If I didn’t know any better, I’d call that a thinly veiled insult in the guise of a complement.
Ty Cobb, on Babe Ruth: “He ran pretty well for a fat man!”
This seems to be a common retort to threads like this, or to threads apologising about stuff, or to threads about why The Dope does certain things, yada, yada.
(I’m not singling out Demo)
Which leads me to say:
It’s a public message board. When a thread is closed with a snarky remark, or a Doper has a virtual meltdown, or a new rule seems to have been made and used… then the reply or question SHOULD BE AS PUBLIC as the original thing which brings up the reply or questions. Why should it be secret? Especially when the thing which gives birth to such threads is NOT private?
No shit. Talk about a back-handed compliment.
I agree with Libertarian. (Hah, I said it.) Gaudere, IMHO, has the fewest administrative decisions with which I disagree. Kudos, and thank you for doing a thankless job.
Well, I found this picture when I did an image search for “Gaudere”, but I’m pretty sure it’s not her.
No, she’s much better looking than that.
I believe this picture of Gaudere, proves that yes, she is a woman.
:o She also appears to be pretty hot
Appearance in this case is not deceiving. SDMB Male to female ratio notwithstanding, Gaudere has been fairly well surrounded (from what I remember, anyway) by male dopers each time I have seen her.
I disagree. How is it insulting to call somebody “young”? A little patronizing perhaps, but not insulting.
Of course, it’s been a while since anybody called me young, so maybe my memory is going. You damn kids. Get outta my yard! Back in my day we used to wear an onion on belt, which was the fashion at the time…
Well, who’s to say she’s not, Cranky? I for one don’t know anything about Gaudere. She could be a child prodigy.
What did you wear for an off belt? In my day, it was a rutabaga, but all the kids care about these days is kumquats.
We were EVICTED from our hole in the ground. We had to go and live in a lake!
Least you got a lake. We had to live in a puddle. A dried-up puddle.
You had a puddle*? We woulda killed to have a puddle (even a dried up one). We didn’t even have water. We had to drink hydrogen and oxygen atoms and make sure we took twice as many hydrogen ones.
You had hydrogen? All we had was helium, and the other kids used to laugh at our voices.
You had voices!?
I can’t even think of a funny reply to that.
NoClueBoy is the best.
(they had clues back then?)
I yam crushed.
I assumed it was my Lard thread that allowed you to accept jesus as your personal Savior.
praise the lard!