Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
“I thought I had anticipated every possibility and worried because if things started moving too quickly, there was a chance that I would get blind sighted.”
How long has it been since we’ve heard a new rogerian expression? As I type, I’m trying to remember the source of this most excellent of rhetorical terrorism, courtesy of our friends-in-the-Herd. No luck, can’t remember where I read it, however, I do know that I recognized it instantly. There is that existential stutter followed by a burst of surprised laughter that is characteristic of a true rogerian expression.
On another note: I was talking to a scottian friend/work associate and one thing led to the other and, in the spontaneous (and totally metaphorical) wrestling matches that frequently occur when a scott is involved, came the following:
scotts act (in order) to think
clarks think (in order) to act
being a scott, she affected to not enjoy the insight that resulted. scotts have that innate sense of control and will not play games they are not totally familiar with, at least not for too extended a period of time.
This sort of reminds me of the fun of the early days of Doctrine posts, when everything was new and the excitement was everywhere. It was fun to write posts because the Doctrine was in full self-reveal mode. Someone would say something and the next thing we knew I’d be writing about how rogers have a very distinctive relationship with towels (the cloth type, bath towels mostly, all through dish towels are not totally innocent). And how scotts, when in public but not in the spotlight, will self-narrate their actions and behavior.
Thats back when 500 words was a decent length post.
Guess that’s about it.
…oh, yeah that post with the funny object in it, this weekend past? It was a candle molder.
and, in keeping with the retro-ness of today’s post, here’s a music video of a song that I’ve got stuck in my head.
About clarkscottroger
Aww, waxing nostalgic at the Doctrine. Hmm…but as I read, I had to think of expressions that clarks use. We often speak in metaphor, but I couldn’t think of any off the top of my head…For some reason, some Shakespearean play comes to mind with the line, “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps at this petty pace…to the last syllable of recorded time…”
In other musings…I wonder if clarks like music that’s different from rogers or scotts. The offbeat stuff? Yaaas! But I like “different” offbeat stuff like indie acoustic music. J does, too. Hmm…he’s a clark, too.
(I found myself debating brushing up and printing some old posts about rogers, specifically what we refer to as rogerian expression, which basically are a type of malapropism specific to rogers… better to say that those characteristic to rogers are very distinctive, as opposed to that of scotts… clarks hardly ever use the wrong, inappropriate or incorrect word or phrase.*
in any every the thing about rogerian expression is that they are not simply the wrong word (scotts do that, but they don’t particularly care)…. there is a subtle deliberateness to the incorrectness of the words that comprise a rogerian expression. and, as I alluded to, one of the primary identifiers of them is how people react when they hear it… a burst of shocked laughter.
there’s a bunch of them back in the page on rogers.
As to the music, I suspect that we like a greater variety because we do not have the pressures to like specific styles of music, as do rogers and scott. We tend to be both curious and adventurous in our view of music. off beat is a good thing for our people
* no, really, we don’t! look it up! lol
You’re such a Scott when you write about Roger.
Excellent rogerian expression😃