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Well, the Olympic figure skating debacle has provided us a fresh coinage: Skategate. (which I kinda like) And, recently, as mentioned in Jazzo's thread, we've had Enronomics, Enronitis, and Enronistic... (soon to come...Enronics? Enronical?) Opinions of Skategate? Any other new or recent words to add?
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Well we're currently in the middle of 'Garbagegate' See http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4355436,00.html extract: Under fire for his role in aiding an Indian businessman to purchase Romania's major steel plant, Mr Blair angrily dismissed the accusations as "Garbagegate." He added: "It's not Watergate, it is Garbagegate. It's the biggest load of garbage since the last load of garbage, which was Enron."
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Garbagegate
I like it! It gives a new twist to meaning of the --gate suffix. Non-scandal rather than scandal. A whole new word unto itself really.
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Ah yes, but is it a 'non-scandal' to hide the real scandal??
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and another current sporting scandal that should be of interest to those in NZ: Aucklandgate http://makeashorterlink.com/?X64D22B6
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Yes...the cloned kitty.
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the cloned kitty
Full name, Cc:.
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My opinion of any new word incorporating the suffix 'gate' is 10 thumbs down. I pity anyone whose intellectual capacity is so meager and his imagination so lacking as to have to resort to anything so hackneyed. Give it a rest, for mercy's sake!
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President of Russian Figure Skating Federation: Valentin Piseev [which I had recollected as Viktor Pisof. So close ... so close...]
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