BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!

[Wilson Gray]

Or, perhaps, merely as "opengate."

-Wilson

On 12/7/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> That's funny:  "pantygate" would more accurately be "NOpantygate"!
> --Charlie
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> >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:47:53 -0800
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> >Subject: BRITNEY PANTYGATE! PHUN! E-SENSE ! HUMEAN BEINGS!
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> >2006_Fox Online_ (FNC TV show) (Dec. 7): Britney Spears...in the scandal that some are calling Pantygate.
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> >  This "-gate" is unusual for being applied to a noncriminal act by a nonpolitical (yeah, I know: evrybody's "political") individual.
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