Why Is It Called The '___gate' (and related topics merged)

[Conzors]

Hey There,

This may seem like a really dumb question (Although it is coming from me).

Why is it called the the spitgate, or the custardcream-gate.

Its like, theres no gates involved is there?

Sorry just a random wonderment thing.

Conzors
xx

[_Tom_]

I was wondering that too. :shrug:

[Scarlett.]

Something to do with the

Watergate scandal, related to Vietnam I think

its annoying as the word is overused now

[bananarama]

Originally posted by Conzors
Hey There,

This may seem like a really dumb question (Although it is coming from me).

Why is it called the the spitgate, or the custardcream-gate.

Its like, theres no gates involved is there?

Sorry just a random wonderment thing.

Conzors
xx

Ancient American political scandal if I recall correctly.....Can't remember details no doubt someone will post with more info.

[_Tom_]

Originally posted by Chewy
Something to do with the

Watergate scandal, related to Vietnam I think

its annoying as the word is overused now

Oh right, a bit strange, thanks Chewy! :thumbs:

[Shaun]

Lots of scandals have "gate" on the end, like Watergate (where Richard Nixon tried to get rid of records against him but was caught and had to resign as President - I think that's the basic details). I think that's where the term comes from, because it was a very scandalous event.

Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that began with five men being arrested after breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. The scandal reached to the top levels of American government, and the attempted cover-up of the break-in ultimately led to Nixon's dramatic resignation on August 9, 1974.

The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. The word "Watergate" is derived from the Watergate Complex, where the scandal started. On June 17, 1972, agents of the Nixon White House and the Nixon reelection campaign were arrested while breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee, which at the time was located in the Watergate Complex (a combination of residences and offices located near the Potomac River) in Washington, D.C. Over the course of the next two years, the scandal grew from what initially appeared to be a relatively small and inconsequential event to become one of the biggest political controversies in U.S. history.

[Rocko]

Originally posted by Chewy


its annoying as the word is overused now

Too right.

Like a soggy used tissue....

....just leave it alone :yuk:

[Conzors]

Originally posted by Shaun
Lots of scandals have "gate" on the end, like Watergate (where Richard Nixon tried to get rid of records against him but was caught and had to resign as President - I think that's the basic details). I think that's where the term comes from, because it was a very scandalous event.

Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that began with five men being arrested after breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. The scandal reached to the top levels of American government, and the attempted cover-up of the break-in ultimately led to Nixon's dramatic resignation on August 9, 1974.

Oh.

LMFAO.

Thanks :)

[Scarlett.]

Originally posted by Rocko
Originally posted by Chewy


its annoying as the word is overused now

Too right.

Like a soggy used tissue....

....just leave it alone :yuk: Aye its like next thing we know there will be a "Diary room gate" or summat:conf2:

[stonedape]

Watergate was a series of huge political scandals under Nixon's administration. Campaign fraud, political sabotage, break ins, and illegal wiretapping.

<3 the US Government.

[andyman]

lil poo-gate last night, if stu was put in there for jen then thats stu-gate! Gates are great! Rite bb on, ciao bella!

[ElProximo]

Yep, a 60s era scandal at the Watergate hotel and then for the next 30 years thats generations journalists would play on words for any scandal as ___gate.
Clinton-gate,
Lewinsky-gate,
Steroidgate and so on.

Its interesting though.. you see how something becomes part of the language.
but,
No I think its time to end that one heh.

[violet]

so in the show they keep referring to certain arguments as ----gate, like picturegate, spitgate, etc. Why do they keep doing this and what does it mean?

[thisisme2008]

It's a play on 'Watergate' so it basically means a scandal.

[thisisme2008]

Originally posted by ElProximo
Yep, a 60s era scandal at the Watergate hotel and then for the next 30 years thats generations journalists would play on words for any scandal as ___gate.
Clinton-gate,
Lewinsky-gate,
Steroidgate and so on.

Its interesting though.. you see how something becomes part of the language.
but,
No I think its time to end that one heh.

well it wasn't a hotel it was an office building which housed the offices of the Democrat Party, but yes....

[AngRemembered]

It refers to scandals orininating from the infamous political scandal in the USA back in the early 1970's.

The president then was involved in secret telephone tapping allegations from within the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC.
The press at the time headlined the phrase the Watergate scandal, and ever since the term has repeated with the scandal in particular exchaged with the word 'water' from the original.