Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
************* Hey! voting is starting to gather some steam!…looks like zoe is in the lead but Sandy and Lizzi and the others are not far behind. Don’t forget the entry period is open til midnight, so if you’ve got some Collective Nouns that you want to share (and maybe win a docTee!!) ‘Comment them’ and I’ll get them down in the block quote and…and! add them to the Voting Poll. Hurry Hurry!*************************
We have some outstanding entries in the First Annual ‘What the Hell Kind of Contest is This?? (now-you’re-just-making-stuff-up) Contest …best Collective Noun for a bunch of bloggers Edition’! And I do remember how the instructions for the Contest included: “...weekend and ends the week after the break. All entries will be Posted on Sunday of the first week we are back and the Winner will be announced the week thereafter. The Prize will be an Official Wakefield Doctrine docTee* awarded to the person who comes up with the Best TToT Collective Noun as measured by the most Votes.”
…about that 3 or 4 weeks later thing. You Readers know that I am from the Land of the Y Chromosome, and being all mature adults with a lot of experience with my people (no, Kristi, I am not looking at you), you all know how much it is an inbred trait of us to enjoy …delaying gratification? you know making plans and enjoying festivities and then slowly at the appointed time, opening presents and such? Yeah, I know we’re all good with the waiting thing. It’s just that the TToT is on a hiatus and we have a bunch of cool entries and such, so if no one has an Objection ( Lizzi?) I thought I might fast forward our Contest.
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Alright!!
so I’ll post a block quote listing of the entries and (just below that will be a voting thingie…it will have the name of the person to vote for). Revised Rule!! The winner is the one with the most Votes at 9am tomorrow morning. You can submit as many entries as you wish and you can (and should) vote for as many as you like just one thing… you can vote for as many different Entrants as you want, as often as you want…just not your own. so lets get… (oh shit!! nearly forgot!! I am grateful (genuinely) for: 1) this here bloghop here; 2) the fact that it rained here after last night’s snow which is helping depress the snow cover; 3) not-G for the soaking wet snow that I need to get out of the driveway before the freeze makes it a skating rink; 4) my ‘visuals/sense of humor’ when I typed the thing about my driveway becoming a skating rink, I got a quick flash of some guy in white leotards on skates throwing a girl (in flesh-colored leotards) into my garage door; 5) my work…for the chance yesterday to remember that it is not a burden, it’s a chance to be alive; 6) the people coming to the TToT of late… Lizzi’s dream of establishing a community of like-minded people is becoming real; 7) Christine and Dyanne for being such scotts! I really enjoyed ‘meeting’ you both (separate occasions) on the Doctrine Vidchats; 8) only one more week until Summer!; 9) the Book of Secret Rules, even if they are protected by GuardVirgins who answer only to Lizzi; 10) Secret Rule 1.3 cha! ching!! on with the presents!!!
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Let the Contest Begin! All entries will be attributed to Contestants (although it is possible for non-Contestants to contribute Entries and Assign them to anyone they choose.) We will continue in tomorrow’s Post. Enter Soon and Enter Often!!
zoe: ‘a collective of bloggers’
Lizzi: ‘an Outwriting of bloggers’ and ‘a braveness of bloggers’
Denise: ‘a marceau of bloggers’
Mrs. ‘Town’: ‘a Hump of bloggers’*
Mrs. Always Random: ‘a rhapsody of bloggers’ and ‘a chuffed of bloggers’
Stephanie: ‘a groggers of bloggers’ (??!) (lol like the sound of that one…)
Lizzy (from Muddle-Headed Mamma): the evocative ‘a Harem of Happy-makers’ (yeah I agree the bold-facing of the one word, does sorta make it ‘pop’) lol
Sandy: ‘a mosaic of bloggers’ (nice… )
the progenitor roger: ‘A postendium of bloggers’ (a certain classical feel… interesting)
Kristi: ‘a chatter of bloggers’ the competition is so heating up now!
