-gate
Whenever there's a scandal of one kind or another, the media LOVES to give it a title using "-gate" as a suffix and I cannot fucking stand it. WATERGATE WAS THE NAME OF THE HOTEL YOU STUPID TWONKS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH the SCANDAL ITSELF APART FROM LOCATION. STOP THIS NONSENSE.

A great example happened here in NZ when there was a scandal surrounding GE corn seed, which the media dubbed: CORNGATE. I wish I was kidding: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corngate

[Hopefully hasn't been done; I'm fashionably late to the party and too hard and straight and cool to read all the other posts]
(ElGranto, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 4:16, 7 replies)

I'm just waiting for a scandal involving the undead.
It could be called Lichgate.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 5:02, closed)

q.v.
(tellum0 is spelled with an 'o', Wed 14 Apr 2010, 6:23, closed)

Dammit!
I was coming to link to that!

I have to give them credit, this sounds much more reasonable.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Wed 14 Apr 2010, 9:42, closed)

it would have been great if nixon sent his minions to break into a pub instead of a hotel!
it might have been called the water hole.

Just think how much funnier certain news reports would have been. Your example would have been cornhole.

The andrew sachs/russel brand debacle would have been sachshole.

If only..........
(OTT, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 8:21, closed)

I'd like there to be a scandal involving the Chelsea Flower Show
It would be garden-gate
(thefuckestuppest cheapened this, on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 9:00, closed)

it has been done
and has also been done by Mitchell and Webb on their popular tv show.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 9:13, closed)

.
So what scandal did that toothpaste maker get up to?
( Kovacs Slogan free since 2003, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 23:13, closed)