more -gates

[Jonathan Lighter]

I meant "inventing these." Poor proofing. Sorry.

JL

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Then there was Newt Gingrich's "mategate."
>
> Donald Trump's "pategate."
>
> Mark Sanford's "dategate."
>
> Jim McGreevey's "straightgate."
>
> The Royal Family's possible "Kategate."
>
>
>
> Or am I inventing that?
>
> Watch for (among others):
>
> hategate
> stategate
> slategate
> rategate
> lategate
> freightgate
> Tategate
> weightgate
> baitgate
> traitgate
>
> I'm not looking forward to a royal Kategate or an existential Fategate,
> however.
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Ben Zimmer <
> bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The "slutgate" has already gone by, in case you missed it.
>> >>
>> >> Now we have the overheating iPads 3s that are being dubbed "heatgate".
>> >
>> > "Crate-gate."
>> >
>> > Mitt's doggie-transport scandal.
>> >
>> > "Watergate" was in 1972. Please, please let this crap die!
>>
>> Today, of course, brought Etch-a-Sketch-gate.
>>
>> --bgz
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