clarkscottroger | the Wakefield Doctrine

odd bodkins, indeed!

August 17, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

A short Post today, just enough to outline the (Doctrine) schedule for the remainder of the month and start our First Annual Outreach Drive. Seeing that the school year at Mill Fill High starts on the first (week)day after Labor Day this year, the first Official Day of Classes is Tuesday September 7th.

The Outreach Drive begins today and ends on the Friday of Labor Day weekend (September 3rd).

Not too late to sign up for the Mill Fill Pep Club (motto: “hey, hey, we are truly enthusiastic”!!)

Wakefield Doctrine 2010 Out Reach Program!
Hats for new Readers! Any new Readers submitting a Comment during the next two weeks will be entitled to a (nearly*) free hat (for your damn head)! Just write a Comment and the rest will be, “tan fácil como caerse de un tronco” as the new Exchange Students from the Autonomous Region of Madrid might say! Speaking of Exchange Students, next time you at the Doctrine, Madridians yo, drop us a note! We could sure use some photos of your regular “High School” (you know the one that stays mainly in the plains, where classes start 8 hours ahead of Mill Fill High.

Other features and creatures in the works: you got any suggestions for Instructional Youtube videos, let us know; school jackets? anyone up for a Wakefield Doctrine Varsity Jacket? might be a bit on the expensive side, but what the hell, huh? (In our demographic we should be spending money, not saving it!)

Hey binyons, get a gander at this:

Now I say that every and any Reader would destroy their hopes for a fulfilling career and satisfying family life in exchange for such a Jacket! Tell me I’m lying, go ahead somebody tell me that I am not telling the truth. Now, don’t get me wrong. We cannot afford to give these away like hats, but seriously, yo who would not be glad to find such apparel in their own damn closets?

Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day That one of the three (clarks, scotts or rogers) did not get into High School sports is too easy to even bother asking. But the follow-up question of who was most likely to wear such clothing, this question…she is not so easy! (In fact, for double points speak to the question of gender. Of the three which of the three: clarklike female, scottian chick or rogerian girlie, which of these dames would be most likely spotted in such jackets….(how they came about wearing it is left as an extra credit question, yo.)

Damn, this is exciting. We ‘ave the hats (our heads are already damned) can it be there are jackets in the future?
(Important buzz kill announcementation: the above seems to cost on the order of $225.00 or so…so some Readers may need to start saving now! other Readers, why they will simply laugh and say (to no one in particular) ” Piffle…I shall order two…one to wear and one to drape on my shoulders…hah!”

So let us sing something enjoyable and go out and find an extra job (or some new stock to invest in), or maybe even buy that “Get Rich in Real Estate while appearing to be a transsexual person of indeterminate Gender” Book that the “person” sells on TV while standing in that totally fake looking library room.

(Hey glenn…throw away the first email you are inclined to send in…then (if you can think of something no one has said or thought about the Doctrine in the high school milieu), you are welcome to send it in…)

*nearly free means that you must send in a photo of the hat in front of a recognizable (local) landmark, supporting (damn head) is totally optional.

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Buy No Milk. Stop Max’s Hippy Music Festival

August 16, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

Given the apparent demographic of the readership of the Wakefield Doctrine, what else would we do a Post on today, other than the anniversary of “three days of filth and harmony” that was the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival? I know I wasn’t there, but given the reports from my contemporaries (at the start of the 1969 school year), the only people that I knew who didn’t attend Woodstock was me and my mother. (And I cannot account for her whereabouts for most of Saturday and a good part of Sunday.)

I’m sure the blogosphere is bursting at it’s digital seams with Posts commemorating this event, seeing how those of us from that era that still have (most) of our faculties are now in possession of the megaphone of the 21st Century, i.e. a blog. Unfortunately for us, the format of this blog does not lend itself to clever word-play relating to our subject. (with the exception of the “filth and harmony” expression, which I will lay claim to, no doubt along with 85% of my contemporaries). But hey let’s try anyway!

….”by the time I got to Woodstock,
I had half my brain still left.”…

Yeah, well maybe I should leave the clever wordplay to someone else, I was there man!

