WF - Gates (!)

gulyasrobi commented on the list gates

Ever since a New York Times columnist split the word 'Watergate' journalists looking for hype names for scandals keep implicitly suggesting that Nixon had a problem with Waters. Probably the most active nonsense suffix of all times.

June 2, 2012

fbharjo commented on the list gates

(*A PRE-WATERGATE TALE* :perhaps prophetically) with rapid-gates=(ski) shalom- *peace*-gates..(not to mention Bill Gates...(nothing to Shake-a-spear(e) at).. such is politics..... always was; always is, and in all ways will be! N.B. Polarity doesn't win. Closeness to the (center) middle poles (polls) wins!!

In 1962, Dom Andrew Jenks took us up to Boston (and route 128) to view a water-gate (read analog- gate) vs. a (read conception of an electronic gate) digital-gate (then)-early,bulky transistor. One of his previous students was theorizing the possibilities of an analog gate (read both/and) as opposed to a digital gate (read either/or). He had a large structure with a movable gate showing colored water flowing through various positioned closings of the gate to simulate analog gating versus digital gating.

Do-tell intel won the phyrric temp-victory (not the (war) outcome) but with fuzzy-grey logic the analog will eventually win the day, month, year, eon..... it is the the difference between the conifer (read digital pursuit) vs angiosperm (read analog pursuit)...maybe my view is too short-sighted *and probably is, was, and will-be*.

Simplicity wins the short-run(come); simple complexity wins the long-*(eternal)*run(come).

We are all fractions striving to become integers. one of Dom Jenk's quotes

one of Dom Jenk's students

“The mystery surrounding Dan gave rise to a thousand fantastic stories. I’m sure all of them were

true. He was a child prodigy, still a legend in the Harvard Math Department thirty years later. He

had invented a bawdy limerick for every geographic region on earth (“There once was a man from

Aberystwyth…”). In college, he fell sixty feet into a subway tunnel and landed on his head.

Somehow he climbed out and walked to the hospital on two broken legs.

This explained everything…”

Anonymous ‘68

from “Dom Andrew: A Paradoxical and Powerful Man”

June 3, 2012

bilby commented on the list gates

I was thinking just last week that -gate might have run its course here as we've had a long-running political scandal this year (and its roots go back four) and I haven't seen it referred to even once in the Australian press as Thompsongate.

If the scandal is big enough and complex enough I'm okay with the -gate suffix, it's probably a useful bit of shorthand despite the dubious derivation. For trite matters however I feel it's a cheap and annoying tactic of the media trying to justify their obsession with manufacturing scandal, especially when any two-bit celeb is involved.

June 3, 2012

leaden commented on the list gates

See also Bilbygate.

June 3, 2012

gulyasrobi commented on the list gates

More -gates (added 20 new scandals).

October 17, 2012