Friday, January 23, 2015

Gates

With the scandal of deflated balls for a play off game we get another suffix of "Gate."

The first Gate was Watergate so named because of the hotel involved in the break in that eventually brought down Nixon. And I do wonder if the hotel had been a Holiday Inn or Embassy Suites or something like Sheffield, would all the Gates of the last 40 years be Inns or Suites or Fields.

So to rename some of the recent scandals using this supposed system...

Benghazi Inn, Benghazi Suites, Benghazi Field
Ball Inn, Ball Suites, Ball Field
Deflate Inn, Deflate Suites, Deflate Field.
Climate Inn, Climate Suites, Climate Field
Hacker Inn , Hacker Suites, Hacker Field.
Bridge Inn, Bridge, Suites, Bridge Field

To see a full list of "gates" look on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%22_suffix

The thing I'd like to see is to stop naming everything a fucking Gate. Seriously, just because you think something is a scandal you should stop using the suffix, GATE. It has become a lazy way to tell people that something is a SCANDAL. And many of these Gates no one has ever heard of or remembers as being as scandalous as they thought it was at the time. Few of them actually rise to the seriousness of a thing which made a president resign.

Ball Gate. Fucking really?