New words in the news/Skategate

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#57023 - 02/15/02 09:18 AM New words in the news/Skategate
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	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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#57024 - 02/15/02 09:49 AM Re: New words in the news/Skategate
rkay member Registered: 12/13/00 Posts: 144 Loc: London, UK	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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#57025 - 02/15/02 10:47 AM Re: New words in the news/Garbagegate
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	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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#57026 - 02/15/02 10:49 AM Re: New words in the news/Garbagegate
rkay member Registered: 12/13/00 Posts: 144 Loc: London, UK	Ah yes, but is it a 'non-scandal' to hide the real scandal??
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#57027 - 02/15/02 10:58 AM more sporting scandals
rkay member Registered: 12/13/00 Posts: 144 Loc: London, UK	and another current sporting scandal that should be of interest to those in NZ: Aucklandgate http://makeashorterlink.com/?X64D22B6
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#57028 - 02/15/02 03:16 PM Re: New words in the news/copy cat
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	copy cat Yes...the cloned kitty.
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#57029 - 02/15/02 03:17 PM Re: New words in the news/copy cat
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	the cloned kitty Full name, Cc:.
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#57030 - 02/15/02 03:21 PM Re: Cloned kitty-cat
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York
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#57031 - 02/15/02 09:13 PM Re: New words in the news/Skategate
Bobyoungbalt veteran Registered: 11/22/00 Posts: 1289	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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#57032 - 02/16/02 09:23 AM Re: New "sports" aptronym
Keiva Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/04/01 Posts: 2605	President of Russian Figure Skating Federation: Valentin Piseev [which I had recollected as Viktor Pisof. So close ... so close...]
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