more -gates

[Victor Steinbok]

You forgot the [East Anglia] climate-gate and our recursive
"too-late-gate"--trying to deal with the proliferation of the -gate
suffix when that horse left the barn eons ago. [feel free to pile-on
cliches]

     VS-)

On 3/22/2012 11:31 AM, Jonathan Lighter 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

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