome’)

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, self-development, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

QuintPrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 14, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick post. Saint V theme. Semi-reflective of the effect of the Wakefield Doctrine on it’s curator.

First the QuintPrint¹

“No, it’s ok. I’m a saint.”

St Valentines is the worst, most contrived and cynical, gyno-centric guy-bait(ing), toy-with-the-emotions-of-innocent-bystanders, holiday on the whole damn calendar. Of course we are all familiar with the origin of the holiday and the internet is positively turgid with countless blogs, and stories and articles that tell us all about Hallmark and the candy industry and the rest of the sordid tale of this day in February. I will not try to compete with these other more skilled and capable Commentators ( and -torinis), as I do not have the time or the ‘writing chops’ to do such a ripe topic justice. Instead, let me tell you about my most lasting memory of Valentines Day.

Third grade, parochial school (St. Imelda*) and a classroom of 25 students. The boys were required to wear blue shirts and blue ties with OLM printed on the front, fortunately ‘clip-on ties’ had been invented by this time, so easy-peasy; the girls wore the catholic school uniform, i.e. plaid skirts white shirt, socks. damn, little did I realize at that pre-pubescent time of my life how potent that little Roman Catholic Church fashion dictates would become for me and countless other men at a later stage of life. (In fact, I am feeling the tug on the cynical side of my writing-self, there is something about the whole, church-sexual-abuse-dress-the-children in outfits destined to become so hawt… lol sorry, again I lack the time or the writing skill to do justice to a topic like this… back to the story.)
So with much fanfare, Valentine’s Day arrives and we 9 year old boys and girls are told that in the afternoon, before the end of the school day, we would have time to deliver our Valentine cards to each other. ( The day before we spent ‘Art Period’ making little baskets out of construction paper and taping them to the front of our desks. These would serve as ‘mailboxes’ for the cards we would receive the next day).
The thing was, the horrible twist to this introduction to the world of love, relationships and rejection was that, the time when class stopped and we were allowed to get up and deliver our little cards was not the end of the school day! It was right after lunch… and it lasted 15 or 20 minutes…as in ‘ now return to your desks and we will continue with the afternoon’ classes’. To sit for 90 minutes staring at the contents of the container on the front of my desk… I will leave it to the Reader to decide the emotional landscape of that afternoon on a February 14th.

Anyone out there not comfortable with finishing the story, or satisfied with their conclusion of this little tale, write us a Comment! Regular Readers know that the rogers gave the biggest cards, the scotts received the most cards and the clarks delivered the most cards….secretly without the recipient ever knowing who the really fun card came from…

Now I better get back to work, before I get in trouble.

Now the refraction*

Let’s make this quick. (Yeah, like that’s ever been a problem**)

How efficacious is this here self-improvement tool, here? We wrote this, way back, in, like 2012. Told a story on our selfs. Am a clark. ok, with a significant secondary scottian aspect. Even still, given how the existential fear (and, we would maintain, the single most powerful ratio-emotional drive) is scrutiny. We read this post, even today and can’t help but say, ‘Damn!’

ok that’s all you get

[New Reader’s? while we all have but one predominant worldview, we have the potential of (a significant) secondary and tertiary aspects. They serve as … as the italics of life. Doctrinistically-speaking of course.]

1) next to Thanksgiving, this has gots to be the most reprinted of posts

* ha ha a little joke₂

2) don’t tell anyone, but it remains a constant source of frustration that my current writing style is so limited

** ba rum bump!

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: Personal, personality types, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 10, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Long considered the apex Grat-blog in the ‘sphere. Often imitated, the TToT is still the go-to for anyone needing a quick attitude adjustment.

1) Phyllis —————————————————————–↓

2) Una ———————↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) continued non-snowistic climate.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. (Week’s fave Six: ‘Entrée’)

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop (Doctrine Pick of the Week: ‘Now, that’s one hell of a development opportunity‘ )

7) writing and such

8) technology that allows a photo of the rather exceptional Sailor’s Warning sky at sunrise yesterday. The photo at the top of this post does not do justice to how red the sky was.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

Filed Under: Featured, Psychology, the Wakefield Doctrine Tagged With: personality types, relationships, self-improvement, the Wakefield Doctrine, Understanding Human Behavior

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of crib-sheets, borrowed notes and the mildest of workweek days.”

February 6, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Much to do today.

Fortunately, it is Tuesday (Tuesday’s motto: “Sure, why not? the Rest of the week is wide open. Be all you can be today and don’t worry ’bout nothin’)

Hey! Don’t forget them extra cool upper/lower ordinals (?) and, blockquotes for good measure.

This, of course, in response to Mimi and Denise’s comments.

“Yes, you can’t demo html code without it doing the effect, I’ve tried. Maybe if you post a picture of the code it would work.” (M.)

