[Ads-l] Taking nominations

[Wilson Gray]

I say, call the place "Ukrainia" or "Ukrania."

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:37 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Sep 26, 2019, at 2:14 PM, Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
> >
> > I would go with "Kyiv Pro Quo."
> >
> > ("Quid Pro Kyiv" appeared in a Vox article, but I think my version is
> more mellifluous.)
>
> Not bad at all.  Too bad the so-called Russian Pee Tapes and their
> purported cover-up never amounted to anything; that would have posed less
> of a challenge.
> >
> > I've also seen on Twitter: "Stupid Watergate II: Electric Waterloo"
> >
> > (John Oliver calls the Russian collusion affair "Stupid Watergate.")
> >
> >
> >
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> Laurence Horn
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> >
> > From today’s coverage in the NYT Online (emphasis added):
> >
> >
> > Other allegations from the whistle-blower:
> >
> >       • Attorney General William Barr and the president’s personal
> lawyer Rudolph Giuliani were central to the effort to compel Ukraine to
> investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.
> >       • White House officials were “deeply disturbed by what had
> transpired in the phone call” because they “had witnessed the President
> abuse his office for personal gain.”
> >       • Senior White House officials tried to “lock down” records of the
> call, especially a word-for-word transcript.
> >
> > Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking to reporters today, said the
> administration’s reported efforts to conceal the call amounted to a
> “cover-up.”
> >
> > So we need an X-gate for the purported cover-up.  Ukrainegate is pretty
> awful, and Bidengate not much better (except phonologically).  Any
> suggestions on solving for X?
> >
> > (I recall way back when, there were reference to GHW Bush's “Chicken
> Kiev” speech...aha—here it is:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech>. But that’s not really
> relevant here, except it is an exceptionally bon mot.)
> >
> > LH
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