# Gaudere **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 13, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070 "2004-03-13T13:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/81 "2004-03-17T00:05:45Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > For anyone keeping score at home (assuming I haven’t flubbed myself out of this), FPPIS means, IIRC, first person present indicative singular. It’s a fancy way of saying, essentially, “I am saying this in the singular right now and it is declarative (i.e. not conditional, not a mood).” > > My latin teachers never did agree on the pronunciation of words starting with I/J. Two of them had the words starting with I, which made for a lot of confusion when I got to high school and my teacher there had them all starting with J. “Dr. Stevens, what’s this Jacere verb here?” “Jaco, jacere, to hold.” “But isn’t that Iacere?” “Same verb, my boy.” Too, I was taught first that iam is pronounced I am (roughly. Them I get to HS and they pronounce it much like yam (more like yahm, but yeah). > > if it helps you, the subjunctive first person plural (I think … it’s been so long that I don’t remember what ver tense “Let us rejoice”) is gaudeamus, which says to me that it’s probably gaudeo fppis. > > Does this count as the most pointless hijack ever? No, this is more pointless: “Gaudeamus Igitur”, “Let us therefore rejoice”, is, of course, a German student song featured in Brahms’s “Academic Festival Overture” which he wrote as a thank-you for an honorary doctorate conferred on him by Breslau University. As I originally heard the story, he forgot to say thank you in the first place and so wrote this splendied overture by way of apology. It went down a storm and in consequence I, for one, have known what “Gaudeamus” meant since I studied the A.F.O. for music O-level back in the 1970s. Churchill was no great lover of modern “classical” Latin pronunciation. He found it hard to picture Caesar saying “Wainy weedy weeky”. 🙂 And I’m not getting into any limerick competitions with **EddyTeddyFreddy** or **Hamadryad** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/82 "2004-03-17T01:20:51Z")
With limericks witty and sly **Hamadryad** and **ETF** vie To praise our **Gaudere**. But, loath to compare, eh? **Malacandra** says, “I’ll go get pie.” ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/83 "2004-03-17T01:23:59Z")
An administrator Gaudere shines like Morning sun on rose petals ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/84 "2004-03-17T01:43:32Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > With limericks witty and sly > **Hamadryad** and **ETF** vie > To praise our **Gaudere**. > But, loath to compare, eh? > **Malacandra** says, “I’ll go get pie.” While **Ilsa\_Lund** uses Japan For his prose which, with no rhyme, still scans\* **EDT** and I Use a verse-form that’s wry; But we’re doing the best that we can! **EFT** and I rhyme, one supposes But we both come up smelling like roses. We’ll both have high places In **Gaudere** ’s graces And powder the brown on our noses. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/85 "2004-03-17T01:47:56Z")
Crap. The \* was supposed to be: - I apologize for the plural. My brain is mush. I went to a stealth PTA meeting tonight. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/86 "2004-03-17T01:55:10Z")
**Hamadryad** stays True to the limerick form To laud **Gaudere**. **Ilsa\_Lund** broadens Multiculturally our **Gaudere** gushings. **Malacandra** still Prefers to bring back pie for Gladdened **Gaudere**. **ETF** blathers; Never knows when to shut up. Who let the cat out? 😃😉🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/87 "2004-03-17T02:05:43Z")
**Hamadryad** praises **Gaudere** With flowery verse of that town in the land of green 'Tis that prose that holds to us and ours near The memory of the rhyme, as many have seen For 'tis not the skill in the words so sweet That tells of of their devotion Lest for those who shan’t find it neat Shall raise the quietest of commotions As the sun rises eternal on an administrator’s hat So too shall their thankless duty continue Though we know in our hearts one shall go to bat For she hath construction of sinew **Gaudere** rules always fair One of the few, an SDMB mare I don’t need any fucking Iambic Pentameter in _MY_ sonnets! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/88 "2004-03-17T02:25:58Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > No, this is more pointless: “Gaudeamus Igitur”, “Let us therefore rejoice”, is, of course, a German student song featured in Brahms’s “Academic Festival Overture” which he wrote as a thank-you for an honorary doctorate conferred on him by Breslau University. As I originally heard the story, he forgot to say thank you in the first place and so wrote this splendied overture by way of apology. It went down a storm and in consequence I, for one, have known what “Gaudeamus” meant since I studied the A.F.O. for music O-level back in the 1970s. Once again, the Straight Dope gives me new insight into an [obscure Flanders and Swann songs](http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fas/bestiary_wompom.html). Oh, and my contribution to the verse: - Gaudere… I once just saw a post by Gaudere… Now when I read The Dope I wish she would elope, with me Gaudere… Some racists got banned by Gaudere… Sent back into their holes Just like all socks and trolls, she sees Gaudere… She is tough but she’s not a meanie Gaudere… I’m still dreaming about that bikini Gaudere… I still can’t pronounce it… Gaudere \* ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/89 "2004-03-17T02:53:56Z")
> [@Gaudere](#): > > I don’t believe I have ever owned a black string bikini. I do have a red one with yellow flames, though. That’s absurd, you know. No one here would flame you for wearing a red string bikini. Now, where’s that jpeg? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/90 "2004-03-17T03:04:10Z")
