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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “We interrupt this post about rogers with a video of a clark!!

August 16, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Seeing how we’ve apparently gotten into a ‘Before They were Famous’ series of RePrint posts, let’s finish it up with an earliest post on rogers.

Damn! A lot of posts have our Herdonian brethren as primary thematic focus if not the clear topic/subject matter. Let’s go with this one, as we have a Six Sentence Story to ‘find’.

“Sing a song of Sixpence, a pocket full of rye…” what is it about rogers and the Past? the Wakefield Doctrine pauses, reflects and offers you Pie*

January 26, 2012

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Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
Baked in a pie.*

* Many interpretations have been placed on this rhyme. It is known that a 16th century amusement was to place live birds in a pie. An Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) contained such a recipe: “to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up” and this was referred to in a cook book of 1725 by John Nott.^[1]^[2] The wedding of Marie de’ Medici and Henry IV of France in 1600 contains some interesting parallels. “The first surprise, though, came shortly before the starter—when the guests sat down, unfolded their napkins and saw songbirds fly out. The highlight of the meal were sherbets of milk and honey, which were created by Buontalenti.
( source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence )

Well, didn’t they know how to have fun back in the 1600’s ? ( ” Hey, Ephesus!! dude, yo when her Majesty the Queen Mother sees the birds fly up from the table, she will surely impart a smile upon thee…dawg” )

Be that as it may, today we talk about the thing that rogers have for the Past. Lets dispense with all the work of constructing a well-crafted narrative and get all Bullet Pointy on this bad boy! So, ‘The Past’ and the rogers? Welll…we’ll have you know that:

rogers live for the Past (as scotts live in the Present and clarks live for the Future)

most ‘Historians’ are clarks and yet rogers are the people who you think of when you are interested in knowing something old, or out of date or archaic, what the hell!

the more involved the family tree, the more you need a roger, and not just because they love Yellow #2 Pencils**

in order to maintain a coherent history, you must have an internal consistency… rogers love repeating patterns

the past is ‘a place’ that rogers know they can be alone and by themselves, at least for a little while

hey, it’s really rather simple! …the farther back in time a tradition or a practice or a dogma extends, the bigger the herd that has come to be associated with it and, like scotts…for rogers ‘more is more’! …following is the epitome of this ideal:

…Ken Burns…

This quality of the rogerian personality type is one of the most positive and essential, not only to the rogerian people, but to mankind as a whole. It has often been said that rogers are responsible for society and a (certain) continuity of civilization, without which we would all still be living on the savannah…darting down to the stream in the evenings nervously keeping one non-stereoscopic eye on the treeline, alert for the sudden movement of a scott! As a matter of fact. I was talking to a rogerian friend, Valerie about the Doctrine and the positive contributions of her people to life and I put it this way, “Yes scotts are active and loquacious and really get things done, but would you want to fly across the country on a plane designed and built by a scott?”

I believe at that moment, Valerie understood and become proud of her people***

Tomorrow is Friday so get your ears out, it is Video Friday!!

** …and nice, clean, full-sized #2 Pencils! certainly not what you would find in your hands if you made the mistake of asking a scott for a pencil!! (think teeth-marks, stubby and prone to smudge)

*** which emotion, of course, was immediately transformed into a sense of fervent righteousness and a total conviction of the deficiency of all non-herd members

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 15, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Well, yesterday’s early post on the topic of clarks was fun. Let’s see if’n we can’t find one on scotts of a similar vintage. As everyone other than the first-time Reader knows, scotts are the second of the three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. (The three, for the benefit of the first-time Reader, are: clarks (Outsiders) scotts (Predators) and rogers (the Herd Members). Each, while maintaining a common heritage and an innate potential to combine synergistically, designates a characteristic (and distinct) relationship between the individual and the world around them and the people how make it up.

scotts, as a predominant worldview are probably the most fun, in a ‘Sure, I have enough in my checking account to make bail, whaddya have in mind for tonight?’ sorta a way. But, I don’t want to step on any lines that our twelve-years-younger author may have for us in the ‘print.

“Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the head”… M. Tyson

March 6, 2011

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )If you think we are going to make fun of Mr. Tyson, you are wrong. …and you are a scott.

Which is all we need to jump start this here Post here…scotts

scotts ( sk’-ott ) ( !! )
n.

the second of the three personality types comprising the Wakefield Doctrine

a person born in a section of the UK ( country referred to as United Klingons)

scottian ( sco’- shun)
adj.

to be aggressive, either physically or socially

to be quick-tempered, mercurial

to act in an impulsive, yet confident manner

the scottian personality as defined in the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is the personality type for whom the world is a jungle, literally and/or figuratively. scotts live in a world of predator and prey, hunter and hunted, a world in which the only meaningful social order is that of ranking; as most pack animals do, the scottian personality is constantly challenging the others in the (social) environment to see who is dominant and who is submissive.

