I semi-regularly notice on the Internet this morbid fascination Americans have with everything German.
On forums I frequent, some guys like to appear all smart by using german words in, shall we say, creative ways (zeitgeist!!). Some bits and snippets about perceived German oddities also surface (everyone knows that the Germans want to rule the world by some evil scheme, and that cuddly chancellor Merkel is just a diversion, right). Here's a new entry in the LOL! German cliches series:

Awesome.

Gertrud is not to be messed with!
Oh and, no one of that age is called Gertrud anymore. Nor Hans, nor Karl. It is anachronistic. It's all "Jennifer!!!" and "Patrick!" now. Not to mention "Jaqueline".

edit; and let's not forget the infamous "Keviiiiiin!", that one is horrible.