I haven't been following this thread closely, so forgive me if this has 
already been mentioned, but surely "uber noob", "uber nerd", "uber geek" 
  and the like are coined after the model of Nietzsche's Übermensch.

Karl

MC Johnstone wrote:
> STAHLKE, HERBERT F wrote:
>> About the only German use of "ueber" that most Americans are aware of 
>> is in the title of the national anthem, and that only because of the 
>> notoriety the Nazis gave it.  So it gets borrowed with a high back 
>> rounded vowel and the sense "excessive(ly)".
>>
>> Herb
> Well, there is also the song, "California Uber Alles", circa 1979 by the 
> Dead Kennedy's, a punk band from San Francisco. I see uber used as a 
> kind of superlative on the net, but have no idea how mainstream it has 
> become. A common sighting in the wild is "uber noob". This is mostly 
> confined to the gaming community. This sense seems more like "super" 
> than "excessively".
> 
> Mark
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