We kid scotts, but they are not only fierce and aggressive ( the scottian male ) and attractive and fierce ( the scottian female persons), they are loyal and highly protective friends. Of course, the word protective is rather close to possessive, so if you are a member of a scotts‘ pack you can expect a certain degree of direction (from the pack leader).
Now it is Sunday and we really are not going into a long, technical, clarklike, boring exegesis of the scottianpersonality types. But then we are ‘leading the Post’ with Mike, so we would be remiss if we did not talk a little about our scottian friends. to wit:

If you have a scottian friend then you are most likely a clark; if you are the friend of a scott, you are roger….and if you don’t know what this means, then you are a scott.

As with the other two types, our description of the scottian personality is exaggerated for purposes of illustration and identification and dramatization. Never, ever, forget that the Wakefield Doctrine is built on the fact that we all have the potential of the three personality types and it is only a predominance of one (over the other two) that makes us clarks or scotts or rogers. Further, those of you who are still reading this have a certain…proclivity…flexibility of intelligence that makes reading these Posts fun. Most people, no matter if they are clarks or scotts or rogers can see beyond their own realities sufficiently to allow for the Doctrine to be the thing of beauty that it is for many of us.

Lets wrap this up, for now. You all probably expect a Joe Pesci or Jack Nicholson video clip to serve as illustration, but you would be totally wrong.
We need to not ignore them scottian female people. Well, we can ignore them but the results would be…less than that attractive…but wait a minute! that all depends if the ‘ignorerer‘ is a clark or (another) scott or a roger. While it is beyond the scope of this Post to delve into the scottian females’ response to frustration…suffice to say it would be exciting. Simply know that scottian females are as aggressive and impulsive and confident and as stupid (at times) as are their male counter-parts. They just look better (to half the population) doing it.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Simplest of search parameters for today’s eponymous post.: the earliest 14th of August available.

Full Disclosure: Interesting search results. This (Publish)Date yielded what seems an inordinately-high level of August fourteenths. No, we didn’t survey, correlate, gather, analyze and dramatize the numbers. (My rogerian aspect is tertiary and quite faint. You’re welcome to go and do the research with your sines, cosine chi squares and margins of error. Really?!? Margins of Error?!?! Who other than our Herd brethren would include the precise measure of how wrong they are in their calculations as making the product of their effort more convincing!?)

Seriously.

That said, this post is about the Outsider. We’d be risking the perception of exaggeration (by our Readers) if we were to now digress into what it is about the ‘Margin of Error’ concept that would make a sane person want to throw the keyboard down on the ground. So, we will not. If you really want to know, ask in the Comments.

be more of a clark? on purpose? are you serious?!? the Wakefield Doctrine

August 14, 2012

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We all know that:

clarks think

scotts act

rogers feel

(and) ..we all know that scotts are the confident ones, they are the ones who do not hesitate to act, scotts are the natural leaders and when they shout to the group (and there is always a group around them), when it comes into the head of a scott to move, to act, to do something (because they are bored) and they say, “Hey!! Lets go this way! (most) people follow immediately, without hesitation or question.

(and) we all know that rogers are the confident ones, they are the ones who know all about the matter at hand, the whys and the wherefores and most importantly, they know about who else has been/is/or will be involved in the activity that you are curious about, rogers are the organized ones and when they say, “You should do it this way, (most) people will follow (the directions).

So what about the clarks?

(well) everyone knows that clarks are:

possessed of/by/with a really great sense of humor, well …better make that a rather odd sense of humor

a very caring and sensitive person, well …at least once you get to know her and not be put off by the weirdness

smart, so smart that its, well …not smart in terms of grades or day-to-day real life decisions, but in every otherway!

organized, has everything in his head, well organized on some level but if you need to remember something you said last year or the name of the actor in a 23 year old movie!

attractive, well not in what you might call the conventional way, but when you see how she offsets the tattoos with the boots and it, somehow ties together, kinda spooky actually

creative really more than anyone, well if creative is about the things that never were and will never be, then you have the right person

intuitive, she has a way of, well, I think she holds back how much she understands

weird well duh!