And for the record? The expression “far out” (and) “far out, man” was used as repetitiously as Arlo makes it sound.

Hey out of time (for now).

You know, been thinking about the participation levels around here and I remembered that I recognise that if people are given something for nothing, they tend to place about that value on the thing. So…you want clever Post here?

(….be my guest)

(btw clarks, while not recognised by that name at the time, would have {in fact, did} totally rejected the herd mentality (read: rogerian) as evidenced by the whole peace, love and understanding bullshit.)

So you want more of a Post? Then go ahead and send in the material…(I will paste into a Post-like format)

First up some corraborating information for DownSpring glenn’s Comment:

“In April 1969, newly-minted superstars Creedence Clearwater Revival were the first act to sign a contract for the event, agreeing to play for $10,000. The promoters had experienced difficulty landing big-name groups prior to the Bay Area swamp rockers committing to play. Creedence drummer Doug Clifford later commented “Once Creedence signed, everyone else jumped in line and all the other big acts came on.” Given their 3 a.m. start time and non-inclusion (at Creedence frontman John Fogerty’s insistence) in the Woodstock film, Creedence members have expressed bitterness over their experiences at the famed festival.” (wikipedia 2010)

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Myers Briggs and the Four Temperaments

August 8, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

Was not planning to file/write/submit/put-the-damn-thing-out-there a Post today. As our Readers recall, we are in a period of transition. But habits are difficult to break, (btw the Wakefield Doctrine addresses that issue and offers methods that are more effective than anything you have encountered, but that’s not important now), in any event, I was out surfing, looking to see how the other 99% live and write, when I came upon a website listed simply as: Myer Briggs and the Four Temperaments.
(If you do not have an instant mental image of psychiatrists in matching blue tuxudos, you are in the wrong place.)

Damn.

The talk around the Doctrine is, of course, centered on whether or not we succeed in the 90 Day Challenge. That and whether Cynthia steps up and requests a hat (for her damn head). Speaking of heads (damn) and hats (supported by same), Ronin should have received his own Wakefield Doctrine hat (for his own damn head) by now, we are looking forward to seeing his photos. Arguably the hardest working blogger in the ‘sphere, Ronin manages to combine the “don’t-engage-in-eye-contact-and-we-might-get-by-him-without-a-complete-diatribe” of the old fashioned street corner preacher with a genuine, “screw-the-fancy-lingo,-I-just-want-to-do-something-good-for-people,-even-total-strangers” kind of good nature that is not so common in today’s culture. You should go read his blog, A Day in the Life of a Rneaos Renalaceance, Reahiina…the Ronin blog

Speaking of blogs, we might be trying our hand at more topical subjects in the coming days. In the context of the Doctrine naturally, but it seems like the right time to try something a little different. Readers know that this blog is so a work-in-progress, serving both as a platform for “analyzin and dramatizin” the Wakefield Doctrine and at the same time providing the “proof of validity” of what we are presenting, Doctrine-wise. Sort of like the Wonder Years, but funny. You know, “hey everyone I have this really neat thing we can do for fun, but it will also help you improve yourself, lose weight, ditch that deadbeat boyfriend and provide you with a fulfilling life“, just like every other non-Twighlight-centric blog.

Plus we have the Spatula keepin us from falling asleep at the keyboard. Semi role-model, power of example and mentor(without being informed of such), Mel is writing the kind of topical material that we really need to learn to do…looks simple enough…find a news item, a celebrity home video or nostalgia-inducing memory and “BAM” (to reference a figure in Mel’s professional world), good Post. But the real secret seems to be coming up with ‘cellent titles. Mel’s last Post had me sitting back and saying …”damn!! why the hell didn’t I think of that!” ( actually that is not quite what I said, but being in the FINAL 90, we are trying to stay as mainstream as possible). I won’t tell you what the title in question is, you should just go there and read the thing at…the Spatula.

