Who names the F1 scandals of late?

[Whilhelm]

Why other than the use of the word "gate" in the watergate scandal, are all of these F1 scandals attaching "gate" to the end?

Crash-gate, Lie-gate, Stepney-gate...

They need to come up with a more original method of naming all the scandals, Perhaps a numbering system of some sort..

This is getting rediculous.

Is there some sort of assosication with gates and scandals that I am unaware of?

Good lord, as I was writing this I came across this list of other gate scandals. There are a few F1 scandals in there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sc ... %22_suffix


So all it is is watergate. That is the only reason. I have answered my own question and now I don't see the point in posting this. But I wrote it all and I think it is worth sharing, if not for a bit of a laugh.

[hpras]

I think it's 'cuz Stepney-Mosley just sounds bad. So does Crash-Bernie.

[King Six]

It's the media that do it. But yeah, the -gate suffix does seem to be applied to F1 more than usual.

It's not their fault that so many scandals have come within a relatively small amount of time. Once they had their first F1 -gate suffix scandal the rest of the scandals just kept flowing and they just kept on using it.

Ah well... it's funny at least

[tarzoon]

I think it's 'cuz Stepney-Mosley just sounds bad. So does Crash-Bernie.

and how does crash-spank or crash-max (should be read as 'crash-tmas') sound like?


Revenge is a dish served cold...

[vyselegend]

LOL I can't wait for a future scandal revolving around unpaid bills:
Bill gate's scandal, sounds fun!

[Ray]

Richard Nixon.

[xxChrisxx]

I absolutely HATE the suffix 'gate'. It was fine for Watergate, and maybe fine if it was used sparingly for a very very high profile scandal.

When its banded round and used for everything that is even slighty controversial it both looses its effect. More importantly it just winds me up.


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[ISLAMATRON]

It wasnt a suffix when used for Watergate... but I can understand why it might have been used for spy-gate with the CIA type spying McLaren was accused of... after that it i just a case of unimaginative naming by jouranlists... nothing new there.

[xxChrisxx]

It wasnt a suffix when used for Watergate... but I can understand why it might have been used for spy-gate with the CIA type spying McLaren was accused of... after that it i just a case of unimaginative naming by jouranlists... nothing new there.

Oh indeed, that was my point. In my mind it should be only used for the Watergate scandal as that was the hotels name. why was the gate bit singled out...

I can see the justification as to the McLaren spy thing, but still its a stretch.

I just hate the fact its become the de facto standard for 'a situation that is slightly amiss'. What next, spilt water bottle -gate?

[ISLAMATRON]

it is quite generic... but then again I dont think that most americans actually understand the huge implications of watergate

[jon-mullen]

it is quite generic... but then again I dont think that most americans actually understand the huge implications of watergate

Not surprising at all. You know I had three "American History" courses between middle school and high school and not once did we make it to the 70s? Spent too much time on Columbus not raping or pillaging and the Jamestown settlers not importing slaves after a year of being unable to feed themselves. If someone did a poll on Watergate or Iran-Contra in my age group you'd get a lot of confused looks.

Back OT, it seems like journalists started using "-gate" almost immediately afterward. I guess all journalists deep down fancy themselves Woodward and Bernstein.

[Confused_Andy]

Diffuser-gate... uggg *shudders*

[TheMinister]

I was disappointed by this latest scandal being called crashgate; we had just got a neat rhyming thing going on, with spygate and liegate... why not call it "piquet-might-have-diedgate"....

[Confused_Andy]

I was disappointed by this latest scandal being called crashgate; we had just got a neat rhyming thing going on, with spygate and liegate... why not call it "piquet-might-have-diedgate"....

Brilliant!

[sknguy]

This is a really crashgate: