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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Snowclones, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Pompatus, Yakov Smirnoff, List of scandals with "-gate" suffix, Truthiness, Have Gun-Will Travel, Military-industrial complex, Metrosexual, The Little Engine That Could, 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, Eskimo words for snow, Dude, Where's My Car?, The new black, Considered harmful, Jumping the shark, What would Jesus do?, Regift, Got Milk?, Earworm, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, TPS report, Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten, Friend, It's the economy, stupid, The mother of all, No Sex Please, We're British, Thy name is, Very good very mighty, Machosexual, Neosexual, War to End All Wars. Excerpt: This is a list of actual or alleged scandals or controversies named with a "-gate" suffix, by analogy with the Watergate scandal. The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Watergate itself does not follow the -gate construction. The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965. In 18th century Ireland, Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore was nicknamed "Hellgate," and his siblings Henry, Augustus and Carolina were nicknamed Cripplegate, Newgate and Billingsgate respectively, due to their scandalous behaviour. All of these nicknames, except for "Hellgate," were after gates in the walls of the City of London. The suffix is used to embellish a noun or name to suggest the existence of a far-reaching scandal. As a CBC News Online column noted in 2001, the term may "suggest unethical behaviour and a cover-up." The same usage has spread into languages other than English; examples of...