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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: Townhallsavoy on September 11, 2011, 10:37:02 AM

Title: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: Townhallsavoy on September 11, 2011, 10:37:02 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOHnELqzkDM

Title: Re: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: AUChizad on September 12, 2011, 10:03:31 AM

Better Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgF6UJ5UgUs&feature=player_embedded

BTW, I know "Germans" is TigerDroppings for "old". Why?

Title: Re: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: wesfau2 on September 12, 2011, 10:09:10 AM

Quote from: AUChizad on September 12, 2011, 10:03:31 AM

BTW, I know "Germans" is TigerDroppings for "old". Why?

Something that is old news is posted.  The pile-on begins:  We landed on the moon!; Columbus discovers the new world!; The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (nod to Animal House).

That last one just gets shortened to "Germans...".

Title: Re: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: Townhallsavoy on September 12, 2011, 10:10:05 AM

It's not endemic to Tigerdroppings. 

It's an internet saying for old news.  Some people (who knows where or when - I think it was Fark, actually) started saying "We landed on the moon!" to people posting old news.  Then someone said "Pearl Harbor was bombed!"  And then the classic Animal House "Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!"  Finally to just "Germans" which stuck indefinitely.

Title: Re: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: AUChizad on September 12, 2011, 10:11:38 AM

Quote from: wesfau2 on September 12, 2011, 10:09:10 AM

Something that is old news is posted.  The pile-on begins:  We landed on the moon!; Columbus discovers the new world!; The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor (nod to Animal House).

That last one just gets shortened to "Germans...".

That's what I figured. The historically inaccurate one that is an indirect reference to a movie (The quote is an entirely different context, asking if it was over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor) is the one that sticks. "Moon" would be a more appropriate abbreviation.

Title: Re: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: chinook on September 12, 2011, 10:18:38 AM

i thought this was a thread about das kehlsteinhaus.   

Title: Re: Sorry if Germans, but the Eagle's Beak Needs to Be Fixed
Post by: Buzz Killington on September 12, 2011, 10:19:34 AM

Quote from: nookie on September 12, 2011, 10:18:38 AM

i thought this was a thread about das kehlsteinhaus.

No, but he did have a nice TD catch on Saturday.