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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 19, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise it has but one rule: make it Six Sentences, binyons

Prompt word:

DIP

“Honey, wake up,” the man heard his wife’s voice as if from a distance, the part of his brain that controlled dreaming, the metaphorical oblongata stirred into action, words became a howling wind, a hand gently-shaking his shoulder now a boulder of tremendous proportion and the very familiar there-not-there-there soft mass of her breasts the inevitable avalanche of a glacier, with just a hint of suffocation.

“Wow,” the man turned towards the woman; her waves of sleep-conspired hair tumbling off his face, pooling on his shoulder, even as their years together made the nano-scraping of her eyelashes on his throat a simple, if not affectionate demand he provide an explanation.

“You remember how, last night, I said I had nothing worth publishing in the Sis Sentence Story weekly bloghop,” awake now, he avoided the punctuation common to interrogatives, the writer-who-would-be-a-character rushed onwards with what he hoped would be a soliloquy…

“Yes, you were all grumpy and didn’t want to stay up and said something about dreaming up a story,” his wife’s interruption had sufficient arch to convince him to let go of his resentment at the lost allegory or whatever the term in rhetoric might be.

“Well, I gotta say, I had a dark and restless night,” they each laughed to themselves, the better to propel the narrative, “and I had the most amazing lucid dream / fan-fiction mashup ever; I found myself in an episode of Community knowing I had to write my story so I ran around an elementary school screaming how I needed a pen and paper; Annie Edison (Alison Brie) was there and she offered me one, complete with that uber-cute head tilt thing, but every piece of paper she gave me had writing on both sides, I was starting to get a little crazy,” the man, trying to raise his hand to prevent a comment, found it was trapped somewhere between his wife’s breast and arm was resigned to having to go full-on stream-of-consciousness, “And the first and second graders were running around and laughing when Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) burst through these double-doors like to an auditorium or cafeteria, with an older-but-still-hot woman on one arm and pointing at me, said with a triumphant rise in volume, “We’ll see you there tonight and don’t forget to bring…” and I shouted, “a good dip!!”

The man, turning towards his wife, further tourniquet-ing the couple to each other so almost all he had available to ask the big question were his eyes, desperate for approval but willing to settle for permission.

“Kinda meta,” the waterbed seemed to ebb an invisible inch of tide, “But I love the show so, I totally enjoyed your little story.”

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2sdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 17, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

As has been the case so often since this blog saw the 6500k light of its first virtual day, we have a Comment to prompt today’s Wakefield Doctrine post.

Damn! Sorry. Fell into visual mode there for a second. Kinda like the deep inhalations as one is pulled down under the waves, seeing how we’re about to go into beta reader mode. Agree to do this for a friend, ceayr from the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. He has asked me to accept the onus* of reading his current WIP. He’s quite the writer, his site (behind the link) has links to his published works. Check ’em out. (And don’t forget to tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.)

So, Mimi commented yesterday:

That could be fun. I know a few of them, it would certainly behoove me to identify a few more.

This was in response to yesterday’s Doctrine post. We replied:

it is…fun and the thing is the more you spot, the better at spotting them you become (‘better’ means quicker and/or with subtler cues)
in fact, the coolest thing about the beginning of the blog, when we first came into contact with clarks that were not exposed to years of hearing me talk about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, a most wonderful thing happened: with the basics provided (fairly primitively presented) clarks not only were able to identify people by their predominant worldview but immediately began to extrapolate on the principles which expanded our ‘vocabulary’ of the three personality types.

New Readers! Don’t worry about identifying a person’s predominant worldview right this moment, at the end of your metaphorical first semester. We related the story of the early years of the blog to make the point that, with sufficient reading of these pages, one becomes capable of seeing identifiers (of a person’s predominant worldview) that may not be listed here in these pages. The fun is in applying the three perspectives (how a person relates themselves to the world around them and the people who make it up) and discovering which is the ‘clearest’ lens on the person’s experience. And….and! quick Note: we’ve mentioned two ‘people’ here in today’s post. One of the first rules of the Wakefield Doctrine is that no one has authority to designate another’s predominant worldview. At least not with the expectation of it having any ‘force’. It is for the individual to determine. This is not to say we don’t have fun with ‘guess the worldview’ of people, usually prominent and/or famous folks. And even in this situation, the ‘hey, they are surely a...’ is meant for educational purposes (seeing how you better have some evidence to back up your claim and for entertainment purposes, i,e, Joe Pesci’s Nicky Santoro in Casino (the bar scene).