You do know there is a real Wakefield, don’t you? And it is driven through on Saturday nights on a fairly frequent basis. During these drives much of the work that supports the writing of this blog takes place. Yours truely and DownSpring glenn are the Driver and Passenger. If anyone out there (among Readers) would like to join us, let me know. It would be fun. (Sort of like sleeping with Martha Washington, if she were still alive…and if she liked you…and if she, you know…was open-minded…on both sides of the fence too, of course…)

Anyway, there is room in the car (being made famous in the still-being-written-one-reluctant-word-at-a-time screenplay), so come on down. Hell, if we get enough people, we can rent a limo or a bus and bring you along when we ‘go to Wakefield’. Would be fun.

This FINAL 90? Long story. Bring it up ’cause it seems that the Doctrine is not getting linked properly to the Facebook page (of the Wakefield Doctrine). Will make every effort to to remedy that. Speaking of issues, the roger’s little blog is still working on finding itself in the digital wilderness …when you are done writing a Comment here ( yeah, right lol) get your own damn self over to the Recession Session and try to figure out what is going on there…decent stuff.

I need to stop and find the song that has been running through my head since I bumped into today’s sub-title this morning…”dah dah …and I’ll never be the same..lah lah” or something.

…end of the month not long off and a certain school house is starting to show signs of life…Janie and Britney and the ghang are due back real soon, they will surely have a lot of stories of summer vacations to tell…and it seems that the Slovenians have decided not to return to Mill Fill this year! We will miss them, but we have an application from some exchange students from a place called, ‘ the Autonomous Region of Mardrid’ (“the fighting Bull Fighters”… motto: “we tip our monteras to no one”) Now I know why I saw the Rosetta Stone package in Mr. B’s janitorial closet…he must be brushing up, ¿no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt89ZLRkgdE

Hey, for those you say clarks take things too seriously…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPXBCTRPzQ

serious this, you scottian/rogerian head-in-the-sand-barely-rising-to-a-level appropriate to a “What Color are Your Dreams…” blog …not something as totally insightful and Challenging as this here Wakefield Doctrine blog here…

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really? then quid pro quo this

August 3, 2010 By clarkscottroger

…still here?…

Hey, you’re still here! Damn, that’s a relief…kinda thought I would see the lights get brighter all of a sudden as the result of the computers being turned off! (of all 90 Regular Readers).
…in any event…Welcome the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). We are still in whatever transition mode that we seem to find ourselves in, so if this Post appears a bit disjointed, bear with us. As simply everyone knows, the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, productive and fun way to understand the people around us. At home, at work and at play the behavior of those around us will finally make sense.
What you may not yet know, is that the Wakefield Doctrine is also a unique, productive….etc way to change things in your own life, everything from bad habits to bad choices in life partners. If you have ever caught yourself thinking, “…now why did I do that, I said I would not do that again…” then you are in luck. The Doctrine not only can help you get rid of those bad parts of your life, but you will have fun doing it!
Really.
Most of all the Wakefield Doctrine is fun! Fun for you and (one) friend* or all by yourself, when out in the world, trying to live your life.

So join us and see the world in a slightly different way today. Or not. The beauty part of the Doctrine is that if you like what the Doctrine has to offer or if you think it is all self-indulgent bullshit, that’s ok! The reason that it is ok is that we knew you would feel that way.
(That’s sort of how it is with people who get into the Wakefield Doctrine. Knowing if a person is a clark or a scott or a roger pretty much tells us everything we need to know about that person.)

Oh Yeah!

btw, New Readers? If you have not gotten into the background stuff yet ( scott, I’m looking at you…) then here is a real quick 911…we all start with the qualities of all three types of people…at an early age we start to go with one (over the other two), but we always have the qualities of the other two. Just below the suface, maybe totally buried but they are always there…that’s why at this point you might find yourself saying…”hey Doctrinaires! its a fact sometimes I must be what you are calling a roger and then at other times I surely must be a scott, how can that be?”…”huh? tell me that”…

That is the point. All people have the qualities of all three, just mostly one… And there is another thing about that…”hey I am one then the other” response, and that is the fact that anyone who gets this far in the Wakefield Doctrine, is a bit more….not intelligent…not sensitive…flexible, yeah that’s it…you must have a certain intellectual flexibility to get this shit and so your “other two parts/types” are closer to the surface for you than they would be for most people.

