Sopan Deb at the New York Times:
Chuck Norris once gave a horse an uppercut and now we have giraffes.
Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits.
Chuck Norris is so tough he can slam a revolving door.
Chuck Norris’s calendar goes straight from March 31 to April 2, because no one fools Chuck Norris.
There was a time — in the days when the internet was still a force for fun — when Chuck Norris jokes flooded our screens.
It was the mid-2000s. Twitter and Facebook were not yet ascendant. We weren’t yet glued to our phones. People were still making prank calls using Jack Black soundboards. We allowed Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” to become a megahit.
And Norris unwittingly became a pioneer of memedom.
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