Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Hey! Lets have a Contest! A ‘shortest Post’ Contest!
The idea came to me from a Comment that I wrote over at Janine’s…or maybe it was Melanie’s blog or perhaps it was Emily’s (I’m pretty sure it was not Molly or Cyndi’s site and 100% certain it was not Terrye’s blog). In any event, I was Commentioning on a point and felt the need to make a reference to an old schoolyard game called, ‘See who can hit the lightest’.
( Doctrine Note: This game can be seen as one of the earliest indicators of a scottian personality type, as it was, invariably a scott who would start the game. (Astute Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine will smile knowingly at this last statement, thinking to themselves, ‘yeah, with a clark at their side telling them about the game’ ) (lol).
In any event, if you are not familiar with the game, it goes something like this:
(larger, more aggressive child): “Hey, wanna see who can hit the lightest?
(smaller, simply-wanted-to-get-through-recess-without-being-spotted child): “er… sure…(I guess)
(larger, more vocal child): “Hey everyone!! clark challenged me to a ‘hit the lightest’ contest!!!”
(multiple, where-the-hell-did-they-come-from? children): “Yeah… lets get in a circle!! no, lets form the circle way …over here!”
(smaller, sinking-feeling-in-stomache child): “sure…I guess”
(larger, shirt-sleeve-rolling-up-child): “ awwright! You go first”
(smaller, I-will-show-such-control-they-will-probably-debate-if-it-counts-as-a-Hit child): “All right, here it comes”
(multiple, watching-the-exaggeratedly-slow-motion-hit-beginning-to-snicker-cause-they-are-in-on-the-joke children): “Whoa!! look at that!!!”
(smaller, feeling-proud-of-finally-having-the-approval-of-those-kids child): “Let’s see you match that.. match that”
(larger, this-kid-is-in-grade-school?-what-do-they-serve-for-lunch-here-chicken-ala-steroids? child): ” YOU WIN….!!!!!”
(smaller, holy-shit-does-that-hurt child): “ha? ha?
(multiple, eyes-on-the-victim-standing-behind-agrresive children): “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha …ha, did you see the look on….ha”
(smaller, happy-to-be-able-to-laugh-instead-of-cry child): “ha, ha man that’s really amazing how you managed to do that”
(larger, more-agressive-child): “Hey! I really love that joke!!
(smaller, now-sensing-something-new-in-the-schoolyard child): “yeah, this joke last week that got me sent to the Principle’s Office”
(larger, more agressive-now-curious-and-a-bit-intrigued child): “man I heard about that…that was you?
So the Rules of the Shortest Post Contest:
- it must make sense and contain a coherent thought
- it must be understandable/intelligible/something-ible
- entries should be presented in block quotes so it is clear what exactly the Post is
- it does not need to be about the Wakefield Doctrine
- participation is voluntary, but will contribute significantly to your Final Score
About clarkscottroger
I am so swamped right now and will have to see what time I am playing with later, but am definitely intrigued by this. Look forward to seeing what others come up with, too. Great idea :) :)
@Janine
Cool… will watch for it. (btw is fts on for tomorrow?)
[ I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous!]
@Steve
dude! Liking it! (will be gathering all submissions and putting them in the Post for Dave Mack and them to judge.
Huh…this could go right along with the photography I’m doing. Will take a look!
@Cyndi
..cool
Love this idea…sort of like the constraints of sending a text, but in a post instead. I’ll try to enter if I can come up with something clever — and short!
@Emily
I’m looking forward (without the slightest hint of what to expect) to the results…
I’m intrigued by this, but considering it takes me about a page to say one sentence I think I’m out. Will be checking back though!
@Rachel
lol I know what you mean! (It’s only because I hit ‘back-space’ that these things are not longer.)
Wait. Still not clear on the rules. I want to participate but I need the bottom line. What do I gotta do? How long (or short)? What’s it have to be about? Where do I post it?
Phew> I think I need more coffee!
@Julie
I did a Post writing Contest a couple of months ago where I simply placed the links to the (entrant’s) blogs in the Contest Post and invited the Readers to go an look. Since joining the BB g, I realize that that is a fairly simplistic approach, ( had fun with Kate and Janine’s blog hop last Friday)…as an Alternative, mad possible due to the nature of our little contest, I thought I could simply display everyone’s Post on the one page (it being a shortest Post Contest and all)
(Clearly, if this Reply is any indication, I don’t have a chance in god’s green earth of winning this contest, lol…but the contest is simply who can write the shortest Post*)
*It must be a Post… given that Readers are all writers of not-inconsiderable skills, everyone will know a Post from a single non-sensical sentence.
Hmmmm…. I have an idea… If I can get it into words.
If not, I have a very short story I wrote a while ago… Does that count? Is recycling legal? ;)
@Molly
It better be! lol
oh man…I suck at “short” stuff. And I suck at the really long stuff. Shit…I just suck!
@Terrye
(as an entry, let me say) I like it! Will enter it in the Contest