Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Kýrie, eléison is what I have for the Letter ‘K’ and a reasonable person might ask, “why clark? lord have mercy, that’s an odd choice.” I searched for words that began with ‘K’ and, if the truth be known, a good supply of cool words that begin with the letter ‘K’, among which are kelvin, Knesset and kumquat. Unfortunately they all felt… contrived. Sure, the Wakefield Doctrine has no limits in application, it is, after all, simply a perspective on the world around us. The Wakefield Doctrine, for all it’s claims to efficacy of predicting behavior and choices and it’s, at times frightening internal consistency (e.g. that scotts have short attention spans, that clarks tend to mumble and …and! that rogers make up the majority of those bicycle herds that will be seen increasingly as the winter melts into Spring, all riding along the road in overly-expensive bicycles, wearing spandex covered in corporate logos with a ridiculous amount of equipment, including but not limited to: water bottles (yeah, plural more than one…what, are they planning on riding across a desert?? there’s a at least 2 Cumberland Farms and 1 McDonalds along their route!)…that and a silly mirror attached to their aerodynamic helmets (“g forces encountered!! we’re approaching 23 miles per hour…hang on!!) and lastly, they wear what can only be described as…. (whats the name of certain type of lingerie… chamosille? negligé ?) they will have those fanny packs on their belt, around the small of the back…. god! who other than a male roger would wear such a thing??)
… sorry. So, back to the dearth of ‘K’s. (I did find a last minute reference to ‘ki’ which is a variation of ‘chi’ which is something that those of us who have delved into the world of martial arts find totally interesting. But, alas, too late.)
Why Kýrie, eléison? Well, the odd thing was that this was not a word from a look-up list. It’s a memory fragment of growing up catholic, back in the day of Latin Masses. And, of all the non-understood phrases, refrains and liturgical responses, that made up a mass, Kyrie remains my memory. Today was the first time I went to the trouble to look it up. From our friends at ‘the wikipedia’:
Kyrie, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε (Kyrie), vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), on whose meaning see Kyrios (biblical term), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the Kyrie eleison /ˈkɪəri.eɪ ɨˈleɪ.ɨsɒn/ (Greek: Κύριε, ἐλέησον, Kýrie eléison, “Lord, have mercy”)
… ‘Lord have mercy‘ got the Delta blues intonation immediately.
The theme of my ‘A-to-what?! April Blog Challenge’ is the Wakefield Doctrine, so I better say a word about the Doctrine, no? religion: clarks are spiritual, rogers are religious and scotts are the reason we say, ‘Lord have mercy!’
* ever notice that you never see a herd of bicyclists stopped at a, like, Cumberland Farms or 7 11?
About clarkscottroger
That bicycle thing cracks me up. I like a ride for fun, I took one yesterday. But that herd of riders, in beehive yellow and electric red that meet up at the park, ride all together and think they are actually cars and take over the road, really piss me off. Namaste, and FRIST.
yeah… they are such rogers (except the ones that are trailing far behind and wearing regular clothes and an expression that conveys, ‘why did I think riding in a group would be fun’ who are likely clarks and the ones in the front who are wearing spandex to best effect and the rogers keep trying to ride next to… jostling each other for position… yeah, scottian female)
Fa….rist!
Wow. What horrible part did a bike rider play in your past? ;)
I don’t know how I missed that you grew up Catholic. There are some pretty ways of singing the Kyrie, but I am so thankful they did away with the all-Latin mass.
Christine
you know you’re right! there was no such thing as bicyclists when I was growing up! we rode bikes…we didn’t cycle and only one kid (in any given group) had an ‘English bike’ that had 3!! gears and hand brakes!
I had a Schwinn and I also tricked it out with playing cards, if you really must know…lol helmets??!!?
I took Latin until the 10th grade… still don’t know any… Thankyou Sister Agnes Lorretto… I mean that sincerely… she’s the only reason I took Latin in tenth grade!
” clarks are spiritual, rogers are religious and scotts are the reason we say, ‘Lord have mercy!’” love this characterization!
it was/is certainly a very….orderly language.
(note time. ayiee… talk about falling behind)
Sounds like you’re really busy at work. ..no biggie with the blogging. …rough time to be blogging daily though I bet.
Excellent music choice. Excellent. Damn.
Yo dumbass Kristi starts with K.
Yeah Clark! (Good one Kristi. Good one. LOL )
Hahaha snort hahaha!
bahahahaaaaaa!
…the thing about scotts, right? lol
So I’m NOT Catholic and I thought you were writing about that Mr. Mister song from 1986….