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[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

After decades of journalists attaching the suffix "gate" to anything even remotely scandalous, I was disappointed that I never heard anyone embrace the full stupidity of this practice by referring to this story as "Oceangate-gate"

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

After some thought, I've decided that we should refer to this apparent lapse by journalists as "Oceangate-gate-gate"

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