IT WAS NOT CALLED WATERGATE BECAUSE RICHARD NIXON COVERED UP A WATER CONSPIRACY. IT WAS CALLED WATERGATE BECAUSE THAT IS THE NAME OF THE LOCATION AT WHICH THE CRIME OCCURRED.
You're kidding? I've never heard of a place called Watergate. What is it? Like a hotel or something? Seriously though, the media isn't particularly clever, and since the TV-drunk public latches onto single-syllables and verbal shortcuts so readily, it was natural to just beat the whole "-gate" thing to death for three decades and counting. It's the political equivalent of "J-Lo" or "LiLo" or "K-Fed". Such is life in the land of the free and the home of the attention deficit disordered.
You're kidding right? Anyone who knows anything about Watergate knows it is a complex of housing/office/hotel space. It's still there in fact.
Figures they'd be the first to fuck it up. It's ironic because they're always pissed off about English making it into their precious fucking language. Courier electronique indeed, you fucking assholes. Also, I am not drunk, but I am not sober. Not sober enough to know better than to tell you all that I am not sober.
Since the climate scandal is all about global warming, shouldn't it be called 'Hottergate?' Thank you, I'm here all week...try the buffet...
Tricky one, do you class all the sides together or consider those influencing results to not show warming trends to be a seperate bunch? If so then the influences put on various scientific organisations by the former US and Australian governments would come under the latter and be needing a name.
Along these lines: When you have difficulty managing your alcohol intake, you are an alcoholic. All you are adding is "ic" to the root word. If you have trouble controlling your temper, some will call you a "rageaholic." Sorry, there's no such word as "rageahol." There is no such word as "sexahol" etc. etc.
If a politician gets caught spanking his monkey in a public park, would the media call it "Bategate?"
Wow, by today's standards that's a big nothing, easily spun by most anyone. Seems the biggest problem for President Nixon was he just wasn't good on TV.
