The Tom Brady thing about deflated balls just won’t go away. This thing happened so long ago, I was like in my early to late 41’s when it came out. Here it is in August 2015 and it is still in the news. So much so, that it has received the prestigious seal of approval of the “gate” suffix.
I decided to look on Wikipedia all the scandals that had become gates, and realized there are so many scandals named after gate, that they had to break them up between sports, entertainment, politics and even technology.
All gate ever wanted to do was swing open and swing shut. Maybe keep a kid safe or prevent some “regular” person from walking into a rich community. But thanks to Water, gates are now involved in every single scandal from this one to that one. Do you think that scandals can just give “Gate” a break and let someone else take on the scandal suffix for once?
How about blinds or shutters or fences? Even the richest man in the world had to take the Gate name. What is going to happen when Bill Gates is involved in a scandal? Are they going to call it GateGate? I just can’t imagine how bitter gate must be when it gets lumped in with all the scandals. Just let the guy keep a flying dinosaur out, or block an army from getting into the castle instead of having to be embarrassed for Tom Brady’s deflations anymore.
ARRRGGGHHHHH
Bitter Gaterade Ben
Bitter Ben, you are often right in your bitterness, but rarely have you been so completely right. I say let’s relieve the gates of their bitterness, and let’s commemorate the Teapot Dome Scandal of the Warren Harding administration by calling every scandal a dome from now on. Tom Brady and Deflatedome sounds much more accurate and bitter, doesn’t it? J.
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I actually like the dome replacement word. It seems to give a scandal more room to become bigger as they always do when the little details come out.
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And then there’s BILLGates.
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Yeah he must be so bitter having to figure out how to spend all those billions.
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Got it. No -gate thing.
How does deflate-hinge work for you? Or deflate-door, maybe?
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Deflate-saw or deflate-trowel maybe.
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I nominate moats. They are outdated modes of defense and need something to do.
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That’s true. Moats seem to just kind of lay around. And really, they don’t even intimidate anyone anymore. OH NO, IT’S WATER! Maybe if they had crocs in them or something.
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Hahaha you bring up a wonderful point, Ben. Gates didn’t choose the scandal life, the scandal life chose it.
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I mean the only real gate was Watergate and that was only because that was the name of the building. Everything else should just be called the scandal plus whatever other tool is nearby when it happens.
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Hahaha I agree 100% Ben for president!
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Actually I want to be Vice President. Just sitting in the shadows being lazy. Hoping the President is in good health. Cause no one wants me running the country, or even the country club.
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Even better. Most of the perks but less work!
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Yeah, I’ve always wanted to work less and get paid more. The Vice President job would be the best.
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The least they could have done was try using a different spelling of it…like gait. :@)
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I know like Walkinggait.
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LOL
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Did you hear about Bittergate? What about BitterBenBergengate? What about Bitterbloggate? (I’m not sure if that one has two G’s or one…).
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Yeah, those were some really scandalous scandals. Can you believe how scandalous they got?
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They were so scandalous that right after they happened no one even mentioned them again.
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Which as you know, happens to us bloggers all the time, at least me. Maybe people mention your posts afterwards every once in a while.
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Or maybe not.
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I guess it is a possibility.
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Gotta add gate to any scandal to let people know it’s SERIOUS.
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I think it is time to start inventing tiny little scandals in my life and start calling them bittergates.
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I ordered two rolls for lunch today instead of my normal three and now I’m starving and angry I spent money and I’m still hungry. I shall refer to this as sushigate!
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It’s time for the scandal to be spread to all the newspapers! Or blogs because people actually read blogs! I’m hungry too and it is not even lunch time yet!
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