Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Good discussion in the Comments section, of late. And the Official Doctrine answers are: yes, yes, no, well, if you mean with clothes on, no, are you out of your fuckin mind, yes, yes (and lastly), I’m sorry, you must be at the wrong blog, I think the one you want is over at http://www.ammobroads’nbeer.com … or maybe you need to stop at http://www.crocketingcondomssayingIloveyouwithtwopointysticks.com
alright, now that I have that out of my system. lets get down to the basics:
the demographic of Readers here is beginning to show a trend to the scottian, a surprising but welcome development. the core Readership remains (female) clarks (and possibly male clarks, but they choose to remain unidentified… for reasons still not understood.) I suspect I know why, of course, but I will refrain from saying what I think (well, duh!).
Well, if that’s the case, then clearly we need to address our scottian Readers!
To begin with, we all know that you have to decide for yourself which of the three worldviews is your predominant, in other words are you a scott or a roger or a clark. This Rule was originally intended to prevent Readers from getting all….rogerian on new Readers, like “well, look at the new clarklike females! woo hoo hey girl you want to come over and watch some Ken Burns documentaries sometime?” The Rule still obtains, it is not only for each of us to decide which personal reality we are in, but it is also part of the process of Learning the Doctrine. However….
…seeing how we’re talking about our scottian Readers, this Rule is not quite so necessary. lol not that you can’t make scotts do things, but ‘needing to be protected from rogers‘??!! not so much.
OK enough of the intro. Lets talk about scotts:
- mercurial as our friends over at Free Miriam say: “…characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood”
- natural leaders… this is an often overemphasized quality. the reason why scotts are considered good, natural leaders is because they are not given to ambiguity, they make a decision, done! people believe that ‘certainty equals correct choice’… god bless ’em.
- scotts act, clarks think, rogers feel
- confident (see: ‘natural leaders’) (there’s an old saying at the Doctrine: ‘scotts are often wrong, but they are never un-certain’)
- (keeping the ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’ Rule in mind): scotts make excellent surgeons but not good physicians, cops but not firefighters, madams but not working girls, Teachers of the very young or the hormonally be-sotted (pre-school or high school, of course), a rough carpenter but not a finish carpenter, a Defense Attorney but not Prosecutor, a soldier but not a politician
- the social identity of the scott is the pack, as a predator, scotts prefer to work alone but will, should circumstances dictate, gather with other scotts for a common (albeit) temporary purpose
- you can spot the scott in any social gathering, they will ‘work the room’… the scott will challenge everyone ‘in the room’, literally (in the case of male scotts) pushing them on the shoulder or figuratively as often the case with scottian women
- (at a party): the male scott will have a circle of people around him and he will be telling one funny joke after another, becoming more and more outrageous with each joke, the female scott will have a circle of male attendees, accreting like layers of coral… mostly rogers, of course they will have a clarklike female friend nearby. this friend will not be a part of her immediate dynamic, rather she (the female clark) is used to shed the rogers and re-assure the scott that there is something that she has not thought/said/done a thousand times before… she makes the rogers laugh, her clarklike friend makes her laugh…. (sort of a Le Trou Normand in a social sense of the word).
Ok that’s it for today!
to our scottian friends: Christine and Dyanne and Stephanie and Jean and Ms AKH and glenn and Alex Crabtree hey thanks for…. where the hell did they go?
well first of all I am firts.
How about good detallers? I can wax a car better than anyone I know, I mean really wax a car the classic way, No kidding. I learned in my early 30s and my Pacer (a black 1975 with Bose speakers I installed) glistened like a black diamond in the sun–CAR LOVE
jehny
jny
good example of the ‘everyone does everything…’Rule all three could do a good job as detailers but how a (clark) or a (scott) or a (roger) would relate themselves to the work is where the difference will be found
Oh! I love to learn this stuff! thanks!
Finally! Something to do with me! Something that makes sense! :D
Christine
lol… that’s one of things that makes you people so much fun!
Hmph, well that’s NOT me. How about a bulleted character list for clarks and rogers?
Sarah
good thought… do you have a preference of which one first?