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KAZVorpal -> RE: Too Much Stuff: How Our Profligate Consumerism Might Keep Us in Iraq (12/7/2008 5:10:36 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
Just a question I would like to ask ;
What is it with all this 'gate' stuff, what do you mean when ou say gate as in profli-gate ?
We hear it so often from the US, but am confused as to what it means and why you use it.
When Nixon's lackeys broke into the watergate hotel, its name became synonymous with scandal. Since it sounds like a compound word, people started putting -gate on the end of other scandals. This was aggravated by the whitewater scandal, which lent itself so easily to being whitewatergate.
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