The word "Gate" at the end of words to describe a particular scandal

[bigbadwolf]

You can just picture the fine blood splatter on the headmasters forehead as he thrashes you for wearing gym shoes that squeaked, can't you Windom.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Started after the famous milk scandal involving Maggie Thatcher stopping the kids milk.

Cow'ngate it was called, if I remember rightly.

[bigbadwolf]

Seeing as you live in Kent Tony. I thought I'd just let you know that the collective groan triggered by that howler has just loosened the majority of my roof tiles.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Seeing as you live in Kent Tony. I thought I'd

> just let you know that the collective groan

> triggered by that howler has just loosened the

> majority of my roof tiles.

Don't worry bbw, some of the local ne'er do wells will remove the rest for you...

[Tony.London Suburbs]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Seeing as you live in Kent Tony. I thought I'd

> just let you know that the collective groan

> triggered by that howler has just loosened the

> majority of my roof tiles.

I am indeed a Man of Kent now bbw, as opposed to a Kentish Man. ( No-one could ever think I was one of those, schurely)..

At other times I say I live in (H)outer London..don't you know....

[James]

I like the Daily Mail approach of listing all persons involved (to be whispered with raised eyebrows in style of Hyacinth Bucket of Keeping Up Appearances):

"The Russian tycoon, his transsexual lover, her socialist parents and their illegal immigrant au pair"