Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Not much on following Directions, are you? You thought I was joking about not reading this yet?? Fine then. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I have to open the lines for the Wakefield Doctrine Video brunch, I have not finished editing this Post (read: re-write)… well, since you insist on reading this, how about you help a blogger out here… any suggestions, revisions, edits or anything else submit as a Comment and I will make the change.
Hey! Thanks…. (no, I think I better just save that, in case we need it at the end of the Post)
Item 1: grateful for my willingness to employ the term ‘writer’s block’ and not feel self-conscious enough to delete it and find another word! there is still an underlying self-consciousness extant in this experience that has me…. ‘looking around the room’ when I refer to myself as a writer…lol no! seriously I do! I think of writers as people with… writing skills and, at the risk of indulging in a form of self-centeredness, I still am not comfortable including myself in that group
2) The Second Item: the Post from… that new guy… Mike… the guy with the granddaughter and his daughter is a photographer… wait a minute, hold on… Joe! that’s it! his blog is called: Joe Floggers(??!) his contribution this week included the experience of being in a funk (“…Joe! dude, got me the music vid for this Post, thanks!) What I got from (Mike’s Post) was reminder of the feeling of enthusiasm and (even) a little of a ‘sense of wonder’ that we all feel when we start writing a blog and it begins to ‘take off’. thanks Joe
3) You are grateful (or should be) that I deleted about 300 words in my first attempt to write this thing, but in that (300 word, ‘word salad’ ) I made mention of the TToT Book of Secret Rules which is guarded by Lizzi (and her majordom-ettes Christine and Dyanne they both bring an enthusiasm to their charge more commonly seen in lionesses when the pride is threatened or the dorm mother sitting in the lobby on a Saturday Night)
4) totally and genuinely grateful for wikipedia (and google in a more broad sense) not only for helping me correctly spell a lot of the …less commonly used words that I seem to be so fond of using, but in offering new concepts and ideas that I was not consciously aware of… in this case ‘clanging’ which came up on the page when I looked up ‘word salad’ very cool, wikipedia, very cool
5) for reasons not understood, what few ideas that occur to me as I type, on this cool November Sunday morning, are not frickin staying in my head long enough to get into a form that I can pass off as a Gratitude Item….damn!
6) grateful to the support from co-hosts and Participants alike for my own unique style exhibited here each weekend. I appreciate that, not necessarily for the reasons one would think…
7) yo! thank you zoe… for sending in a Comment that allowed me a few blessed moments of coherency as I struggled to reply to your comment (see on yesterday’s Post) (that it was a ‘struggle’ is testimony to the difficulties I am heroically enduring here in front of this blank page, the monitor staring at me like an attractive women that I must walk past in order to find the safety of the buffet table, she seems to expect something from me…no! she is challenging me! to prove myself deserving of her … response her attention… but the linen covered table, so very near… like being number 7 in a list of 10… my only hope is for a real person to come by… attractive scottian women are always drawn to a smooth talking scott
8) made it! hah! damn! I don’t particularly enjoy eating standing up while pretending to talk to business associates that are only their because they are afraid of losing business…all except those rogers who stand around in herd-lettes, the dominant roger, not the center of the group… but oriented so that he (yes… in a business conference environment the male rogers are visible to the un-trained eye, the female rogers not… the two most obvious are the male rogers and scottian females. the male rogers, as I just alluded to are the gate keepers to the small herds that they gather in… the scottian females lol they simply stand there and …and let the rogerian males….accrete (to not put to fine a point on it)! There is no mistaking the scottian female… the scottian male? probably already upstairs in his room with conquest #1 lol
9) I invoke Secret Rule 1.3 and claim relief.
10) that should do it for this week’s TToT… thanks for participating
totally should do this:
About clarkscottroger
number one really? Really? one????? huh???
don’t tell me there is some dumb-ass secret rule that Sundays don’t count right?
What are you doing invoking secret rule 1.3? I thought that had to do with … well never mind. Glad you made it through a second post my friend. Glad my inane drivel is also helpful to someone…interesting analogy in that little dream sequence! Hey look! IM #~3! IM #3! (secret rule #48.932x subsection 4.)
lol*
* when I fully unravel your comment, I will reply in a pithy** manner
** just looked up ‘Bananas’ and came across the word
Accreting male rogers!…ick…
zoe
please do a Mutual of Omaha voiceover for the following:
Alright zoe. By the end of that video, I was scared of the woman narrator. Frightened. LOL
I think it’s because she’s pronouncing it ‘knacker’, which is VERY weird…
zoe
and no! it is not an indictment or comment or criticism of the scottian females, per se… some of my best friends are scotts
but I dare you ( I double dare you, as Samuel might shout) to go to a social function and position yourself to observe the lone scottian female…. the irritants will soon make their appearance
mollusks must be Scottian…as a Clark (predominantly) I just seem to produce tumors to common irritants. ..ha! I just seem to be having a Scottian day today….maybe there’s a pearl in my future. Lol
I am so tempted to just be an asshole and keep going… too late… already there!
