I yearn for the time we stop calling Scandals "Gate"

[MadBadger]

Sigh...

[yourout]

1. I yearn for a time when there are no Scandals to call a "Gate"

[Raine]

20. As long as there is politicians there will be scandals

so don't hold your breath on that one.

[ButterflyBlood]

2. Agreed

Stupid term, it's not like Watergate even involved water.

[joshcryer]

3. Yearning-Gate.

!!!!!!!!

[Lint Head]

4. Lets com up with a new suffix.

Door? Hole? Waterhole would be too obvious even though Watergate is the actual name of the Hotel.
Or not.

[MadBadger]

5. Imagine if the hotel was called the Watercock

I dont think they'd be calling things cock

[NBachers]

14. How about Schnitzel

as in . . .

[Lint Head]

22. Love it!

:loveya: :rofl: :rofl:

[Newest Reality]

6. That could be a scandalgate!

Maybe we could call them doors, windows, portals, or "politics as usual" instead?

I hope we don't have to endure stargates much longer without proof.

[LiberalAndProud]

7. Won't that require a new scandal defining moment with a sufficiently migratory suffix?

What would we call all of our scandals if the breakin had occurred at a Marriott. Otters?

[Skip Intro]

8. Careful what you wish for, ___apalooza might be next. nt

[BlueIris]

9. Even I would prefer -apalooza to gate.

Equally lame and equally dated.

[ChrisBorg]

10. Nope, nope, nope.

[ChrisBorg]

11. We'll have to wait for the next one that brings down a President.

And doesn't lend itself to the "gate" suffix.

I nominate "incident".

[gratuitous]

12. What? You expect professional journalists to be imaginative?

You want some creativity out of the Beltway Insiders? They didn't get to their elevated positions by thinking! Following the herd is where the big money is.

[MadBadger]

13. Its not even political

You have nipplegate, spygate, and the list goes on and on

[eShirl]

15. Why? It's like having Nixon's picture in the dictionary under "scandal."

[MyrnaLoy]

16. It is

an affront to gates everywhere!

[Warren DeMontague]

17. It's been almost 40 years, now... it's never going to stop.

Probably best to learn to live with it.

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Actually, I amend the above post: I can think of just one way by which it would stop--

if a scandal came along that made it so obtuse or idiotic-sounding to say or refer to in that way, that it forced the suffix to essentially eat itself via it's own tired-ness.

Like, if Bill Gates were to get involved in politics and then got in some scandal that everyone had to call "Gatesgate". Or, if there was another big scandal centered around the Watergate Hotel and they had to call it "Watergategate"

(Although they'd probably take a clue from the "Pot 3.0" guy :rofl: and call it "Watergate 2.0")


It's a slim reed, but I suppose it's a chance. Sort of like how no one seems to be in a hurry to return to the practice of naming decades anymore- although come 2013 we may start hearing about the "teens"-- because the practice of trying to slap a name on the last decade was such a pain in the ass that everyone gave up.

[Raine]

19. Gate, gate, gate yeah that shit is getting really old. nt

:puke:

[LLStarks]

21. Watergate is the gold standard for political scandals in the US. I don't see that changing. nt