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Re: Chuck Norris has died

#81

Death had to take Chuck Norris sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.

Haha, good one. I will have to steal this one for my upcoming valedictorian speech. The crowd is going to love it.

I believe it's stolen from a quote said about Teddy Roosevelt

https://markloveshistory.com/2018/01/06/death-had-to-take-ro...

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#85

There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going…

Was this before or after Mike Huckabee started publicly offering Chuck Norris as his solution to "border security" on the campaign trail?

Re: Chuck Norris has died

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post #70

There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” this stupid app when I was like 13, copy-pasted like 300 jokes in there and a random one would show every time you tapped the screen. Chuck Norris’s estate blocked the app from going…

It was so funny how that whole thing happened. For the first time in over a decade he was suddenly relevant in a way. People remembered he existed, and they were playing off his tough guy image. And what did he do? Try and shut it down and start suing people. Stupid. It took him a couple of years to come around to it. If it wasn’t for those jokes would he be remembered anywhere as well? Or would he be a much more obs…

> would he be remembered anywhere as well?

You underestimate how popular Walker, Texas Ranger was. It wasn't pulling ratings like Seinfeld, ER, or Friends, but it was a solid primetime staple for almost a decade.

I never watched it myself, but the 50+ demo loved it.

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post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except is was said by Vice President Thomas R. Marshall upon Theodore Roosevelt’s death and co-opted as a Chuck Norris joke.

It's a kickass obituary, no matter the subject!

I agree!

It is funny because you usually think of Death as something inevitable and people just accept it but then ... some of these guys put up a fight. Mega-LMAO!

Re: Chuck Norris has died

#88
post #62

one of my favorite stack overflow questions: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911

Some recent discussion on that one a couple Advents ago:

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/20/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468318)

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