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Re: Chuck Norris has died

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Post by bell-cot »

ourmandave wrote: post #118
5555624 wrote: post #68

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Shades of Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse," Death showed up to take Chuck Norris and Chuck killed him, taking his place.

I loved that series, until the last book. Maybe the novelty had worn off. It's been a long time since I read it, but didn't the current Death decide to retire and pass the role on?

If you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Velvet_Cloak - note that it was written a couple decades after the prior books of the series, for a different publisher, to a different length. Those would be yellow flags with almost any author.

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Post by dfxm12 »

alias_neo wrote: post #185
dfxm12 wrote: post #66

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If you're curious, maybe you can look into Chuck's lawsuit against Penguin's book of Chuck Norris facts. He would eventually "co-author" his own book. The obvious guess here is trademark infringement (over use of Chuck's name/likeness) and/or copyright (if some of these facts were lifted from his book).

Interesting. I get the likeness thing, but surely one could publish jokes about anyone they wish and that would be satire or fair use or something? Facts and copyright is an interesting one, because I'm surprised a fact can be copyrighted, unless it's the wording specifically.

For better or worse, in the US you can pretty much sue anyone for anything. A court certainly requires more evidence to declare liability than Apple would to remove an app.

As far as copywriting facts, are you really under the impression that Chuck Norris is the only man who can factually slam a revolving door? :)

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Post by QuiEgo »

willio58 wrote: post #31

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…

The expendables had a scene that was basically the meme in live action, highly recommend. It’s all over YouTube.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #199
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #172

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Again he still signed it. It’s like Susan Collins who always has “serious misgivings” about things that her fellow Republicans do and then votes the party line anyway trying to stay in her party’s good graces while at the same time not pissing off her liberal constituents

> Again he still signed it. It was gonna be law either way; signing it removed a political weapon from the folks pushing its passage. Arguing this is something Clinton did to gay people is counterfactual.

That’s a really poor excuse to sign on to something that you disagree with. I would not sign a petition for making the “Confederacy Day” law if I lived in Mississippi just because it would become law anyway. You have to stand for something.

Would you think it was okay if Tim Scott signed such a law just so his fellow Republicans couldn’t hold it against him in the primary? Well actually I wouldn’t be surprised if he did…

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Post by Kye »

ceejayoz wrote: post #138
jayGlow wrote: post #121

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it's possible to disagree with someone politically and still acknowledge their positive aspects.

To Godwin a little, Hitler's veganism doesn't make him a "role model", even if you think veganism is a good thing.

Fortunately Godwin's law was only an observation of a tendency and, as Godwin himself clarified, not a proscription against an apt comparison.

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Post by Cpoll »

willio58 wrote: post #31

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…

Having been near the epicenter, I recall that Vin Diesel jokes (same format) pre-dated Chuck Norris ones. I always found it a shame that the Chuck Norris ones caught on; Vin Diesel is, imo, a better role model.

I bet Vin wouldn't have blocked your app.

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Post by supern0va »

krapp wrote: post #94
kstrauser wrote: post #69

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I guess it’s a generational thing, because I shouldn’t actually be surprised that someone would know so very little about Chuck Norris.

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>He was a typical pro-gun anti-abortion homophobic and racist MAGA Christian conservative.

Sure, but let's be real: people here are hardly mourning the man himself, so much as a few ideas of him from media they loved, and the cultural impact of Chuck Norris memes from their childhood and such.

He's not around anymore to bolster any hateful messages. Let people have a moment of nostalgia for memories watching him roundhouse kick bad guys with their grandma, or dumb Chuck Norris memes on the playground. That's what people remember.

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Post by saintfire »

ryandrake wrote: post #186
phishin wrote: post #168

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Imagine basing your entire opinion on a man about how they feel about that other man.

Imagine having a lot of people you once admired and looked up to as role models, from actors all the way to even your parents, suddenly all within a decade or so take their masks off and reveal that they are actually villains.

Is it revelatory that human beings having a quality you admire aren't the ideal person you projected them to be?

I'd reckon you'd be hard pressed to find a single person that matches every quality/belief you imagined them to have.

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