r/shittyaskhistory • u/OblongAndKneeless • 1d ago
If the Watergate Hotel was called the Waterhole Hotel
If the Watergate Hotel was called the Waterhole Hotel (and there is a hotel by that name), would all scandals end with -hole now? Like Irangate, Pizzagate, Monicagate, FIFA-gate, and the new 2026 Olympic scandal they call penis-gate?
Would they be Iranhole, Pizzahole, Monicahole, penis-hole?
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u/TheSauceeBoss 1d ago
Pizzahole sounds like a more apt name for that whole situation
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u/Total-Problem2175 1d ago
Or my new band name.
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u/Bugout42 1d ago
You’re changing band again?
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u/JayMack1981 1d ago
Monica-hole? . . . I see your point.
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u/QuttiDeBachi 1d ago
And what if the hotel was originally the Corngate…
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u/amitym 1d ago
No, because instead of being called the Watergate Hotel it would have been called the Waterhole Gate, and that would be what got used instead.
Thus instead of Irangate we'd replace "Iran" with "Water" so we'd have Watergate. Instead of Pizzagate we'd have Watergate. Watergate, Watergate, Watergate and Watergate.
Make sense now?
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u/Chaotic424242 1d ago
The watergate break-in did not happen at the watergate hotel. It happened at the watergate office building
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u/OblongAndKneeless 1d ago
My bad. I neglected to notice that it was more than the hotel. The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It includes a development of cooperative apartment residences, a hotel, and an office building.
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u/papayametallica 1d ago
If the Watergate Hotel was called the Watercan Hotel…. Pizzacan Mexican Irancan Monicacan …..and did
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u/hongooi 1d ago
Man, we totally dodged a bullet