Damn! We’re out of time.

Don’t forget! The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them.

* onus Deliberately using this word rather than, “Hey! I got a favor to ask,” or, “You’re a good writer, do a brother a solid and beta this bad-boy?” because we are a clark. No, not because it’s a slightly unusual choice (well, ok, a little because) of words. We used it because it offers an opportunity for insight into the world of the Outsider (clarks). As a people we take three things way, way…fricken way too seriously**: 1) responsibility (of the personal, i.e. person-to-person variety) and B) the opinion of others, specifically of us. Now we gots to get back to the post (already in progress).

** how about, instead of ‘seriously’, we type ‘to heart’ Now there’s a damn post waiting to be written! lol

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Monday monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 16, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

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(Damn! nothin’ like screaming, “Hypo-youthful blogger!! Hypo-youthful blogger” (the reference to Marlin, of course))

oh, well.

Remember, New (and very likely, accidental) Readers: the Wakefield Doctrine is age neutral. As well as gender and culture neutral. All it takes is a sufficient level of one of the three predominant worldviews (in particular), to have this not only make sense, but to evoke a ‘Yeah, I can identify with that!’

And when you’re out there* in the world today, know that with an understanding of the three relationships of the Doctrine, you will be better equipped to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. (ProTip: if that appeals to you, you’re totally in the right place.)

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November 8, 2009

Congratulations to all of you who participated in our first ‘find the clark‘ Day! From what I am hearing, everyone had a very good time, (except the clarks, ;0) Interesting feedback most of it positive; although some of you rogers have commented that when you thought your herd had a clark ‘encircled’, the little scamp managed to slip between you somehow and made it into the underbrush. (“Can’t go there boss! nosir! theys scotts in dem woods!”)
Not to worry, roger, they’ll be back. It’s in the nature of clarks to be trusting, especially to those that seem so friendly. It’s been said that if you gain the trust of one of these mysterious beings, they will always be around…somewhere nearby. Always. Anyway, ‘find the clark‘ Day was just practice, a little warmup, if you will for the main event: ‘tag a scott’ Week!
Yes, you read that correctly, it is a whole week of fun.‘Tag a scott’ Week is 7 days because this little ‘walk on the wild side’ is meant to help us better understand not only the wily scott but also rogers. (Wait, did he just say’…also rogers?’)
(No way! OMG! we don’t have to go out there and look for scotts by ourselves do we?) (Yes roger, yes you do)So, a brief overview, quick Q&A and off you go…The quarry: scott

(A group of scotts is a pack, the ways of a pack speaks volumes to the nature of it’s members.
The pack will function as a group only for relatively narrowly defined goals/purposes. Securing food and defending territory.)

The scottian individual will, (upon entering any social environment), push everyone on the shoulder (figuratively or literally). This is done to elicit a reaction/response and thereby allowing (the scott) to establish ranking. Does the other person push back or not? If they do not, they are prey, if they do push back, then a quick struggle and the ranking in the pack determined. scotts will ‘work the room’, never staying in one group for too long.

This behavior is perceived as being very social, scotts are always the life of the party; but their actual purpose is to locate the other scotts, establish ranking and territory and then to the primary purpose of coming out: find the food.

The reason for this is that in the wild there are more rogers than scotts (or clarks, for that matter), so if we are looking for a scott, the easiest thing to do is identify their food source and go there. In the social wild, scotts will be found always on the move. You will rarely see more than two scotts in the same social setting, at least for any extended period of time. As has been said, scotts are the hunters, the predators.

So you say, “What are we to learn about rogers during tag a scott Week?”

Real simple. scotts like rogers, they like them anytime. Lunch time, dinner time, Snack time. For the more in-depth explanation of the relationship between scotts and rogers, you are going to have to ask (read all the pages first). So for the purposes of this little event, if you are tracking the wily scott, do what any hunter will do, go to where the food is, learn the routines, and wait patiently.

Just so no one out there thinks we at the Doctrine are denigrating rogers, let me remind you that we all have the qualities of all three forms, (clarks, scotts and rogers) and it is simply a predominance of one over the other that makes us what we are. There are not good or better types, each has its strengths and its weaknesses. In fact, the secret goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is, in fact, to find ways to develop full all three aspects. So let’s hear it for the girls…

rogers are not hunters, they are group/herd/social beings. rogers exist in the context of the group, the herd. rogers are the reason we have stable civilizations throughout history. They are the bookkeepers and the doctors, rogers are the engineers and the judges, without them we would not have rules of behavior, etiquette or polite behavior. Without rogers, scotts would be baying at the moon in a pre-historic environment.

So, go out there this week (starting Monday the 9th at 11:00 am (scotts hate the mornings) and ending at midnight Monday the 16th.

The rules are simple: identify the scott and come back with something they own.

(Without getting eaten)

* second ProTip: if you tend to think, upon waking, of the world as being ‘out there’… well, hello, clark. we’re very happy you could join us**.

** remind us tomorrow to explain that

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Flyday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 14, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, it is an image-prompt bloghop with the simplest of requirements: stories not to exceed 250 words.

[ed. thanks to ceayr in advance for giving me a chance to riff on his ‘Corn]

“If I see one more fuckin’ primitive, ‘oh-so-whimsical’ art display, I’m gonna break some shit up.”

Muttering out-loud produced the desired therapeutic effect. My first-year instructor at Langley used to insist, ‘Talk to yourself in public, sing Gilbert & Sullivan in the shower, whatever it takes, people. In the spy game, stress has killed more agents than bullets’.

So here I am making a pickup that should’ve been a cherry run for the nearest local agent: go to a gift shop in Grand Loch Banallity, find a red suitcase, find a jade camel figurine and deliver it to someone by the name ‘Raconteuse‘ at a bohemian nightspot called the SSC&B

“Who doesn’t love a voice-over?”

When I first turned to face the street and take a selfie to document the replaced Red Case, the only person in sight was a homeless man in a trench coat, rummaging through a trash-bin on the far sidewalk.

“Keith, don’t just stand there, take the lass’s phone so she can let her friends back home see fair Alba.”

Had the woman been wearing a Lee Penny around her neck and the white-haired man, a sporran, they couldn’t be more Highland tourists on an off-season holiday.

“Having a blether with yourself? Ain’t not a bad thing, hen.” She smiled with a glint of store-bought teeth.

I considered shooting them both, just on general principle; but at that moment two SUVs bracketed the old man and my retirees were whipping out serious side arms.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 14, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop ‘Spy vs Spy‘ by ceayr

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Pic ‘o the Week: ‘A Silver Box‘ by Chris

6) ‘hypo-grats’ yeah, sure, as an Item on a list for a gratitude bloghop, there might be the slightest risk of rhetorical infinite regression, but remember where you read it! lol. to our point (of including these) hypograts (check with Mimi for the true (and maturely expressed) definition) are one of the qualities this ‘hop has that, in theory, should open it to all for participation. You don’t have to be all grateful-all-the-time, just be possessed of an attitude that permits being open to alternative perspectives ya know?

7) Ola (photo at the top of the post)… our first dog, she exemplified the cool thing about the German Shepherd breed and the pitcha says it all… big smile, big teeth.

8) excessive rain… the pond is up to it’s more traditional (and pleasing to the eye) levels. the yellow lines? my efforts at noting certain areas that would not necessarily be evident after the ‘flood waters’ had receded. specifically the lowest point along the left edge and the point where the main stream of runoff splits left to right