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22884

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
22885

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it

note: As a little kid in the 50s, when I heard about the Iron Curtain, I pictured a literal curtain, made of iron, hanging through Europe. (Of course Sarah Palin probably still thinks that what it was.)

22886

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it
  8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal)

I realize this is actually covered by #5, but we need to move this puppy along.

22887

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it
  8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal)
  9. The Boston Strangler

Sorry, sorry! I thought this one would move a lot faster! (Feel free to add media-named criminals for more possibilities)

22888

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it
  8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal)
  9. The Boston Strangler
  10. 10 Days That Shook The World

(John Reed’s “catchy” name for the Russian Revolution.)

22889

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it
  8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal)
  9. The Boston Strangler
  10. 10 Days That Shook The World
  11. Arab Spring
22890

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it
  8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal)
  9. The Boston Strangler
  10. 10 Days That Shook The World
  11. Arab Spring
  12. The Great War

WW1 obviously, AKA ,“The War to End All Wars.”

22891

News events with their own media-supplied “catchy names”

  1. Snowpocalypse
  2. America held Hostage: Day xx (ABC’s name for the 1979-80 Iran crisis, which became Nightline)
  3. Frankenstorm
  4. Thundersnow
  5. The millions of -gate scandals inspired by Watergate
  6. The Iran-Contra Affair
  7. The Iron Curtain - used by Churchill in a 1946 speech, the media quickly picked up on it
  8. Zippergate (the Lewinsky/Clinton scandal)
  9. The Boston Strangler
  10. 10 Days That Shook The World
  11. Arab Spring
  12. The Great War
  13. Whitewater Affair
    New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.
  14. Chester Alan Arthur
22892

New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
22893

New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
22894

New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
22895

New: It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant

My family once owned a mirror that he used to own.

22896

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
22897

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
22898

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
  8. Benjamin Harrison
22899

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
  8. Benjamin Harrison
  9. Chris Ballew

:smiley:

22900

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
  8. Benjamin Harrison
  9. Chris Ballew
  10. François Hollande

you did not specify American Presidents

22901

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
  8. Benjamin Harrison
  9. Chris Ballew
  10. François Hollande
  11. David Palmer

or non-fictional ones. :slight_smile:

22902

It’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
  8. Benjamin Harrison
  9. Chris Ballew
  10. François Hollande
  11. David Palmer
  12. Jefferson Davis
22903

t’s Presidents Day, so 13 Presidents, but not the obvious ones.

  1. Chester Alan Arthur
  2. Zachary Taylor
  3. James Garfield
  4. Martin van Buren
  5. Ulysses S. Grant
  6. James K. Polk
  7. John Quincy Adams
  8. Benjamin Harrison
  9. Chris Ballew
  10. François Hollande
  11. David Palmer
  12. Jefferson Davis
  13. Franklin Pierce

New topic: First Ladies and Their Pet Causes

  1. “Lemonade Lucy” Hayes, and temperance