Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Sunshire Awards Part II
(There are certain protocols to be followed when receiving this recognition. In her Post Wednesday, Lizzi tells us that we are to: answer the 7 questions she posed, reveal a certain number of ‘quirky’ things about myself/the Wakefield Doctrine and nominate others to receive the award and require them to answer a new set of Questions. Fine. I answered the 7 Questions in yesterday’s Post. I will now proceed to discharge my duties, subsequent to completing the process.)1
“…Offer 7 interesting/quirky/random/obscure facts about yourself * Answer the 7 questions posed by the blogger who nominated you * Nominate [mutable number of] other bloggers to receive the award, posing them 7 new questions.”
I will direct your attention to the wording of Liz’s nomination, Clark Scottroger – The Wakefield Doctrine
…why no, I don’t have to do more of a ‘setup, do I? (what I like the most about you Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is that you are as quick (and often quicker) than I am… so lets have some fun)
(mutable number) of interesting/quirky/random/obscure facts about the Wakefield Doctrine:
- clarks will often ‘decide’ that they like someone who they barely know and proceed to create a relationship… this, of course, simply means that the clark acts friendly, confident and open (with the ‘target person’), clearly accessing their own scottian and rogerian aspects
- scotts, for all of their being the most confident and self-assured (of the three), when confronted with overwhelming opposition will ‘retreat’ to their rogerian aspect before they will retreat to the clarklike aspect
- rogers lets say there is a major snowstorm, goodly accumulation, oh I don’t know, 6 inches? but the day of the snow storm is the day of the garbage pickup (the trash cans have to be place at the end of the driveway) will the roger in the household decide: a) they won’t be picking up today ’cause of the storm, b) the priority is to get the garbage cans to the curbside first and foremost, even though the driveway (that leads to the curbside) has not been shoveled, will drag said cans into (approximate) position c) wtf? wait, it’ll take a little to shovel the drive, they don’t pick up until the afternoon, in any event!
- both the progenitor scott and progenitor roger were (and remain) accomplished musicians, however scott is also artistically gifted
- there is a ‘Pete Best’ figure in the pre-pre-theory of clarks, scotts and rogers
- what the hell! I looked up Pete Best, for an image, y’know and they guy was a scott! never realized that… interesting
- everyone has all three worldviews as a potential, everyone ends up growing up and developing in one of these three, leaving the other two nearby, but not everyone has a significant secondary or tertiary aspect…it’s there, but they are simply a clark or totally a scott or such a roger… so don’t feel you have to determine a person’s secondary or tertiary aspect
There! Done! One thing left to do. I’m supposed to pick seven people to receive the award (located at the bottom of this Post) and pose a whole new set of questions for them to answer! however, I’m going to break the Rules a touch.
I’ll list seven people I know and like. I’ll pose a fairly obviously contrived list of questions that they are expected to answer, but will be offering an Alternative…to answering the questions…in their blog Post
- Jean at ‘Snap out of it, Jean! there’s Beading to be done!’ (yeah, just one of things we like about her)
- zoe at re-written (hey, if you’re not up to it, let Skip write the answers!)
- roger at Secessionist Rag ( as a progenitor it’s about time he got to do some of the work that goes with the title)
- Christine (like we even need to tell you which Christine!)
- Stephanie Life Unexpectedly
The Questions: 1) how did you feel in the middle of writing your first Post; 2) your first boyfriend/girlfriend, a clark or a scott or a roger; 3) you’re on a desert island and the cannibals are spotted paddling those weird out-rigger, tree-trunk canoes (yeah, this is that episode of Gilligans Island) and you have a choice of the other person with you on the island, who would you prefer? clark or scott or roger; 4) which of the ‘other two’ worldviews are you most uncomfortable swapping with…
The Alternative: we used to do ‘interviews’ with people a couple of years ago. The way it would work was that I would arrange a time and open the Saturday Night call in number and the person would call and, from my car driving around, I would ask them questions. (the resulting video would be of my hat and dashboard and the voice of my guest). As your Alternative, you could accept the invitation to do an interview… think about it.
