"Gate"

trashcan

So it's Lapgate now, Jesus Wept. For Chrissakes, could the Media stop. Please, just stop with this "gate" bull****. It's not big and it's not clever. In fact it's incredibly lazy and unoriginal journalism.

Although, having said that, the one time in recent years it would have actually worked and been funny was when Cowen appeared on the radio that morning "not drunk or hungover" Why oh why was that not "Cowengate"

I want there to be a scandal in a garden somewehere - "Gardengate".

Jarrod

I hate when they do that! The hotel was called the Watergate, the scandal had nothing to do with water. You hit the nail on the head, not big and not clever!

Weevil

'Gate'-gate.

PeteEd

Rantgate

trashcan wrote: »

So it's Lapgate now, Jesus Wept. For Chrissakes, could the Media stop. Please, just stop with this "gate" bull****. It's not big and it's not clever. In fact it's incredibly lazy and unoriginal journalism.

Although, having said that, the one time in recent years it would have actually worked and been funny was when Cowen appeared on the radio that morning "not drunk or hungover" Why oh why was that not "Cowengate"

I want there to be a scandal in a garden somewehere - "Gardengate".

artanevilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w

It should just be called the dáil laptop scandal.

Christ the Redeemer

We sound so cool aping the yanks, though.

anncoates

WhingeGate

wretcheddomain

BillGate

Or if Alice Cooper got attacked by an Crocodile; Aligater,

KeithM89

The best one was 'Cole-gate', i think it was for ashley cole or some tit like that.

RachaelVO

And now thanks to the Regina Monologues we'll have fannygate too

Thread gate

Duckworth_Luas

If the Watergate scandal was to happen now would the media refer to it was Watergategate?

RikkFlair

Thanks to David Norris we now have Fannygate.

I think I knew a Fanny Gates once.

Frank Lee Midere

I remember the time, growing up on the farm when Tom-Bob asked that shiftless loser Bob-Bob to fix the creaky gate. Bob-Bob never did fix the gate; instead he ran off with the oil money, met a hooker from Arkansas, so they say. Tom-Bob broke down after that, his trust in mankind destroyed . The gate still creaks to this day.

We called that incident

CreakyIncident

wretcheddomain

If this thread was closed by a Mod, no doubt we'd have LockedGate

gerTheGreat

I couldn't agree more with OP. Seriously, the Watergate scandal toppled the most powerful person in the world - it forced the President of the United States to resign. The use of "gate" as a way of titling the latest media storm is quite frankly the mark of lazy journalism and a grose ignorance of history.

TheChizler

Jarrod wrote: »

I hate when they do that! The hotel was called the Watergate, the scandal had nothing to do with water. You hit the nail on the head, not big and not clever!

Watergate-gate would be correct according to today's usage!

Edit: Damn Duckworth got there first

jobeenfitz

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

I remember the time, growing up on the farm when Tom-Bob asked that shiftless loser Bob-Bob to fix the creaky gate. Bob-Bob never did fix the gate; instead he ran off with the oil money, met a hooker from Arkansas they say. Tom-Bob broke down after that, his trust in mankind defeated. The gate still creaks to this day.

We called that incident

CreakyIncident

They say everybody has a book in them.

Frank Lee Midere

Pearls before porcine animals.

April O Neill

Weevil wrote: »

'Gate'-gate.

My boyfriend was involved in an incident involving a gate that he and friends frefer to as just that! :P:pac:

April O Neill

Jarrod wrote: »

I hate when they do that! The hotel was called the Watergate, the scandal had nothing to do with water. You hit the nail on the head, not big and not clever!

Arra we know that, if you think about it, it doesn't make sense, but sometimes language doesn't. It caught on and so now it doesn't really matter what the origin of the word was.

It's probably a bit overused, true.

Weevil

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Pearls before porcine animals.

Coming Soon- Silk Purses Gate

apollo8

We should call David Norris's outburst 'Fannygate'.:P

Shanotheslayer

This is 'gate-ing' out of hand.

trashcan

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

This is 'gate-ing' out of hand.

I agree. It's use-of-gate-gate