Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
You want to hear something funny? (How many times have we all heard that threat?) There is much to be aware of when it comes to jokes and the three worldviews that will serve us well in our efforts to better understand the people in the world around us. Mostly that we can laugh. That, as the old saying reminds us, ‘…the capacity to make jokes is what separates man from ….women’ (bar ump bump!! ) no! wait! I kid women, but this is no laughing matter.
This is abundantly clear in the case of scotts. scottian men are the best of joke tellers. (for them), jokes are the condiments, the way to spice up the prey. (no!, seriously! hear me out!) Go to a party (or any other social gathering), see that group of people laughing? at the center will be your scott and he will be telling jokes. not just any jokes! funny jokes. jokes that are nearly as funny in the ‘set up’, as they are in the punchline. And, if you stay long enough, you will see a curious thing happen. (Appropriate to the demographic of the people gathered around), the jokes of the scott will not only become funnier, they will become more… more outrageous, more scatological, more risqué (to borrow a word that will eliminate any doubts as to my own worldview). And, as we watch this group, you’ll see some people leave, offended by the jokes. and it matters not at all to our scottian joke teller. In fact, that’s kinda what he’s after. This telling of jokes to an audience at a social gathering illustrates a number of things about scotts: a) they are all about ‘being paid attention to’, 2) they are confident and c) they are looking to dominate their prey. And so the joke escalation continues until there is only a handful of clarks and maybe 2 rogers left.
(scottian females? oh, they’re funny too, but on a much more retail basis. they don’t need to attract their prey by telling jokes, their prey walks up to them, (if they’re rogers, and they mostly will be, they’ll have a salt shaker in one hand and a bottle of A1 sauce in the other…lol), and hopes to be selected. You’ve heard the expression: ‘like horseshoes and hand grenades? that’s jokes telling as exhibited by scottian women and scottian men.)
Won’t even try to provide a video sample of a scottian joke teller.
I will, however, provide examples of rogerian and clarklike joke tellers:
roger:
clark:
Watch this space for this Week’s TToT…later today. (Preview: one of the Items of Thankful will not be the ‘Anti-Meridian April Blog Challenge’)
(damn my over-exaggerated sense of playing by ‘the Rule’…even secret Rules I can’t add the link unless I at very least start the TToT List)
1) hypo-grateful for the Zhhee-heee-hee April BlogChallenge, getting less and less fun with each passing letter.
2) grateful that I have only 15 more letters to go!
3) grateful for Hospital exits. I visited someone who was in the hospital this week. Even as a clark, not known for feeling grateful and such, my gratitude was palpable as I walked out of the room and down the corridor and out of the building….
4) the work I do that is increasingly difficult (yeah, I’m sure there’s a Grat Item in that, saving it for later…)
5) SBoR/BoSR (chapter 4 sub section n.3) If the promise to return to complete the List is made prior to completing [said List] at least half of the list needs to be like written out and, …and! the numbers typed out so we don’t. like. forget or anything
6) (4:53)… brief interlude… went to a memorial service (which I tend to like the idea of, as opposed to the more traditional Wake-Funeral-Graveyard…. more for the living the departed, but then, what is the reality for everyone, (other than the deceased)…It (the service) was for someone who was a member of circle of friends that dates back to the early 80’s. Amazing how much there is between today and 1980! Probably the closest I’ll every get to a High School Reunion…
7) not snowing and half comfortable air temperature… totally grateful for that
8) grateful for my co-hostinae and their support for my valiant effort at the A-B-Me April blog Challenge, the part that is giving most of the difficulty is not the writing (of a Post), it coming up with a word with the correct letter. (Don’t tell anyone. But this morning? I wrote about 450 words on the topic ‘Infer’…. yeah, I know)
9) hey!! hey! Lizzi!!! (you want to see a GV get totally swept off her ethereal feet, by a gesture of daring and affection? I took a video and, as Tony Montana said, “this is my gift to you” (to that new GV, ya know?)
10) 1.3!!
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Aha! I am FRIST. Better tell me I am, dammit!
you damn are
Love both of these guys! Very funny stuff! Needed the laughter :D
Could Steven be mistaken for anything other than a clark? lol
I loved the comedy. “How many men does it take to change a TP roll?” No one knows. Yeah, and that challenge. I’m just realizing why they didn’t name it “A-Z Blogging Fun.”
lol (on both points)
Ha! Way to tell a good joke at the end of a post about joke-telling, Val!
Waiting for the Rogerian joke teller!!!
they (rogers) tend to be more subtle, an congenial and homey and such.. I really enjoy the guy (Jim Gaffigan) that I have representin for the rogers…
Hypo-gratful. You, my friend, are a wordsmith indeed.
why thank you!
ERGH still not worried by the roger’s jokes. I mean, they were funny and all but…eh…and the DELIVERY of whatsisface the other one…OH. MY. GOSH! I’m all about the scottian jokes.
PRECARIOUS RULE, my friend. The 7 are pacing. I think they think you cheated.
I’m glad you walked out.
(…have added a couple….nothing to impress a GV….but that new one, she seems to have a weakness for the massively muscled, totally cerebral, hot and smart guy like that Wakefield Doctrine progenitor clark, guy, ya know?)
*grins* Is THAT SO! ;)
So what you’re saying is we need to replace the new virgin?
Believe it or not, as a kid I was an excellent story teller. I remember being at a party and entertaining the entire table of adults. Nowadays, not so much. Keep up the letters, Clark!
I’m so so glad you’re not getting any more snow. That was some B.S. this winter!
Sorry for your loss, and I agree with you about memorial services. And they ARE more for the living, our much-needed closure, for one thing.
Glad you made it to J, you’re almost halfway home!
Jim Gaffigan is a Roger? Did not know that.
I consider him my Spirit Animal, would have thought him Scotian.
Two of my favorite comedians! Especially Jim Gaffigan. I follow him on Twitter, too.
I cannot imagine WHAT you’re talking about when you say a Scott tells a joke or funny story and gets more and more outrageous as it goes…
I don’t know this horseshoe-handgrenade reference. Yes, it’s good to leave a hospital.
#3 and #6– sounds like a rough week.
#3 has turned out better than expected, the person (being visited is doing well)…and the feeling, not just gratitude, but appreciation of what is…. that is a gift in return for the trip into one of my least favorite places…hospitals.
6 was as those events are… reflection and seeing from a perspective that only a funeral seems to be able to provide.
first time ever read jokes on a blog .. :)
ah! ( I will resist the obvious scottian riposte ….must resist), yeah we do try to have fun here at the Doctrine…tell me, which (did you) find funnier? Jim Gaffigan or Steven Wright?
I wonder if camping could be improved by adding bacon. Although it might attract more bears. Sorry for your loss and happy that this miserable winter is (finally) over. The use of the SBoR/BoSR is always a plus to any TToT list! Have a great week!
…to borrow from Jim, what wouldn’t be improved by adding bacon (no! yeah, even that*!)
*Speaking only for my people**
** the inhabitants of Y Chromia, of course
Laughing my ass off at the cow video. Seriously.
lol yeah