So that is sort of what we try to do here…show you what the three types “look like” so you can recognise them in your personal world. I guarantee, once you see a clark and a scott and a roger in your life, you will never be the same. There will be no going back. So you might as well get it over with…today. Work/school is the easiest place to start. You can do this all on your own, but once you get started, you will want to get another person involved, it actually is more fun that way. And this is supposed to be fun. No giant drama, no mystical journey of inner total-frickin-self-discovery, yo. Just understand that all people can be seen as being clarks, scotts or rogers (including your own damn self) and by knowing this, you will never be totally surprised by what people in your life do. (unless you are a roger…)

But we will still have fun here…(latin sub-title not withstanding)

Alright…put too much time into finding the following rogerian opiate to just throw it away, but remind me tomorrow to address the current rogerian culture that we seem to be in…I just got up from a commercial for “Dave’s Miracle Memory System” god! where are we heading…

Well that will draw the rogers to the light, give the scotts something easy to eat.

Got to run…someone please ask us about the increasingly rogerian nature of the world…

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and a man comes on to tell me, how white my shirts can be

July 28, 2010 By clarkscottroger

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

If you are new here, the Wakefield Doctrine(or ‘the Doctrine’ as the cognoscenti would have it) is a homegrown “theory” of “personality”. It is presented in this blog with total sincerity but also not entirely too, too seriously. The Doctrine proposes to offer a way to look at people, a system of categorization that has for all experience to date, proven to be as effective a system of personality types as say, Myers Briggs, BrainType (they have their own Institute!), DWSI (or was that INTJ …no, now that I think of it it it definitely was HJLN), or “your brain has a color and that will tell you everything”system and we certainly can’t neglect E-Harmony’s ground-breaking work in the field that has culminated in: the 29 Personality Dimensions! Of course, we here at the Doctrine are never shy about comparing and contrasting the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers with any of the ‘legitimate’ theories of personality. Particularly when they advertise on TV. Following is a short list of warnings that E-Harmony provides to their clients and clientesse,s prior to meeting that Certain Someone! (actual advice that is provided on their site!)

(they say) Watch out for someone who:

Asks inappropriate questions.          ….scott!

Tells stories with inconsistencies, some which may sound grandiose.               ……clark, you think?

Gives vague answers to specific questions.               …………oh clark! we are so happy you took a step to get out of the house

Urges you to compromise your principles.         ……..scott, scott, scott…we know that’s you

Constantly blames others for troubles in his or her life.             ……..what a roger!

Insists on getting overly close, overly fast.                       er, scott…who doesn’t see this!

And there are some people who say the Wakefield Doctrine does not have an immediate value in the real world! Ladies and Gentlemen I submit the above, proof positive that the Doctrine will be of immediate value. So when you call the E -Harmony people or the Chemicals.com ( who have provided the following testimonials):

“When Tom and I first started correspondence through the Chemistry site, it was immediately obvious that we had a great deal in common. After speaking on the phone a few times, we arranged a first date. I was so anxious to meet him that I canceled a date with someone else! We talked for hours that evening over dinner and took a walk in a river side park. It was difficult to

“Our first phone conversation lasted for about five hours and then we had several more after that. By the time we decided to meet for dinner, I already liked him as a person and knew we would have fun together. It was just a question of chemistry! I kept wondering, ‘He is a country boy and I am a city girl, how will this go?’ Our first date was seven hours long, we couldn’t get enough of each other

I will ask you, who does not see a roger and a clark in one of these, and a clark and a scott in the other ( two examples above). We could tell you which of these are which but, here at the Wakefield Doctrine it’s all about the learnosity, learningness or whatever rogerian expression one might choose. Write a Comment telling us which is which and you might win a hat (for your damn head).
Where was I? Oh yeah! Practical Uses of Personality Theory.
Damn, if people are so desperate to understand what another person is like that they are willing to respond to a commercial that they see on cable tv, right after that really stupid ad for the Amazing Auger, (pitched by a frickin dead guy no less), then we here at the Wakefield Doctrine should step up and try to come to the aid of humanity.

So today, tell a friend, tell a relative, tell a stranger, “hey are you lonely and want to find happiness with a total and equally desperate stranger? The Wakefield Doctrine is the answer”
(………a salesperson is waiting for your call!)