“That was fun (no, Denise, Monday morning (while leaving a comment) is not the time to figure out how to italicize words in the comment box).
I’ll meet everyone in the language lab a bit later! (D)

ok¹. errr ok₁

that should cover all the html that we ever use. now: lets see if’n ‘the Press allows us copy and paste them pyschoglyphics!

For us, once we were told the basic convention (of extra-cool word things) was: using ‘<‘ and ‘>” as brackets always negate the command, as in <something> Object word/phrase </something>

as in: italics on word/phrase <not italics>

lets push this button ….here is the top half showing html tags

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

Much to do today.

Fortunately, it is Tuesday (Tuesday’s motto: “Sure, why not? the Rest of the week is wide open. Be all you can be today and don’t worry ’bout nothin')

Hey! Don’t forget them extra cool upper/lower ordinals (?) and, blockquotes for good measure.

This, of course, in response to Mimi and Denise’s comments.
<blockquote>Yes, you can’t demo html code without it doing the effect, I’ve tried. Maybe if you post a picture of the code it would work. (M.)

I’ll meet everyone in the language lab a bit later! (D)</blockquote>
ok1. errr ok1

that should cover all the html that we ever use. now: lets see if’n ‘the Press let’s us copy and paste them pyschoglyphics!

For us, once we were told the basic convention (of extra-cool word things) was: using ‘<’ and ‘>” as brackets always negate the command, as in <something> Object word/phrase </something>

as in: italics on word/phrase <not italics>

Holy shit! it worked!

Lets quit while we ahead.

This is the way that we know of to put italics and such into comments on another body’s post.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 29, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

thank Eris we have a certain acceptance of RePrint posts, both as a rhetorical lubricant and a good, old-fashioned placeholder/filler material!

We’re in the initial phase of a project in the ‘real’ world. Definitely be taking the notes, for the progress reports, doncha’ know.

As we all know, the Wakefield Doctrine is both toy and tool. It’s the original, ‘and this dial makes the parents gigantic shoes fit like a glove and this slider shifts perspective to account for the relative elevation of most day-to-day reference points, including (but not limited to) mirrors, sinks, showerheads and bookshelfs,’ device.

but, it being Monday and we gots to provide more value than a three second vid loop (not that it’s all that bad, lol) lets go find a post by searching ‘parental influence’.

didn’t find the full phrase, but ‘parental’ turned up:

Time to get back to the serious matter of the Wakefield Doctrine

March 11, 2011

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

…a unique, useful and fun way to understand why the people in our lives do the things that they do. And this is the place to learn about the three personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers. Everyone you encounter today will be one of these three types, and if you know the type you not only will know why they act the way that they do, you will be able to predict how they will behave in virtually any situation. How cool is that?

But we have had some Readers say to us, “hey you Doctrinaires! We like what we think we read in your blog, but my parents want me to go to college to learn about relationships, personality theories and such. What are we to do in order to convince our parental units to give us all the tuition money directly and let us decide where to spend it, higher education-wise. You know what we mean? Don’t you guys have a talkshow (sort of) and know everything, tell us what to say, yo“!

Alright, we will.
Print the following chart and paste it into a nice binder-thing, like those smoked cellulite term-paper things with the v-shaped plastic thingie to hold it all together. Not only will the following chart prove to be an irrefutable argument for convincing your parents to come across with the Tuition Money, but to totally demonstrate how all helpful the Wakefield Doctrine is, we will be available this Saturday evening to help you slap a big-time close on Daddy and Mom for that money. We want you to start and simply argue with them until they’re just about to get mad and then tell them, ” Now, Father and Mother, if you have any questions about the efficacy of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers and would like to hear from the actual people behind this Wakefield Doctrine, lets just call them toll free right now! OK? (They will probably say, “OK”! But if they do not, tell them that if they do not call the Wakefield Doctrine, you will take all your clothes and go and live with the hobos or the local Salvation Army/YMCA people or the nearest commune).
Dial this badboy: 1-605-475-2200 access code: 6660467#. (we’ll take it from there…best keep your car running though.)

Advantages of the Wakefield Doctrine over any of those personality theories taught at “colleges” and “universities”

the Wakefield Doctrine Those “real” personality theories

Educational Requirements Yeah, right High School and frickin College and maybe even more!

How long does it take to learn …this afternoon be soon enough? Way, way too long

How much does it cost Fifty-eleven dollars and a subscription to ‘Modern roger’ Way more than you have on you! Like you will be paying it off for the next 15 years

Professional Standards …well, we have hats (for your damn head) Yeah, but you have to pay to join the APA, ACPA, ASPCA

Practical Applications Way too many to mention No, there’s this matter of Professional Standards and Ethics. Total buzzkill

Where do I sign up? Over to the right, yo Not so fast! Lets see some transcripts, and Letters or Reference and Advance Payments

Now here at the Doctrine blog, we are not all, ‘hey! this is serious and you have to pay attention’! No, we have free music to listen to and watch and all.