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@someguy3@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

A scandal about Bill Gates would be called Bill Gates-gate.

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A scandal about Bill Gates would be called Bill Gates-gate.

@someguy3@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @habanhero@lemmy.ca
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    41•1 year ago

    Up next after Elongate

    • @indepndnt@lemmy.world
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      17•1 year ago

      I hope no one ever seriously uses that, because he suggested it himself.

      • Annoyed_🦀
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        9•1 year ago

        Melongate then.

      • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        5•1 year ago

        I hope that’s what we call the media storm that occurs after we find out that he underwent surgery to lengthen himself.

  • pruwyben
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    20•1 year ago

    A scandal involving a gate owned by Bill Gates would be called Gates’ gate-gate.

    • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      11•1 year ago

      A law banning Bill Gates gate scandals would be called: Bill Gates gate-gate bill.

      • Nougat
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        6•1 year ago

        And if someone was caught taking bribes to vote a certain way about that, it would be Bill Gates gate-gate bill-gate.

    • @ShunkW@lemmy.world
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      10•1 year ago

      If the scandal was a hoax it would be Bill Gates gate-gate-gate

    • @thomasloven@lemmy.world
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      1•1 year ago

      A scandal involving Bill Gates riding a horse through a gate might be called Bill Gates’ gate-gait-gate.

  • @cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    20•1 year ago

    Billgate

    • Gamers_Mate
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      2•1 year ago

      Yeah you can just remove the S from Bill Gates and it works.
      Also if he was a Goat he would Either be Bill Goats Or Billy Gates.

  • Carighan Maconar
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    14•1 year ago

    If it is about multiple scandals all involving countfeit money, they’d collectively be Bill Gates’ Billgates.

    • @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      5•1 year ago

      What about if he buys fence gates with that fake money?

      Bill Gates Gate Bill-gate.

      • Herbal Gamer
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        4•1 year ago

        If it’s for fence gates to a Shoebill enclosure?

        Bill Gates’ 'Bill Gates Bill-Gate

  • hrimfaxi_work
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    13•1 year ago

    I was kinda hoping that in the current era, political scandals would get a new suffix. Watergate happened 50 years ago, so popular first-hand memory of it is waning.

    There was a moment when I thought we could transition to [scandal]-a-lago, but it never happened.

    • metaStatic
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      5•1 year ago

      maybe when independent inquires into government start happening again you’ll uncover a scandal that can take the mantle.

      I’ll just be over here holding my breath.

    • @9point6@lemmy.world
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      4•1 year ago

      Hey man, the dream isn’t dead

  • @CptBread@lemmy.world
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    13•1 year ago

    No. It will be called Waterbill.

  • uphillbothways
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    13•1 year ago

    Watergate is just the name of a hotel/shop/office complex in DC. The Watergate scandal had nothing to do with water, it’s just named after the place where it occurred. The -gate suffix for scandals is dumb.

    • @Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu
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      4•1 year ago

      Thank you, I hate this trend so much. I’d rather be called a gate-gatekeeping douche than see it spread even more.

      • @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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        2•1 year ago

        Dahu-gate

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    11•1 year ago

    Gatesgate. Put down the bong dude.

  • Madlaine
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    5•1 year ago

    Bills Gate

  • theodewere
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    5•1 year ago

    a scandal involving paper money could be a Bills Gate

  • @Klear@sh.itjust.works
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    5•1 year ago

    Relevant Mitchell and Webb

    • @lingh0e@sh.itjust.works
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      2•1 year ago

      Beat me to it.

  • @DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    5•1 year ago

    Bill Gate²

    • @someguy3@lemmy.worldOP
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      2•1 year ago

      Bill Gates²÷s

  • Unaware7013
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    4•1 year ago

    Matt Gaetz tried that shit a few years ago when his taste in younger women (and maybe men, who knows) came to light, but I was really hoping people would have gone with “Pizza-Gaetz” just because it was more clever and pointed out that he was a sex trafficker to a minor.

  • @Michal@programming.dev
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    3•1 year ago

    Why not Bill Watergates?

    • @Alwaysfallingupyup@lemmy.world
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      1•1 year ago

      Bill Windowgates

  • @spudwart@spudwart.com
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    1•1 year ago

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