Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
I had to go Googling to figure out what the joke is here!

The best explanation that I found was:

"с гадами приходит отрицательный опыт, а с годами, в которые не встречались гады - положительный."

Aha, now I get it!
Throbert - гАдами in this context originally can be understood as a word гОдами with an orphoraphy mistake (an unstressed wovel in the root). The joke is that these two words can be separate lexical units.