I think it originally came from a famous scene in "Animal House"

D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the frick happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my arse from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: *Let’s do it*!

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Posted by MiledV-TEC

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Member since Mar 2005

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Posted on 1/8/09 at 12:23 am to Oregon Tiger

DING DING DING We have a winner. Now someone explain to the poor boy why its used...

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Posted by ipodking

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Member since Jun 2008

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Posted on 1/8/09 at 12:46 am to TigerVision

damn this thread is germans!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by epbart

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Member since Mar 2005

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Posted on 1/8/09 at 1:34 am to TigerVision

It means someone is posting old news-- it is used primarily to tell Rantard "A" that Rantard "B" has already started a thread about the same topic, perhaps a few minutes or even days earlier. If Rantard "A" had searched for, and found, that older thread and started posting within that thread, then he/she would not elicit a "germans" response. If Rantard "A" fails to look and see that there are already 2 or 3 threads saying "Chavis is the new DC", then starts a new topic saying "Chavis is the new DC", then it will be old news and he/she will likely be told "Germans!", and also that they should participate in the other thread instead of starting a new one. It simply gets difficult to manage and participate in topics when 5 different people create new threads to say the same thing.

A few years ago, instead of saying "this is old news", to be smartasses, people started posting a picture of an old newspaper... most commonly that of a newspaper declaring that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. This evolved into saying the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor as a tribute to the scene from Animal House, which someone else just mentioned-- now it is simply shortened to "Germans!" without giving context.

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Posted by Mud

Member since Dec 2008

621 posts

Posted on 1/8/09 at 8:59 am to epbart

quote:
A few years ago, instead of saying "this is old news", to be smartasses, people started posting a picture of an old newspaper... most commonly that of a newspaper declaring that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. This evolved into saying the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor as a tribute to the scene from Animal House, which someone else just mentioned-- now it is simply shortened to "Germans!" without giving context.

This is the best definition yet...can someone post it in the FAQ's part of the board?

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