If you are (still) reading, then you are what we call a scott or a roger or a clark with a certain level of flexible intelligence*… and in an effort to increase the odds that you will continue reading, we will say this: if you are a scott then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect and if you are a roger, then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect. As you know, while we all develop as one predominant type (clark or scott or roger ) we always retain the capacity to experience the world as the ‘other two’ types. We call these two types the secondary aspect and the tertiary aspect. They have an effect on how you express your predominant personality type, but that is beyond the scope of this here Post here. Suffice to say, if you are not a (predominant) clark, then your secondary aspect most likely is clarklike because it is the insatiable curiosity and tolerance of the unknown that keeps you reading, despite all your instincts to the contrary.

So about the music that follows… the fun of totally enjoying a song by Bill Monroe, then hearing something like the Fred Hammond tune from yesterday’s Post and then having ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’ come on the radio and smiling for the pure joy of the wonderful and horrifying variety of things to appreciate that is available to you, when you are a clark.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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Will mow, if it ever stops raining.

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

As per the rules, below are Ten Things (and places and people and lifeforms) that elicit in us a state of gratitude.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) writing (researching a Reply to a comment by Nick yesterday, went back to the Character Page from ‘Missing Starr’ saw that I was, at that time clearly aware of the need for stripper names if I were to continue writing about the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club & Lounge. (I know I’m over-selling this joke but! the note was, ‘this dancer starts her routine coming out on stage dressed as a nun: Jessica Habit’)

damn! I wish I was still that funny.

6) Mimi for riding shotgun on my semi-obsessive, thoroughly unsanctioned post (lol)

7) Una’s Garden of Confused Proliferation

A reverse view (from the correct right-to-left reading orientation). Hey, theys trying!

8) something, something

9) Department of Education and Senior Canines (old dogs, new tricks?) I prefer my days be organized by way of lists on yellow-lined pads, (first photo). But they clearly decided that I needed to up my game and could find only the type in the second photo. No promises. Gonna try.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

August 11, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted by Denise, it is governed by one and only one Rule, (the ‘hop, not the host): make that story exactly six sentences in length.

Full Disclosure: this is a ‘true Six’. At the start of writing yesterday’s Six, (having Lou as a character in it, what can we say, ‘easy-peasy’ am I right?). Trouble was, I got the beginning of a song in my head that insisted it should be included. Only the first ten notes. Turns out I guessed the group who did the song correctly, but the song itself, incorrectly. Today we have the correct song (by Cream).

… and a thoroughly weird-assed Six Sentence Story.

This week’s prompt word:

SEAL

“”Thank god, I know the name of the song!!”

The other Proprietors, (not counting jenne or Ford or Chris, who were on sabbatical, furlough and sick leave, respectively), were standing in a semi-circle at the edge of the small stage nearest to the bar; they were facing an object emitting a multi-colored light that: imparted a carnelian hue to the Gatekeeper‘s face, like a sunrise in the Carpathian mountains; sent a pale cast of celadon to the Barkeeper, making one think of nested porcelain dolls; Mimi, who stood between the bar and the small group, owing to her leaving her Off-White sneakers (with the lifts) at her stool, had to accept a pale blue halo; Tom just stepping out of the kitchen was hypnotized by a spare ray of gold, rendering him speechless, but he still managed to turn to shield his guest, Nancy, who, having been shanghaied by the short-order-chef of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, had the protection of her white garb to reflect all spectra, save a spare rose beam.

The tall, thin man moved with surprising urgency from the entrance of the hallway that lead to the Managers office even as Hunga tilted his head in that uniquely-canine, non-verbal interrogative, which caused the Manger to cease his frantic progress to the empty-except-for-the-necessary-to-get-away-with-the-narrative, people, crouch to offer a Mini Milk Bone© to him; the dog accepted the gift but raised his ears at the repeating ten notes the well-dressed man was humming.

“Wait! I get the next choice of song… No, you had the turn before last… Yeah, but I have a cigar…. sure, but have you noticed I’m holding one of those little, curved knifes that heaven-only-knows is the preferred utencil for slicing lemons… well, (from back at the bar), I’ll see your lemon knife and raise you a…..a. colandar!!! (err, I’m new here, but does that make any sense?)… Please, everyone will get a chance to pick a song from the new jukebox (the letters scrolled in an obviously-strained, yet ultimately patient manner across the computer display set on the small stage... I believe the man who established this patently-contrived, if-not-undeniably-good-natured-premise should have first pick...”

…the small crowd of virtual people became silent in their assent to the wisdom.

....but then, I’m next and I’m going with S7 Seal’s Kiss from a Rose!

The tall, thin manager stepped up to the glass of the jukebox, his reflection in the glass front a portrait of inexplicable relief and the hint of a smile that lingered like a memory fragment of a time too long ago.