I was listening to some sports radio guys riffing on DeflateGate and now HeadsetGate and it struck me: what if the Watergate Hotel was named something else? How would all scandals be named, and what silly combos could result?
I am not great at this kinda stuff, but I have to believe there are some good possibilities. All the ones I have come up with are stupid, like what if the hotel was called The Corksniffer Inn and everything ended up with "-sniffer"at the end of it? Benghazi-sniffer? Bridge-sniffer? Not really funny, but I hope it gets the point across.
Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if some actual comedians had taken a swing at this, but nothing is coming to mind.
People are already using the -ghazi prefix, generally to denote a fake or otherwise overblown scandal. For example, the gamerghazi subreddit that only exists to make fun of gamergate.
As an aside, we have William Safire to blame for the proliferation of the -gate suffix to any and all faux pas, whether they rise to the level of a genuine scandal or not:
There’s The Knickerbocker so we could have had Weiner-bocker, Bebe-bocker, Nipple-bocker, Billy-bocker, Mammy-bocker, Nanny-bocker, Bounty-bocker, Dongle-bocker, etc.