(Stephanie? you might want to consider the Alternative, as the cost of a phone call would probably be just a bit under $5,789.34…lol)
TONIGHT the Wakefield Doctrine presents, ‘when the cat’s away Video Chat’!!!
I need to ask if anyone with a personality out there would please sign the list below so that I can invite you early. Lizzi is on vacation and there is a risk that I will be standing around the vid chat with a tray of jelly-on-ritz crackers acting as the host (for you older readers, visual: Fred MacMurray, Andy Griffith, Mr. Rogers and Tyler Durden serves canapés ) Leave us a Comment if you can attend, I’ll be sure to send the invite out to your google+ account!
1) I am grateful that Lizzi has seen fit to invoke the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) to allow a certain degree of….personal interpretation of the Rules and such, no less a follower of this Authority, I will be making certain modification to the rules, procedures, provisions, requirements and stipulations of the aforementioned Sunshire Award… but, I can’t be specific as to which Rule, as is only proper, according to the Secret Rule I am following.
About clarkscottroger
OOOOOOOOOHHHHH SNEAKY! Kudos on your rulemongering.
I LOVE #1. That SO DEFINITELY HAPPENS TO ME! And it’s glorious.
I will miss you all A LOT. But will try to relax and enjoy myself in your absence.
Lizzi
thanks
given how old you are not, you will have to google Mr. Rogers, Fred MacMurray, Andy Griffith and probably Tyler Durden…. lol
we’ll miss you tonight, but I’m sure you’ll get the story from many alt sources…
(love the word: rulemongering!)
Where ya heading Lizzi? Somewhere warm I hope!
Not warm – rainy and foggy and ‘orrible, but I’m indoors and cosy and well-fed.
Hello and thanks! I had better start writing my responses. I am very honoured to receive this award; truly appreciate it.
On the other hand I do want to warn you that NONE of my dear friends with blogs will continue to pass it along. I hope that is all right. They just don’t understand. Artists/Outsiders all !!!
I am trying to figure the timing on the video chat (as I mentioned to Zoe), and whether it will work for me, That is a very busy time here in our household. I can’t guarantee anything as we are an unpredictable bunch! And that is the craziest time of day of all!
PS: Concerning your video: if you consider switching the word emotion to the word committment, you might discover that you have just what it takes to add considerable power to your doctrine. Or not, Committment works for me–that is all I know,
Thank you again, dear clark!
I was just studying Pete Best yesterday online.
jeh xox
jeh
you welcome… (as I’m sure you have surmised), these Awards are sincerely given and passed on with all of what the original creator (of said Award) intended, and, …and! the twists that we like people are inclined to add.
..which is a great segue to the Vid Chats… this thing is meant for enjoyment (and my opportunity to lecture on the Doctrine…lol) and the basic rule of enjoyment (at least around the Wakefield Doctrine) is choice and stresslessness… we are there, we will totally be glad when you get the chance to join us, but there is no pressure to bend schedules, rearrange plans or otherwise make it difficult…. so, at your leisure you better join us. (lol)
interesting suggestion on the emotion/committment swap.. I’m a total believer in the use of ‘word tool’… ways to alter how an idea is perceived, how we present and like that… wil get back to you on that
I loves a good coincidence!
Hey! COINCIDENCES R US.
And … the word commmittment (commitment? sp?) changed my life.I don’t mean “love/ committment”…I mean swapping the word “time” for “comittment”, <– there, another way to spell committment.
PS: I am trying to make myself sound interesting so I can post my post!!! jenh xox
Thanks re: the vid chats!
I have written an acceptance for my award and it is on my blog dated Friday. 1/24/2014
thanks again http://prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com/ jyhnhah xox
Ill be there…zoe
…and your little dog, too!*
(I know a part of your mind is, or will be saying…. “ok I buy his explanation of choice of photos… but Taylor Swift? on a frickin paddle board? wtf?!?!)
