Hmm…this sounded really interesting, too.
It’s the missing 18-1/2 line OP!
Quick, somebody call Buchanan.
I think the EU should stop funding this message board until we can account for where exactly December’s post went.
Actually, I thought this was the most profound and most true post that december has provided us.
A post that isn’t a post, in a thread that isn’t a thread! (Is this a kind of “a-postasy?”
The philosophical implictions of its non-existence is…is…
Never mind.
Apparently Cecil forgot to give SBMB its lunch, so it ate the OP. Fortunately I kept a copy. Perhaps some kind mod would move this post up to the front?
On the 30th anniversary of Watergate, it’s a good time to review the most terrible ongoing consequence of Nixon’s evil doings. It is the lazy practice of putting the suffix “gate” on the end of a word to name any new scandal.
You are invited to submit your favorite. My submission: For the Lewinsky scandal,
What’s-a-nice-Jewish-girl-like-you-doing-in-a-place-like-this-gate.
R Kelly & jail-bait-gate.
Jeb Bush and Co. messing with the wetlands ecology of Florida and disturbing the auto-erotic practices or resident reptiles:
Masturbator-gator-gate
Teapot Dome-gate!
When Eminem won a grammy, a friend of mine called it “wiggergate”. That was pretty bad.
In 1964, there was the rioting and demonstrations at the Telegraph Ave. entrance to the University of California at Berkeley. Had we known what we know now, we could have called it “Sather Gate gate” instead of the Free Speech Movement.
A certain business man had an issue regarding the entrance to his property. IT was, of course, “Gate’s- gate-gate”
Apostalypse now!
Well, there was a certain TMI thread that, due to its infamy, can best be described as SPOOFEgate.
If the scandal were started by Glenn Reynolds, it could be called insta-gate.
Um, let’s see, when the SDMB was down for an entire month due to a nasty little cracker, I’d call that fuckergate.
The madness of JDT - Peckergate
The controversy surrounding letters that could be reformed to create other words was an egg armata.
This is quickly disintegrating into an MPSIMS-style thread. :smack:
Not that I mind, though! 