Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )
Hey, everyone! Look at this:
(when you are at the sites you can see both front and back…to return here click the ‘Back’ button…glenn)
Yeah, thats right! Tee Shirts! We are working on the Spring Line of the (official) Wakefield Doctrine Fashion Line. Or as we have been taking to referring to it around here: “the ’11 the Hard Way Collection”!
Yeah, you read that right. Putting the finishing touches on the fashion for this Spring/Summer 2011. We still open to suggestions for (the) rogerian shirts. If you have any ideas, just use the Comment Box at the bottom of the Post to submit your suggestions. (If the line is too long, drop us an email.)
Pricing has not yet been finalized, so don’t let the prices on the (illustration) website alarm you. I have no doubt there will be Contests and Giveaways, just as we have done with the (nearly free) hats (for your damn head), we will be sure that Readers will be able secure themselves some Tees, if’n theys want to. Plus having a line of Tee Shirts means that we can get the Doctrine out there on some chestses… hey, is it me or does that sounds like an idea for a Contest!
(Pre-pre-liminary Announcement of the First Contest to Win a ’11 the Hard Way Tee Shirt!) To begin March 6th, the first annual “Hey you can’t take a picture of my chest…oh! you’re from the Doctrine! It’s ok then.” ( aka YCT ‘a POMC)
Rules will be announced as we make them up.
Expect to see some changes in the ‘look’ of the Doctrine in the next month or so…plans are staggering along to go back to the ‘Branford’ theme that we had back last Spring. (This was the more ‘magaziny’ looking layout, sorta like the current layout, only better.) We are also working on getting more educational with this Doctrine thing of ours. The consensus is that, while there is value in “listening in on” the discussions of DownSprings and Progenitors by way of the Posts; some of our newer Readers are not getting the basics of the Wakefield Doctrine, at least not getting them quickly enough to get hooked on the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers.
The best suggestion (to help the new Reader get up to speed) came from the Progenitor roger…video! Or to be more precise, one of those flash video inserts that we can stick on ‘front page’ of the Doctrine. This way a new Reader can hear about the Doctrine in a quick 45 to 90 second video clip (…to quote our favorite lady, ‘you been told’). Pre-liminary pre-production is already started. Two aspects of the production; Content and Casting.
(…did someone just hear “…Lesson of the Day…Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day!” )
Actually this issue is a very useful topic to build a Lesson of the Day around. But maybe there isn’t any debate about which of the three (clark, scott or roger) would make the best Spokesthing.
Put me down for 1 vote for (young) scottian female. Anyone got a problem with that? No, I didn’t think so. But lets take advantage of this moment of all too rare unanimity… lets explain to the new Readers out there, why we all feel that a scott is the best choice for the job of Wakefield Doctrine Spokesthing.
It comes down to capturing the attention of the new Reader and holding it for as long as possible. Here in the world of blogs, attention span is as fleeting as ‘quiet introspection in a scott’, it happens, but it will be gone as soon as you have a chance to notice.
The video intro will be clearly marked:
- Important Information for New Readers! (we will catch the clarks there)
- …it should then say in an authoritative looking font: CLICK HERE (got some rogers)
- The ‘still’ photo will be an attractive, young-but-not-too-young (say 19-23 yo) female appearing to be happy to tell you something (the scotts are seated)
The presentation should follow Mouzas’s Three Elements (of all) Sales Pitches, Employee Workplace Coping Skills Training Module(s) and How to Get Lucky on the First Date Strategy:
- tell them what you are going to tell them
- tell them
- tell them what you just told them
(Pretty simple, isn’t it?)
So after consulting with the DownSprings, FOtD and Progenitors, we will come up with a 45 second introduction video to the Wakefield Doctrine.
(Did someone mutter, “hey thats easy for you to say”? Yeah, well you think this is easy? You try getting up here and writing this little plan…(not so easy is it?) and if you get this far lets see you close this Post out with:
“…so we need all the DownSprings and Friends of the Doctrine and Progenitors to be on the lookout for a young, attractive scottian female, who would be willing to help us out, for free”…
hey! where’d you go? Come back here, you have to Reply to the Comments! lol)
er…Mr. B might perhaps be a good time to play us some runnin away music, yo
About clarkscottroger
Great music. Da bode of ’em. The Bluegrass artists are all American Treasures–but so young in this video! Allison Krause still had all her baby fat and dark hair. John Hartford is now among the dead. I got no T-shirt to give you, but I can arrange for a special place in Heave…er…Hell, for the one who can name the hit song written by John Hartford. No Googling, ya bastards! You either know it or you don’t.
Here’s my submission for the Roger t-shirt: ” I’m a roger. How could you do this to me?”
I am truly a Clark from my inside to my outside. I always have been and always will be, I was diagnosed with chronic insomnia and parasomnia which is a night terror disease. This makes it kind of hard to truly fit in with society when your constantly not in the real world to begin with. I love this Doctrine because it shows just how my brain actually really works. I try to figure out certain ways everyday how I can be like everyone else in the world, while really I’m just working at still alienating myself. Either way, I am proud to be a Clark and everyone else can easily find which category they fit in and it can help you see how your brain works on a social level. It’s amazing how you hit the Clark category right on the head for me. Thanks for this whole Doctrine theory and allowing others to see this great piece of work you have put together!
good to hear from you…(the Doctrine holds that clarks would be the first to step up to this thing of ours…damn, is this thing cool or what?)
in any event, find a comfortable seat…feel free to contribute * and certainly ask questions (you can direct questions to any of the “people” you find here, including but not limited to DownSprings, FOD even the Progenitors)…we are all just one big happy family **
* the “nearly free” as found in the statement “…and you might win a (nearly free) hat (for your damn head)” is defined as ‘free’ provided the recipient submits a photo of their hat (with or without supporting damn head) in front of a large, reasonably famous landmark, plus they write mad Comments telling us all how totally cool and insightful we all are, even that guy glenn…
** family if you include in your definition of family: a group of people of varied levels of maturity, including but not limited to one who would spend 20 minutes trying to put together a joke when a simple, “Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine“, clearly would have been sufficient and another who thinks of this blogsite as the digital equivalent of a bar in the red light district of a second rate city where the height of wit is to scream at passing women, “Hey!! Hey!!! (er) YEah alright HEy!!” .
Well if this is consistent with your definition of family…sure welcome to the Doctrine, yo (the quiet one? nice smile with the teeth? thats AKH… friendly and all but you might want to be polite, ya know what I mean?)
Welcome Casey Coulter. Aways pleased to hear from a fellow clark here at the Doctrine. Gets a bit lonely sometimes:)
You are correct. the Wakefield Doctrine does allow individuals to “easily find which category they fit in and it can help”. It gives us a clear view of the other 2 “alternate” ways of viewing the world. With supporting videos no less! It clarifies behavior simply and in such a way as to allow clarks – anyone with an open mind (that means only some scotts) – to figure out just what the heck a person meant by making that statement or why in the world did they do that, there, in front of all those people or why they are pressuring me to do this or that?
Tell me – what other “personality theory” thing has a developing fashion line huh?
I’ll be the first to attend fashion week in Paris, Milan and…..New York City.(RCoyne? you be hailing the cabs, eh? Would make for a different kind of taxi cab confessions:) )
Hi there Casey. All joking aside, welcome aboard! Another Clark…. oh boy. But seriously, it’s refreshing to hear from a (new) reader (new prey btw) who is not confused about “who” they are and how you’ve interpreted the Wakefield Doctrine thus far. Stay with us and I promise you’ll be hooked. After all, you are a clark.