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Bono apologizes for AlbumGate -- (link)

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 14 '14, 16:37

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/14/6979103/bono-apologizes-for-putting-u2s-new-album-in-everyones-icloud-library (www.theverge.com)

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but who is going to apologize for the nonsensical affixing of -gate to every scandal???....nm - x Oct 14, 16:39 18
- PortculisGate -- nm - Max Oct 14, 16:50
- Nixon, oh he's dead -- nm - Bacon Oct 14, 16:48
- Not me! -- nm - BeryGate Oct 14, 16:47 1
  - loser -- nm - SpawnDorf Oct 14, 16:57
- x-gate -- nm - budice Oct 14, 16:47
- One of my pet peeves. Watergate was not a scandal about water. Drives me crazy. -- nm - Volnelk Oct 14, 16:40 11
  - Did you see the comment a few weeks ago that if Watergate had happened at the Waldorf, all scandals would be suffixed with -Dorf? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 16:48 8
    - Now that would be an alternative universe worth living in. -- nm - Reagen Oct 14, 16:55 5
      - I've actually been meaning for a while to posit that -gate is one of the biggest legacies of any president. No scandal seems immune to it (e.g. Bridge -- nm - The Zorking Dead Oct 14, 18:08
      - I think the first joke I saw about it referenced the "WorfDorf scandal" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 14, 17:01
      - But what if we found out that Tim Conway wasn't really involved in any way with Dorf on Golf? - prayformojo Oct 14, 16:57 2
        
        So, add PFM to the list that have me blocked. -- nm - SpawnDorf Oct 14, 16:58 1
        
        naturally - prayformojo Oct 14, 17:00
    - Dorf-on-Golfdorf -- nm - Spawn the Impaler Oct 14, 16:50 1
      - This amusement will carry me through the evening. -- nm - Max Oct 14, 16:51
  - So should it be called Watergategate then? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 14, 16:42 1
    - Gateaffixgate started here. -- nm - Loyola Oct 14, 16:43
- fucking Bill Gates -- nm - Beaker Oct 14, 16:39

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