That tack of this thread has dissolved Into a nasty puddle. The ooze and goo we’ve spread within The OP, hence, to muddle. With haiku, limerick, sonnet, song We laud the great **Gaudere** Her constitution hard as rocks, Her face more sweet than Fay Wray. Fay Wray was she who met the beast In Harryhausen’s “Kong.” When heaping praise on an Admin No compliment’s too strong. Poor **Lib** has tried, without success To turn the Pit against her. He should have learned by now, I think His hands to sometimes CENSOR. It’s not that he’s not sometimes right. He’s made a point or three… But of his blunders, Pitizens Retain long memory. Well, anyhow, this hijack’s done. (I’m out of things to say, okay?) By entertaining anyone I’ve done what I love most. Good day! _ **bows** _ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/91 "2004-03-17T03:31:02Z")
How pleasing, **Libertarian** , To see your thread unleash Such praises nonsectarian For **Gaudere** , that peach! Did you expect, when first you wrote The OP for the Pit, That it would be an antidote To Dopers in a snit About some wrong, perceived or real, Perpetuated by A mod or an admin who’d deal With posters who defy The SDMB rules of con- Duct for this online town Of righties, lefties, off-and-on Pure nutcakes who will clown? Amid each endless great debate, And mundane, pointless stuff, The seeking intellect must rate **Gaudere** high enough To rank her with the fabled mods, Admins who tirelessly Protect the Dope from gormless clods Who’d troll our community. So who will next decide it’s cool To sing **Gaudere’s** praises? It’s tough to follow **MaxTheVool** Or **Hamadryad’s** graces. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/92 "2004-03-17T03:33:55Z")
I signed on to this message board To help out the ignorant hoard And then came **Gaudere** Who said, “I shouldn’t say But your postings have left me quite bored.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/93 "2004-03-17T03:40:08Z")
**ETF** likes to dote on her cats Dressing them uo in bright hats To her nothing is duller Than a mouse in a bowler Or Stetsons on vampire bats ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/94 "2004-03-17T03:45:37Z")
**Ilsa Lund** seems to like foriegn flicks And the name would remind you of chicks But you would feel like a wussie If you went for some pussy And then realised that girls don’t have dicks Sorry ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/95 "2004-03-17T03:58:10Z")
**ETF** , **Scylla** , and **Vool** for a picture they’d surely duel while here on my screen I have her in green Post it for all? I’m no Fool! ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/96 "2004-03-17T04:07:17Z")
The bikini is actually teal But she and I did make a deal No pictures for you, Though I’ve not one but two! no wrath of **Gaudere** I’ll feel ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/97 "2004-03-17T04:25:12Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > No, this is more pointless: “Gaudeamus Igitur”, “Let us therefore rejoice”, is, of course, a German student song featured in Brahms’s “Academic Festival Overture” which he wrote as a thank-you for an honorary doctorate conferred on him by Breslau University. As I originally heard the story, he forgot to say thank you in the first place and so wrote this splendied overture by way of apology. It went down a storm and in consequence I, for one, have known what “Gaudeamus” meant since I studied the A.F.O. for music O-level back in the 1970s. I suppose I shouldn’t mention that I’ve known the meaning of Gaudeamus since grade school? I’d go into the story of it, but I’m afraid of getting in the way of these poetic fools:D ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/98 "2004-03-17T04:26:18Z")
Wow, so many poems! Thanks, Hamadryad, EddyTeddyFreddy, Ilsa\_Lund, MaxTheVool and NoClueBoy. 🙂 I got a kick out of them. Mike, if you’re going to taunt the dopers you might not get to see my vacation pix anymore. 😉 At least not the ones where I go anyplace above 30 degrees Farenheit. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070/99 "2004-03-17T05:30:05Z")
**Gaudere** recently explained something to me in a way that made sense and sent my blood pressure back to normal levels. It pleased me that she took the time. And thanks, **Libertarian** , for the OP. For a _woman_, she’s really doing well. 😉 (Work with him, Gaudere!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaudere/234070.md?page=4)