*snort, giggle*
Great read for my Sunday entertainment. ;) Off to the MIL’s but have a GRRREAT DAY! Happy TToT. I don’t think I’ll get a chance to do a TToT post. LOL
I can’t decide what’s better; Funky Town, Secret Rule Invocation (1.3 in this case, perhaps, but I’ve got the book and I’m coming back atcha with 27b) or Zoe being an asshole up there – DEFINITELY a touch of the scott about that one…
Not that it’s for me to say, however one *is* allowed to observe.
And I’ll brb as soon as I’ve clicked over to dictionary.com (MY best friend) to find out what the hell ‘accrete’ is…
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…HEY! That’s what female cuttlefish do. Look it up! They secrete a hormone and the boys accrete all over the place!
So if Christine and Dyanne ‘both’…what’s my role?
Lizzi
damn! sequence won’t be apparent but (this Comment is being read and the Reply is written after my video upload) lol
Yo Lizzi! You missed a good brunch today. And speaking of “rules”, Michelle talked about rogers and rules and such. Really? there are rules to the TToT?! Why I had no idea:)
Ack! Hate missing out :(
Yup, that’s me. Simply standing in a room waiting for the men to gather. NOT!!
I was thinking about you all last night at our church’s fall festival. In the course of the evening I sat at three different tables visiting with people and standing to talk to several others. The thought, I do believe Clark would call my behavior “working the room”. :)
Christine
alright!
There is was never a question that you would ‘get’ the Doctrine or use the Doctrine… but you are one of few scotts we have around here and so my interest in what you do with our little personality theory. of the three personality types, it is safe to say that you scotts are the most competent in life.* So scotts don’t need ‘a Wakefield Doctrine’, but having said that, the vast majority of scotts don’t ‘get’ the Doctrine and it’s not an intelligence thing, it’s a flexibility thing, imagination, enjoying the ‘what ifs’… you guys are competent at dealing with life, but at the cost of a certain amount of … of frivolity …
You are one of the exceptional ones, having the ‘competence of a scott’ with (we refer to it as your secondary aspect) a clarklike quality that likes to play with ideas.. not a lot, not gonna waste time day dreaming, but enough to see the fun in things like the Wakefield Doctrine.
(why yes! I do realize that I assume and presume to know about people I have never met! lol that’s why they invented the internet.)
*and yes, your ears pricked up at that last… but no, this is not a trap or a set up…
Christine… clark …play nice don’t make me separate you two!
zoe
lol I won’t hurt her… (yes, Christine that was ‘a free one’ lol)
(now that we’re all adults…) we look back and realize two things about children and adults: a) the parent offering the admonition usually thought of the clark as needing protection (from the clearly more competent and aggressive scott) and yet, among the children themselves, that distinction would be neither that certain or necessary
Christine! YOU may not have been waiting for the men but I bet they were there:) lol
They always are…I’ve always had more male friends than female friends.
Christine
“…I’ve always had more male friends than female friends.”
… who would be pretty much all rogers except for one who is a clark.
(we* are still not totally certain on the general tenor of the (female) scott and (female) clark relationships. As I just said, (the Doctrine) would say that you do have a male clark as a friend (“…he’s so witty, most people don’t get his humor” and you can tell him anything) but the interaction between female scotts and female clarks… might be somewhat less congenial. With one of the scottian women I work with, there appears to be a certain…lack of patience on the scotts part in regards to the female clark.)
I am interested in any light, insight examples and stories in this regard that you feel comfortable sharing with us…
*the Doctrine, that is
“Word salad” is a great phrase, but now I’m wondering if there is a “word casserole”.
Kristi
there should be… we could put an image of the TToT next to it in the Wikipedia lol
I grew up with Funky Town. :) Didn’t realize most of the lyrics were the same sentence repeated 3 more times. I wonder if that’s where the ‘repeat 3 times’ technique for remembering came from
Secret Rule 1.3…..*running off to make write down for next week*
lol
Whoo! I’m glad I stopped by, but I need time to ingest all this theory. I’ll follow you in order to catch up on all this business.
Sarah
that sounds great! take your time… read some of the Posts… feel free to ask questions (me or Lizzi or Cyndi or pretty much anyone you see in these Comments).
To help get you started: we all live in one (of the three personal realities) but we still have access to ‘the other two’ this is why you might think that you a mix or a mutation…not to worry. Try out different types on yourself… you can’t break it (the Wakefield Doctrine) and…and you can’t get it wrong!! We have fun around here
My head is spinning. And now I have Funky Town stuck in my head instead of “Wrecking Ball.”
Won’t you take me to Funky TOWWWWN? Won’t you take me TO FUNKY towwwwwn?
Dyanne
…talk about it,
talk about it,
talk about it.
lol