Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop, created by Lizzi, following a walk alongside storm-battered cliffs, on the Manchester-Manchester England seacoast. Little did she realize how in a scant eight or eleven years, the bloghop that did speak it’s name would be hosted by Dyanne.

Now, at the beginning of the second decade in the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the gathering of words would continue.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which permits, (albeit, grudgingly), the remainder of this list of grats to qualify under a set of rules that would put the Queen of Hearts to shame, i.e.  the use of hypograts. This refers to those people, places and things that occur to all of us, whether we want them to or not. (Mostly not). But the BoSR/SBoR maintains that we are all gifted with the transformative power of perspective. Which allows us to put things into a context that nets out positive.

4) The difference Time makes. Category: Harmless unless, that is, the question is asked, ‘But what other biases and prejudices are the necessary foundation for any given humor. (Precursor conditions of audience: sub-adolescent Y-Chromian, coming to age on the Eastern shore of Oceania.)

Exhibit 1:

5) The difference Time makes. Category: the foibles of previous generations hang on to the umbilical of nostalgia in the seemingly-innocuous panels of newspaper cartoons. Freely-available insight into the reality of different times in a given culture, if such would be your interest. And although it is very much ‘preaching to the elect’, all one need do is look back at what passed for humor, entertainment and standards for social interactions. Though we very much caution: it’s easy to think, ‘We’ve certainly developed as a society, we don’t have gladiatorial spectacles, at least not so far as to actually kill people in the process’. However, if we but look to recent history (20th Century), it’s quite apparent how tenaciously the past holds us in thrall.

Exhibit 1: Dagwood Bumstead, abused at work, with a King Kong of food obsessions. The guy can’t catch a break! His boss, Julius Dithers, has actually kicked Dagwood across the office; granted, Dagwood was sleeping at his desk. But still. And Blondie, totally passive aggressive enabler, has a catering business. Denial much?

6) the serial stories, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) the Six Sentence Story The place for flash fiction…as a writer or a Reader

8) this year’s Garden of the Triffids (so far)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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