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Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:45 AM
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I’m probably infringing on some secret society handshake stuff here but does anyone have the origin story on the use of the term “Germans” on Tigernet?
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:47 AM
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You been around 24 years and don't know? Now I gots the confuse.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:48 AM
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I know what it means, just not sure how it came to prominence
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:47 AM
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I've been lurking and rarely commenting for 10 years on Tigernet and I have no idea lol. I've wondered the same.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:50 AM
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I don't have the exact story but the paraphrased version of it is there was a poster who meant to type "germain" but ended up with Germans. Spellchecker is probably the culprit but it was funny and so it stuck. Kind of like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor........
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Re: Origin of Germans- the old movie line
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:48 AM
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"was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor"
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Re: Origin of Germans- the old movie line
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:51 AM
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It has been a while since I have searched for it but at one point there was a "dictionary" post with quite a few of the sayings that Tigernet adopted over time
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:50 AM
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It stems from the John Belushi line in Animal House, was it over when the “Germans bombed Pearl Harbor “. Not saying that necessarily makes sense, but that was the original reference and it morphed. Anyone else care to add to this?
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:05 AM
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It stems from the John Belushi line in Animal House, was it over when the “Germans bombed Pearl Harbor “. Not saying that necessarily makes sense, but that was the original reference and it morphed. Anyone else care to add to this?
Not sure but it probably comes from the line in Animal House that follows the "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" quote
Leave him alone, he's on a roll.
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:51 AM
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which is a quote from the movie Animal House.
In TigerNet lingo, it was shortened to simply "Germans" meaning something that is well-known but still repeated/posted ad nauseam.
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Re: Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:59 AM
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Haha, pretty sure I triggered this discussion with an earlier post. I hope I didn’t nauseate anyone, though it appears I did from some of the replies!
It’s all good; it’s a message board.
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I dont suppose the TNet dictionary is still around is it?
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Jan 3, 2024, 9:59 AM
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Message was edited by: STERLING®
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I think it is...
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:04 AM
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Someone posted link to Volume 1 and Volume 2 a few weeks ago.
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Re: Here you go...
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Jan 3, 2024, 12:34 PM
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Thanks. This is the origin. Much appreciated
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Re: Here you go...
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Jan 3, 2024, 12:49 PM
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This is accurate, I was here for all of it.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:05 AM
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As alluded to by many here, it originated from a phrase people have always used to mean old news "Japan bombs Pearl Harbor".
When the Jim Belushi's character Bluto in Animal House was trying to rally the frat brothers, he used the phrase "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!"
Somehow "Germans.." morphed into the new way to convey "Old News".
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 1:28 PM
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T'was John that played Bluto, not little brother Jim.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:08 AM
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I assumed that someone wrote something like, “it’s probably not germane, but…..”. Then in short order, one of our resident class clowns turned that into, “probably Germans”.
The origin doesn’t really matter if you take it with a grade of slaw.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:15 AM
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I used to work with a guy that was born in Germany and raised in Norway. He turned, “it’s a dog eat dog world” into, “it’s a doggy dog world”. The greatness of it was, he didn’t know he was saying it wrong.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 12:54 PM
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“Why, that’s not even a blimp on the radar. “
-my dumb@$$ old boss, actual quote.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 1:17 PM
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A work colleague, describing how a relative in law enforcement managed to escape a dicey situation where a suspect was fighting him for his gun:
“He was finally able to seduce him.”
I was driving at the time and almost lost control of the car.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:25 AM
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I had to google it a few years back, everything I saw said it was standard message board slang originating from the fact in Nazi Germany they would hold off on broadcasting world news until it fit their agenda, therefore broadcasting it late.
TLDR late or repeated news = Germans
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:33 AM
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Wow I always thought it was from sheriff Buford T Justice “the g dang Germans got nothin to do with it!” As in a topic or reply not germane to the discussion or purpose of the bored.
Learn something every day!
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I think it predates my 2004 entry to TNET. Definitely was a thing then, as it is
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:34 AM
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today.
I lived in Eugene once I graduated from Clemson. It’s where Animal House was filmed.
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Re: Origin of Germans
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Jan 3, 2024, 10:35 AM
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You've obviously never seen the movie "1941"?
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This is Germans I'm certain, but...
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Jan 3, 2024, 11:38 AM
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... whatever. 
See answers posted above.
Reviews any pigs provided carefully, too.
Good day.
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National Lampoon's Animal House. "Was it over when the Germans bombed
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Jan 3, 2024, 12:37 PM
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Pearl Harbor? NOOOO, it wasn't over then, and it ain't over NOW!"
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