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# haha, maybe
I love it when people get all uppity about the use of 'gate' at the end of a new scandal.
'wah wah, watergate wasn't about water - people are using language all wrong'
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 27 Oct 2012, 22:43, archived)
# Yes, more of this sort of thing!
I very much enjoyed the Andrew Mitchell/policeman affair being dubbed "Gategate"
(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Sat 27 Oct 2012, 22:56, archived)
# Ah, I missed that.
I suppose people getting themselves in a tizz about that could be called gategategate.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sat 27 Oct 2012, 23:12, archived)
# the gruaniad had "unishambles" as a headline recently which was a nice play on
omnishambles eh?
(I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 14:55, archived)
# what about Margate
the mother of all conspiracies.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 0:22, archived)
# oof
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 0:23, archived)
# It's more because it's lazy.
I just think that if you're paid to write for a living, then try and avoid the worst of the cliches.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 28 Oct 2012, 1:36, archived)
# or else it would be clichegate
and then where would you be, eh? at the gate, that's where, being shown the way out!

or something.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 1:51, archived)
# It's just shorthand.
Instead of 'the jimmy savile record-breaking amounts of child abuse scandal' it's easier to say 'jimgate'. Not that anyone does yet.
More importantly, it annoys other people who have nothing better to do with their time than point out that the watergate scandal was in no way related to water. Just in case I didn't already know.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 3:18, archived)
# But what would they call it if there was to occur a scandal related to water?
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 28 Oct 2012, 11:49, archived)