Michelle: ‘a chorus of bloggers’
zoe: (will combine all later today in TToT.5) we have: ‘a Possegrat of bloggers’
‘a Graterie of bloggers’
‘a Congregrat of bloggersDenise: ‘Purveyors of Perspicacity’
(“…on this, the final day of play, these writers are showing what makes them the world class competitors that they are… relaxed and almost over-confident yesterday, everyone’s bringing out their ‘A Game’ )
Keep ’em coming!
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Now the Poll!
and remember the Contest does not end until tomorrow morning 9:00am EST
About clarkscottroger
FIRST! HA! I CLAIM IT…
lol
and you know what that means!!
damn… I don’t think you do…
it means you get to cast 7 (extra votes*) for one person!!
*why on behalf of the 7 GuardVirgins, of course!
OH BRILLIANT! But for only one person? Owww!
Also, POLL! (I vote progenitor Roger… (interestingly))
Lizzi
as a matter of fact, multiple voting is possible!
so I don’t seem to be able to vote on either of my computers and I’m assuming its my problem not yours because it has been a long. So that being said I would love to vote for Denise and Christie’s chatter bloggers as well as Lizzie’s outwriting bloggers….and oh my god I laughed so hard about that image on I think its number four of the person slamming into your garage that I tblew tea out my nose…. yeah, attractive I know.
try once more… I had to re-set to allow multiple votes (as allowed in the Rules)…
if that doesn’t work, then I will perform the exotic and sought after by tourists the world over, Proxy Vote!
lol no! that is the ultimate compliment! god knows we all try for the ‘catch them off guard drinking something and cause them to have said fluid come out of nose’! it’s even better than the traditional ‘spit take’…made famous (before all of your times…by one Danny Thomas aka the Father of the Spit Take) let me go get an example!
Voted! Because I love the word postendium :)
And I have to admit, the rain after the snow here just made my walk to the store very slippery!
Wow….how did you rig that? Well done!
Voted. Wish I had time to do a post…making something for a staff potluck in a little while. And here I thought I’d have more time once classes finished. LOL
Cyndi
yeah, what’s the deal with that! (disappearing time thing) how long ‘tween semesters?
Togas are a bit hard to come by these days, so I tried making one from bath towels and safety pins. Seemed to work OK, and only mildly similar to Depends. But trying desperately to undo 18 safety pins in the bathroom…well, that’s probably why the Depends have that velcro tape…live and learn. Plus, your olive- branch hat keeps falling off.
I think “toga” is Latin for “diaper.”
Son of a blippity blat freakin frackin cat on a hot tin roof!!! The ONE week I take a hiatus and have a ridiculously busy weekend so can’t get to all the posts until Monday, you go and 1.) have a contest, then 2) CHANGE THE DAMN RULES AND MOVE UP THE DATE SO I CAN’T PARTICIPATE!!
I’m listing some anyway.
The Positive Posse
A league of lovely listers
The Grateful Gang
A Band of Bad-Ass Bloggers
The He-Man, Woman Hater’s Club, Unless Those Women Are Making Thankful Lists (That one’s for Rich.)
And as annoyed as I was with you, it was all erased when you gave me the visual of a guy in a leotard skating around and throwing his skating partner into your garage door. You can always make me smile. :)
Christine
you want to know how very little I underestimate the ‘persuasive powers’ of a scottian female? I so don’t under-estimate you people, that I am willing to do the following:
through whatever means available (probably best that we not be told), if you can get 3 people to write Comments that contains the words: ‘aiyee the scott she is upset, please put that Collective Noun Voting Poll up live on a Post and extend the deadline to 4:44 pm EST 12/17/2013!!’
have them do this by the end of the day today… and your (implied) wish will be granted. yo ho ho!
