"... AdScam the proud Canuckian Scam Scandal ..."

Glad, real glad actually that someone in the media didn't tag the largest scandal in Canadian history, "Adgate". That would have been a huge insult to our national pride. I cringe when I recall "Shawinigate" or "Strippergate". At least "AdScam" makes it our scam and doesn't get it confused with any other scam!

"AdScam" could quite easily have been called "CanScam" but I kind of like the 'roots' connotation to the title "AdScam", going back to the Montreal advertising agencies at the heart of this Canuckian embarrassment. At least we have a name for our scandal that nobody can say we copied from our Yankee cousins. I was really getting tired of the "...gate" suffix being appended to every public no-no happening in the past 30 years.

Who knows? Maybe the next American scandal will be tagged with the "...Scam" suffix. How about "IntelliScam" for the next intelligence gathering boondoggle cooked up by some American Alphabet Spy Agency - the AASA. That just got me to wondering - how on Earth did the word "intelligence" ever get associated with espionage? Especially considering the sleaziness of the whole business. It probably comes from that same pool of reasoning that refers to purjury as "selective amnesia".

Anyhow..., "AdScam" the proud Canuckian Scam Scandal that's all ours.

Check back regularly, no telling what little nugget of gnarled knowledge or whimsical wisdom you're going to unearth here but it could be an 'intelligence nugget' - that would be like calling a "rabbit turd" a "smart pill".

Hasta La L8r Señor ...gate Tagger

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