Has the "gate" suffix from Watergate outlived it's usefulness as a indicator of scandal?

[DrPepper12]

Yes ✅

No 🚫

I don't know. Maybe? 🤔 🤷🏻‍♂️

There's SOOO MANY better indices of scandal such as...

[WhiteSteve]

It’s one of my biggest pet peeves, lmao.

If there’s one thing that makes me cringe out of my skin, it’s when somebody makes the painfully obvious joke/pun/reference. I’m so embarrassed for them that I take it on myself. Either that or I want to choke the hell out of them, haha. I’m blanking on a good example in the moment, but I think you know what I mean.

There are even people I know, where someone will say something or a situation will arise, and in my mind I’m staring daggers at them, or just agitatedly waiting to see which one of the group I’m going to be silently judging, lmao, and I’m thinking to myself, “nobody say it…nobody say it…. nobody FUCKING say it….” Maybe like using the badly overplayed catchphrase from a household name movie character or something. I LOVE a good, well-timed quote. That’s a major part of my own sense of humor, and kind of a knack that I have comedically, just having appropriate funny quotes pop up with perfect timing situationally. I’m not knocking the device itself. But like the people who can’t hear about Australia without doing the Jim Carrey “let’s throw another shrimp on the barbie” bit from Dumb & Dumber…. STOP. We all saw it, we all enjoyed it, but it came out like 30 years ago. IT’S BEEN DONE TO DEATH. Good guideline: if it’s a line from the trailer or commercial, don’t say it. Surprise is a key element of comedy. When we can all see it coming from a mile away, it makes it lame.

And I think that’s the aspect of this that bothers me. It’s SO played out, yet so many people want to race to be the first to dub any scandal with “-gate.” I’ve thought this since probably the 90s, so imagine my dismay as a Patriots fan having to be on the business end of two “-gates”, lmao

[DrPepper12]

After decades of yearbooks with my students I too REALLY appreciate and know a lot of perfectly timed quotes!

In a Churchill mannerism of course...

[NathanDavis]

Elongate...

[LiaRaven]

Makes me laugh every time lmao 🤣

[Anonymous]

I think it's still in use. Think largely went out of style though after Hillary & Bill Clinton's went out of office you know pardongate, chinagate, whitewatergate etc.

Think Kategate was the last major one. The funniest one was penisgate where Kenny kravitz pants split on stage revealing his penis.

[Dargil]

The leftist media keeps it alive in their rhetoric inventory

[DrPepper12]

Hardly a partisan thing. Lazy uncreative tropes come from all sides...

[RedInnocent69]

No, but it is overused. It’s totally appropriate for abuses of power and breaches of public trust, though

[DJB72]

Watergate was the name of the fucking hotel. And the more of the JFK files that I see the more I'm thinking Nixon was set up.

[Dongie]

Yes! I hate it!! It's STOOPID!!!

[DrPepper12]

I KNEW you would!! 😂