OW! Fuck! Headlock! Damnit woman that HURT you just
OOOOOOOFFF! *wheeezes*
oshitoshitoshitoshitoshit thatfuckinhurtso NO NO! NO!!!! Please don’t do that again, okay, okay…UNCLE!
(damn!)
‘aiyee the scott she is upset, please put that Collective Noun Voting Poll up live on a Post and extend the deadline to 4:44 pm EST 12/17/2013!!’
Clark. You and I need a word….
well no one beat the living life out of me I still don’t know how to cut and paste or anything good like that from my phone so if I say what lizzi said is that going to suffice to extend the loading time? And if you need a third skip is willing to third that for you…
crap I can’t even use auto correct it’s voting time not loading time
Zoe….rescue me…I’m all beat up!
you want I should beat someone’s ass fo yo? at least til they’re schnookered????
No! No more fighting! Good grief!
It’s just not worth it with fists and kicking…whips and ropes and THEN we’re talking….but no.
Let’s end the madness now…just get me outta here!
look I’m on my way but no promises I may hafta take someone out so as i can break ya outta dere.
I got what I needed. She is free to walk. Able to…that’s another story.
*pouts*
You’re vicious when you want something. I didn’t know a simple “What’s it worth?” would’ve gotten you so riled up!
zoe
you know, this medium with it’s ‘I-know-what-word-should-go-here’ spellcheck is probably causing us all to learn to read …differently! I read you Comment (and your op cit correction) we good, it looks like Christine has got the whole town all riled up…lol
Thanks for your support in extending the loading time! :)
“aiyee the scott she is upset, please put that collective noun voting poll up live on a post and extend the deadline to 4:44 pm EST 12/17/2013!!
giant
thank you for this Comment (on behalf of she who’s name we’ll just keep between our-own-selfs).
‘aiyee the scott she is upset, please put that Collective Noun Voting Poll up live on a Post and extend the deadline to 4:44 pm EST 12/17/2013!!’
Hey Buttercup – I love what you did with those gorgeous icons on your Mom’s blog. Please could you start thinking about how to make one for Twitter? She’s gonna need it soon :D Thankyouverymuch.
Buttercup
…to borrow a line from a very excellent movie, ‘as you wish’
Aiyee the scott she is upset, please put that Collective Noun Voting Poll up live on a Post and extend the deadline to 4:44 pm EST 12/17/2013!!
Three. Boom!
lol
see Comment below
You rock, Dyanne!
I second that :D
aiyee the scott she is upset, please put that Collective Noun Voting Poll up live on a Post and extend the deadline to 4:44 pm EST 12/17/2013!!
Woohoo! Thanks!
Aye Cpt. Bligh!!!! It’s a freaking mutiny I tell ya! That scott…she’s got many a friend in high places!!!! Me and the wee doggie even fell prey!
lol
I see we have also added Kristi to the party democracy in action, one day…multiple votes (I suspect we will have to leave the multiple choices to a secondary vote or maybe just the discretion of the authorae
Oh my goodness. I was cracking up laughing thinking about #4. Awesome list! So glad I found you ladies. Happy Holidays . I’m looking forward to linking up in the new year. :)
Aiyee brittinei….wecome to the monkey house! I suspect you will be finding your sense of sarcasm will soon be over developed! Just wanted you to be prepared…it can be frightening! ****squee****
zoe
what do you (cheep) mean, ‘monkey house’? (cheep)… I much prefer Bedlam as a more dignified allusion
lol
I was attempting to stay within a literary reference
well I’ll see your Vonnegut and raise you Shakespeare
Bedlam perhaps, but I think you may be giving too much credit to those monkeys.
although with enough time on a typewriter…
lol
(*&dhiyihr smell k(*((^hldhsh Juliet
#\/! (72’$;@snort.”$@ puck\#*,#*….SkIp…
….skip is more partial to the comedies…lol
Brittnei
thank you… this, ‘the bloghop that Lizzi built’ really is quite remarkable
clark
from the honorable State of Y Chrome-ville