# No more '-gate's! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729 "2005-06-03T15:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/21 "2005-06-03T18:32:39Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > I’m moving this thread to MPSIMS. I can’t think of any good -gate jokes, so insert your own. _Hot off the SDMB News wire, Mod Giraffe moved the Gate thread to MPSIMS, there is talk this might be the Modgate we’ve all been waiting for._ ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/22 "2005-06-03T19:32:12Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I’m bloody sick of ‘-gate’ being attached to every political scandal. The reason the Watergate Scandal had a ‘-gate’ in it was because the hotel was called The Water_gate_. But then we had ‘Koreagate’. Oh, how _clever!_ Okay, it might have been ‘clever’ the first time; but -‘gate’ is entirely overused. ‘Contragate’? I’ve never heard of The Contragate Hotel. Gate, gate, gate, gate, _gate!_ It bugs me. It’s been three decades since the Watergate investigation, and even today we have [‘Coingate’](http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050529/NEWS24/505290441). :rolleyes: > > Come on, Newsies; _be original!_ Contragate? Wasn’t it normally just called “Iran Contra”? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/23 "2005-06-03T19:43:33Z")
I second the hilarity of the Daily Show: Stephen: John, Watergate was the scandal that really allowed the ‘gate’ suffix to take off. John: Um, Stephen. Watergate was the first scandal to utilize the suffix ‘gate’, as it was named after the Watergate Hotel. Stephen: Not so much. See there was Teapot Dome Gate ((insert other historical gates)) and of course we cannot forget- slavery gate. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/24 "2005-06-04T00:00:19Z")
So you’re saying that this “-gate” thing has jumped the shark? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/25 "2005-06-04T00:25:30Z")
Oh, I can top this. Several years ago, there was a talk show host on a local tv station in Charleston. His last name was Waters. He got caught in some scandal involving the city council, something about attemping to bribe people to get a certain someone elected. The bright folks at the other tv stations started calling it “Watersgate.” Thanks, guys, quite a leap you made there. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/26 "2005-06-04T00:45:52Z")
Don’t forget Jerusalem’s Fish Gate. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/27 "2005-06-04T02:20:18Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > So you’re saying that this “-gate” thing has jumped the shark? Yep. A regular sharkbaitgate. I’ve heard that Dan Hauser guy is about to be indicted… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/28 "2005-06-04T02:38:31Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Yep. A regular sharkbaitgate. > I’ve heard that Dan Hauser guy is about to be indicted… Gateless Gate gate? YOU BASTARD! ;j ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/29 "2005-06-04T02:42:04Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Gateless Gate gate? > > YOU BASTARD! ;j Plus there was something about C-beams. I forget. ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/30 "2005-06-06T07:23:10Z")
How come they didn’t call the Clinton impeachment Fornicategate? Or just Fornigate? It’s gold! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/31 "2005-06-06T07:25:48Z")
Too bad [Peter Masters](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58552-2005Mar22.html) of the Wash. Post never had a scandal. Mastergate anyone? ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729/32 "2005-06-06T20:29:04Z")
Or when Pee Wee Herman was arrested in the porn theater: _Masterbategate_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-gates/306729.md?page=1)