And pass the ham-munition!
I predict… lel 
Before this thread I had no idea how old Gaudere was, and the OP had me imagining her as an elderly shut-in! I’m glad to know that she’s really a spring chicken. 
'Course, we had it toof.
There were two hundred of us dying from consumption in shoe box in middle of road.
All we could do was to wheeze in morse code to get bit of cold gravel to fill our empty bellies…
Og smash heritic Lard-worshipper!
god isn’t evil, it’s too lazy for that. It’s just a sadist.
I was out-of-line, Lib. Sorry.
Well, she’s been a mod as long as I’ve been a member, and I joined in '01. You have to be at least 21 to be a mod, which means she’s at least 25. Calling an adult woman “young with limited life experience” is patronizing at best. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t be thrilled at a compliment like that. I’d be annoyed and yeah depending on the context, maybe offended.
shrug Maybe I’m projecting. Maybe Guadere is a child prodigy. Maybe she wouldn’t be the least bit annoyed at being praised for being so gosh darn smart for somebody so obviously inexperienced. Maybe Libertarian meant it in the nicest possible way. I guess that’s what’s limiting about text-only communication–sometimes it’s difficult to know just what somebody means.
I mean that she is wonderful. As someone twice her age, I get to call her young. 
As someone who just recently got over being young and female (still female, time tends to change the young part), I always really tried to give people the benefit of the doubt about being “charming” over “patronizing.” But, Lib, I’m going to tell you that sometimes it was darn hard – and that sometimes people who referred to my age and/or gender when giving a compliment (as in “limited life experience”) had very little understand of how much “living” I’d managed to pack into my fewer years - I was often better educated and better travelled with a broader career background, a wide circle of diverse friends and a few hard knocks that had given me perspective people twice my age that hadn’t travelled, knew a bunch of people just like them, and had a homogeneous background didn’t.
Gaudere IS pretty incredible. As a mod, she is incredible regardless of if she is female, male or other - twenty five or sixty - rode hard and put away wet or cloistered. That she happens to look better in a bikini than most other mods due to her age and gender (Coldfire being, of course, the notable exception) is icing on the cake (and not terribly relevant given the nature of a message board). Of course, most of our mods are pretty incredible human beings.
:: looks at Join Date ::
Hummm… 
Dangerosa, I understand. I wouldn’t be at all hurt if someone wanted to open a thread complaining about how old-fashioned I am, how insensitive I am to the age-impaired, and how no matter what I say I must have meant something inexplicably horrible. I have, however, explained what I mean. (Incredibly, it was necessary.)
Meanwhile, let’s use this thread not to bash one another, but to praise Gaudere.
Praise be to Gaud - ere!
By the way, some trivia:
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Gaudere is pronounced gaw-DAY-ray.
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My first couple of weeks here, I thought she was male, and I thought that DavidB was her lover (due to context of some threads).
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She became an admin when she volunteered to help Tuba Diva navigate the other site that hosted us for a while. (During that time, by the way, Tuba paid for the board out of her own pocket).
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Fenris wrote a cool ode to her back in '01. http://www.teemings.com/extras/mods/fenris05.html
I did not need that image in my mind.
And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.
Ahhh, nothing like a little blasphemy on Sunday morning.
Gaudere is great! In addition to BBQ she’s also a fan of dim sum, which adds to her coolness. As to her age, she looks younger than me, older than 21, is smart, attractive, friendly, and plays in a weekly kickball game. Given the kickball she is at least young at heart. And she does a damned fine job as a Mod.
Fair enough.
Lib, I think you are charming and old fashioned and not being intentionally patronizing. You can compliment me with words like “girl” or “sweet” or “dear” if you want. (Unlike december, who I once pitted for referring to me as “dear” in a thread on feminism. That seemed patronizing.)
:: waving madly, jumping up and down ::
Lib, over here, over here! You can call me young, too. Please? Pretty please with real maple syrup on it??
:: panting to a halt, middle-aged lungs heaving ::
Hey, don’t knock it until you’ve seen it, dude.