* Margret Hamilton
Actually I hadn’t read the whole post… Ironically I did see your vid last night. I was looking for a particular tune on youtube and am subscribed to you and my niece… well, there you were …apparently if subscribed you just pop up on my screen… so anyway… I just now found out you have bestowed the lovely sunshiney award upon me and my little dog too (thanks Margie) … I have bestowed a few of these myself and often liken them to the chain mail of the blogosphere… but I know they are given in the loveliest of intentions ( well except for maybe that whore one I got from Star!). SO THANKS! Hows that for a back assward thanks…I don’t mean it that way… I’m sure I will be around tonight…don’t know how long Im lasting these days but wouldn’t want to miss Fred MacMurray…love him! Im assuming you convinced Andy to bring the RItz crackers?
ack typos…
Oddly I noticed sunSHIRE when I read this and ignored it….
lol
like in the movie when the invisible man swaps the priceless diamond with the fake, the factor of invisibility (being so unlikely) makes people less alert and suspicious ya know?
and I did not intend the swap of the word Sunshire for Sunshine to, in any way, diminish the sincerity of the Award process… it’s just the word… (“…burns!! it burns!!”) lol
I’m not sure which of us is being more sensitive lately but I’m going to stop being so sarcastic for a little while. I was just joking with that last comment on my blog. Honest. I was just thinking about your confusion with the monkey comments from before what you probably don’t even recall. Either way I don’t mean to tweak you. So I’m going to just not be so pushy for a little while. As I said on my blog, I think my secondary is in full bloom right now. And I’m not really sure why but I hate him (well that’s not really true I do know why but I still hate him). But don’t tell the Rogers….I don’t wanna be insulting anyone.
zoe
no offense taken, no sarcasm heard (or) intended on my side, serially! the beauty part (as a someone once said) is that in the peer group (of clarks), while offense can be taken, responsibility for feelings most be assumed (by the feelee …lol) (granted, that’s still an ideal, but who better equipped to pull it off than clarks?)
I enjoyed your Post, and I enjoyed seeing myself see myself in a slightly different perspective, as that is an inevitable result of (any) attempt (successful or otherwise) to step into the worldview of the secondary or tertiary (speaking of my own actions and reactions, of course)
good comment! (as a forum/platform to explore this Doctrine in action, ya know)
Wait. If you did a video interview of the doctrine on a saturday nite call in, would it be all dark? Please don’t tell me you’re driving around with the interior light on…
LOL
Dang…I might just do that, though :D
Dark with sparkly little party lights affixed to the interior roof. You know, to shine down upon the voice that is the clark on a Saturday night:)
hey! how the hell did I miss this COmment? (actually I know how) we totally have to do a Saturday Night Interview… let me know!
Hey, breaking the rules – go for it!
Glad you brought that up. The identification of a clark, scott or roger via the written word.
I too find it relatively easy to spot the rogers. Comments in particular. It’s all in the “context” and the use of pronouns.
Not always easy deciphering the clark from the scott although I would guess that using words like “deciphering” would not be included in the scottian book of adjectives. lol
Sorry to have missed the Friday Vid Party but really….what a good example of a clark finding a simple thing “complicated/difficult”. Conversely, I can state with complete authority that clarks find the”difficult” things “easy”. A little Doctrine 101 there.
Thanks for the drive through the turf farms. Wasn’t even cold.
I think you do emotion just fine. Maybe it’s just me. And I think it’d be cool to be interviewed. Although I also think your writing is NOT boring…and I’d like to be interviewed. If I have the questions in advance, of course.
I’ll have my people call your people!
…(actually I would like to do this thing with you), the first question is ‘medium’… your being ‘local’ makes two options available. Telephone (through the Doctrine call-in number) and vid chat… give it some thought, the call in offers more flexibility in scheduling…you could be on your commute or pretty much anywhere you have cell service.
no questions in advance simply because, contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend huge amounts of time in preparation for Doctrine events, including interviews. I do, however, offer a choice of risk level (i.e. excitement potential): since this is not live, at the end of the interview you can say, ‘that sucked I hate it, don’t run it’ and it will be so (no edits are possible..on or off) or, …or!
no chance to change your mind but, you get to ask me questions in the final segment! (interviews are done in 3 or 4 3 minute episodes)
let me know!